Spontaneous Activation
- Richard Bowles (my PhD student) and I then produced some
work on
Spontaneous Activation though
its just coming out in Journal of Cognitive Systems
- The idea is that in the brain, neurons occasionally fire
despite having no external stimulus.
- Roughly we showed that:
- Spontaneous activation could set unstimulated regions
to initial base rates.
- CAs could recruit new neurons due to spontaneous
neural activation.
- Spontaneous activation could ignite a CA by itself.
- It also suggested that spontaneous activation could erase
memories, or help them persist.
- Collectively this enables a lot of things to happen including
spreading beyond the basic sensory input.
