Chaotic neuron dynamics, synchronization and feature binding

F.t Arecchi

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2004, vol. 338, issue 1, 218-237

Abstract: Neuroscience studies how a large collection of coupled neurons combines external data with internal memories into coherent patterns of meaning. Such a process is called “feature binding”, insofar as the coherent patterns combine together features which are extracted separately by specialized cells, but which do not make sense as isolated items. A powerful conjecture, with experimental confirmation, is that feature binding implies the mutual synchronization of axonal spike trains in neurons which can be far away and yet contribute to a well defined perception by sharing the same time code.

Keywords: Neuron dynamics; Synchronization; Feature binding (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2004.02.045

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