István Bókkon: Chemical and bioengineer, PhD doctorandus at Semmelweis University,

Associate professor at Vision Research Institute, 428 Great Road Suite 11, Acton, MA 01720 USA

Member of the Hungarian Biochemical Society, Member of Biophysical Society (USA) www.biophysics.org, Member of the Editorial Board of Activitas Nervosa Superior,

I deal with the natural biophysical substrate of visual perception and visual imagery. The main goal of my research is to prove that intrinsic pictures can be emerged by redox and biophoton processes in retinotopically organized  neurons of visual areas during visual imagery, visual hallucination, and REM dream pictures within the brain. You can  download and read my papers on this website from MENU.

Kosslyn's reality simulation principle states that visual mental imagery mimics the corresponding events in the world. However, my concept of intrinsic biophysical visual virtual reality (by bioluminescent photons and iterative processes) in early retinotopic areas may be nothing else than the first possible biophysical basis of the reality simulation principle. 

I hope that my researcher of biophysical picture representation can bring a brand new ways in the brain and cellular researchers, visual prosthesis, and artificial intelligence in the future. I can explain numerous brain related phenomena by  biophysical picture representation model in a convergent manner (such as: phosphenes, negative afterimages, saccades, blind sight, visual imagery and perception, REM dream pictures, visual hallucination, autism, savant skill, some color illusions, synaesthesia, etc.

I do not claim to solve the secret of consciousness, but propose that the evolution in the higher levels of complexity made possible the emergence of intrinsic picture representation of the external visual world by regulated redox and bioluminescent biophotons in the visual system during visual perception and visual imagery. Please, send me an email if you are interested in any collaboration! Contact: bokkoni@yahoo.com

I am looking for collaboration to perform TMS or fMRI experiments.

NEWS: Salari V, Tuszynski J, Bókkon I, Rahnama M, Cifra M. 2011 On the Photonic Cellular Interaction and the Electric Activity of Neurons in the Human Brain. Journal of Physics: Conference Series. 329 012006. (9th International Fröhlich’s Symposium, Electrodynamic Activity of Living Cells (EDALC11) Click here http://iopscience.iop.org/1742-6596/329/1/012006/pdf/1742-6596_329_1_012006.pdf  and download the paper

NEWS: Bokkon-Tuszynski-Salari Poster 8th EUROPEAN BIOPHYSICS CONGRESS 2011  This poster, titled, Biophysical visual virtual reality in retinotopic visual areas, has been awarded by Biophysical Society (USA) www.biophysics.org

NEWS:Recently we presented (Wang, Bókkon et al. 2011 Brain Res.) the first experimental evidence for the existence of spontaneous and visible light induced ultraweak biophoton emission from in vitro freshly isolated rat’s whole eye, lens, vitreous humor and retina. These results support that the photochemical source of retinal discrete noise, negative afterimages as well as retinal phosphenes could be originated from natural bioluminescent photons within the eyes. Soon we publish a new paper that proves that ocular mechanical pressure can induce biophoton emission from in vitro freshly isolated rat’s whole eye. It seems that retinal phosphenes really due to the biophotons. Since retinal and cortical induced phosphenes are required to have a common molecular biophysical basis, if it can be demonstrated that perception of cortical induced phosphenes is due to bioluminescent photons, intrinsic regulated biophotons in early retinotopic visual system can be seen to serve as a natural biophysical substrate of visual perception and imagery.

Coming papers

Bókkon I, Dai J, Grass F. (2011) Interdisciplinary implications on autism, savantism, Asperger syndrome and the biophysical picture representation: Thinking in pictures Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. Under Review

Bókkon I, Vimal RLP (2011) Subliminal afterimages via ocular delayed luminescence: transsaccade stability of the visual perception and color illusion.  Theory in Biosciences. Under Review

Bókkon I. Mallick B. (2011) Activation of retinotopic areas as central function of REM dream: REM dreams and visual imagery perhaps both co-emerged in evolution.  Under  revision

Bókkon I. Mallick B (2011) Rudimentary biophysical REM dream pictures without visual experiences in congenitally blind. Under preparation for Dreaming journal

Bókkon I, Dai J, et al. (2011) First experimental demonstration of pressure induced photon emission from rat eyes (Toward photobiophysical explanation of retinal phosphenes).  Under experiments

Dotta, Saroka, Persinger. (2011) Increased photon emission from the head while imagining light in the dark is concomitant with changes in electroencephalographic power: Support for the Bόkkon Biophoton Hypothesis. Brain Res Under review

News!!!  I has been invited as a guest editor in Hot Topic Issue of Current Neuropharmacology by Professor Tom Salt, Editor in Chief, Current Neuropharmacology (IF:2,783). Intended title of Hot Topic Issue: Redox age: functional roles of free radicals in neural processes. Please, send me your redox related manuscript (bokkoni@yahoo.com) if you are interested in it.