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Construction of concepts by the nervous system: From neurons to cognition

✍ Scribed by G. Werner; H. J. Reitboeck; R. Eckhorn

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1993
Tongue
English
Weight
728 KB
Volume
38
Category
Article
ISSN
8756-6079

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✦ Synopsis

Neurophysiological studies have recently identified a pattern of synchronized slow-wave activity in the visual cortex which characteristically encompasses groups of neurons activated by similar or closely related stimulus attributes. This slow-wave activity appears to tag clusters of neurons to form aggregates representing in their totality more complex, higher-order stimulus attributes across dieparate positions in the cortical representation. The notion is advanced that the function of these aggregates is analogous to that ascribed to the subsymbolic computational level in connectionist networks. On this basis, the argument i s presented that the synchronized cortical activity is an important aspect of the construction of symbolic representation by the nervous system and, thus, a step from neural information processing to the symbolic processes stipulated by classical cognitivism.

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