Theory of Connectivity: Nature and Nurture of Cell Assemblies and Cognitive Computation

Richard Semon and Donald Hebb are among the firsts to put forth the notion of cell assembly – a group of coherently or sequentially-activated neurons– to represent percept, memory, or concept. Despite the rekindled interest in this age-old idea, the concept of cell assembly still remains ill-define...

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Main Authors: Meng eLi, Jun eLiu, Joe Z Tsien
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-04-01
Series:Frontiers in Neural Circuits
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fncir.2016.00034/full