Cell Assemblies
- Cell Assemblies (CAs) are the neural basis of symbols.
- Hebb came up with the idea in 1949, thus forming the field
of neuropsychology.
- There is a lot of evidence that CAs exist in mammalian brains.
- Change in synaptic strength accounts for learning LTM.
- Neural firing accounts for STM.
- As CAs are the neural basis of symbols, CAs provide a nice bridge
between subsymbolic and symbolic AI.
- We (and others) have shown before that you can learn CAs with
simulated neurons.
- It's not clear if every neuron is part of a CA, but they are
crucial structures in the brain.
