Collaborative cell assemblies: building blocks of cortical computation

  • Authors:
  • Ronan G. Reilly

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, National University of Ireland, Dublin Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland

  • Venue:
  • Emergent neural computational architectures based on neuroscience
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

The goal of this chapter is to propose a candidate for consideration as a building block of cortical computation. The candidate in question is the collaborative cell assembly (CCA), and I will make the case in the rest of this chapter that the concept provides a unifying framework for accounting for the mechanisms of perceptual "binding" in the sensory areas of the brain, as well as providing a mechanism for the incremental construction of cognitive and language systems from simpler components.