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Association and computation with cell assemblies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Frank der van Velde
Affiliation:
Unit of Experimental and Theoretical Psychology, Leiden University, 2333 AK Leiden, The Netherlands. vdvelde@hlerul55

Abstract

The cell assembly is an important concept for cognitive psychology. Cognitive processing will to a large extent depend on the relations that can exist between different assemblies. A potential relation between assemblies can already be seen in the occurrence of (classical) conditioning. However, the resulting associations between assemblies only produce behavioristic processing or so-called regular computation. Higher-level cognitive abilities most likely result from nonregular computation. I discuss the possibility of this form of computation in terms of cell assemblies.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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