Better Cell Assemblies

Hebb published the idea of Cell Assemblies (CAs) in 1949, and it's largely agreed that we have them.

If you have a concept, say cat, it is represented by a CA.

CAs are thus central to neuropsychology, and biological cognitive architectures.

CAs are sets of neurons that can fire persistently, are learned, fire synchronously, and are each a relatively small subset of all the neurons.

The problem is that our models using simulated neurons do not do a very good job of implementing CAs.