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Information: In the stimulus or in the context?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 1997

Giulio Tononi  and
Gerald M. Edelman
Giulio Tononi
Affiliation:
The Neurosciences Institute, San Diego, CA 92121 tononi@nsi.edu
Gerald M. Edelman
Affiliation:
The Neurosciences Institute, San Diego, CA 92121 tononi@nsi.edu
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Abstract

The distinction between receptive field and conceptual field is appealing and heuristically useful. Conceptually, it is more satisfactory to distinguish between information from the environment and from the brain. We emphasize here a selectionist view that considers information transmission within the brain as modulated by a stimulus, rather than information transmission from a stimulus as modulated by the context.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 20 , Issue 4 , December 1997 , pp. 698 - 700
Copyright
© 1997 Cambridge University Press

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