Cell Assemblies
- Cell Assemblies (CAs) are the neural basis of concepts,
words, visual memories, notes, and other primitives.
- They're sets of neurons that have high connectivity (number
and value).
- Each CA has a relatively small number of neurons (1000s to maybe
a million).
- A CA can remain active after sensation ceases.
- It's learned.
- If you don't by Hebb's hypothesis from 1949, see a draft of my
review paper or (Harris 2005 Nature) or (Pulvermuller 1999 BBS).
- Hopfield models of stable states are frequently used as models
of CAs.
- The CA itself is a long-term memory, and activating the circuit
is a short-term memory.
