Cell Assemblies
- I think Cell Assemblies (CAs) are key to human an mammalian
cognition.
- A CA is a reverberating circuit that is the neural basis of
concepts. There's pretty solid (but not conclusive) evidence
of this.
- A CA is a long-term memory formed by synaptic modification.
- An ignited CA is a short term (or working) memory item; the psychology
of the difference between the two is still up in the air.
- Hebb came up with CAs in 1949, thus forming neuropsychology, a bridge
bewteen neuro-biology and psychology.
- We (the scientific community) does not have a great model of CAs.
- We (at Middlesex) approximate CAs with binary CAs. That's not
quite right as you'd like the CAs to follow a snoopy curve.
