Democratic Integration: A Theory of Adaptive Sensory Integration

  • Authors:
  • Jochen Triesch

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • Democratic Integration: A Theory of Adaptive Sensory Integration
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

The human brain has to integrate the inputs it receives from different sensory modalities into a coherent description of its environment. This integration is often adaptive, showing recalibration or suppression of discordant sensory modalities. This paper proposes a qualitative theory of sensory integration which relates these adaptation phenomena to the anatomy of the neocortex and a rapid reversible synaptic mechanism as proposed in von der Malsburg''s correlation theory of brain function.