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Neuronal inference must be local, selective, and coordinated

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2013

William A. Phillips
William A. Phillips*
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Psychology Department, University of Stirling, FK9 4LA Stirling, Scotland, United Kingdom, and Frankfurt Institute of Advanced Studies, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany. wap1@stir.ac.uk http://www.psychology.stir.ac.uk/staff/staff-profiles/honorary-staff/bill-phillips
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Abstract

Life is preserved and enhanced by coordinated selectivity in local neural circuits. Narrow receptive-field selectivity is necessary to avoid the curse-of-dimensionality, but local activities can be made coherent and relevant by guiding learning and processing using broad coordinating contextual gain-controlling interactions. Better understanding of the functions and mechanisms of those interactions is therefore crucial to the issues Clark examines.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 36 , Issue 3 , June 2013 , pp. 222 - 223
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013 

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