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Synchronicity and its use in the brain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 1997

Guenther Palm  and
Thomas Wennekers
Guenther Palm
Affiliation:
Department of Neural Information Processing, University of Ulm, D-89069 Ulm, Germanypalm@neuro.informatik.uni-ulm.de www.informatik.uni-ulm.de/ni
Thomas Wennekers
Affiliation:
Department of Neural Information Processing, University of Ulm, D-89069 Ulm, Germanypalm@neuro.informatik.uni-ulm.de www.informatik.uni-ulm.de/ni
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Abstract

We briefly review the long-standing ideas about the use of synchronicity in the brain, which rely on Donald Hebb's views on cell assemblies and synaptic plasticity. More recently the distinction among several timescales in the description of neural activity has become a focus of theoretical discussion. Phillips & Singer's target article is criticized mainly because it does not distinguish these timescales properly and hence does not really address the questions so intensely debated today.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 20 , Issue 4 , December 1997 , pp. 695 - 696
Copyright
© 1997 Cambridge University Press

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