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Not the module does memory make – but the network

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Joaquin M. Fuster
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry and Brain Research Institute, School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095. joaquin%chango.dnet@loni.ucla.edu

Abstract

This commentary questions the target articles inferences from a limited set of empirical data to support this model and conceptual scheme. Especially questionable is the attribution of internal representation properties to an assembly of cells in a discrete cortical module firing at a discrete attractor frequency. Alternative inferences are drawn from cortical cooling and cell-firing data that point to the internal representation as a broad and specific cortical network defined by cortico-cortical connectivity. Active memory, it is proposed, consists in the sustained activation of the component neuron populations of the network.

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Open Peer Commentary
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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