Cell Assemblies
- Cell Assemblies (CAs) are both a Neural concept and a Psychological
concept.
- CAs are used to describe how Pscyhological phenomena emerge from
neural phenomena.
- CAs are sets of neurons that can maintain firing.
- When they are firing they are in some sort of short term memory.
- The process of learning those items, typically by synaptic
weight modification, is long term memory. (All the learning
rules we use are Hebbian.)
- The networks shown above don't seem to do very well with
CAs.
- They work for their tasks, but the things that we call CAs in
them don't behave like CAs should behave.
