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Pointing with focussing devices

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 1997

Wolfram Schultz
Wolfram Schultz
Affiliation:
Institute of Physiology, University of Fribourg, CH-1700 Fribourg, Switzerlandwolfram.schultz@unifr.ch www.unifr.ch/inph/
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Abstract

Evolutionary pressure selects for the most efficient way of information processing by the brain. This is achieved by focussing neuronal processing onto essential environmental objects, by using focussing devices as pointers to different objects rather than reestablishing new representations, and by using external storage bound to internal representations by pointers. Would external storage increase the capacity of cognitive processing?

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 20 , Issue 4 , December 1997 , pp. 755 - 756
Copyright
© 1997 Cambridge University Press

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