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Collaborative Cell Assemblies: Building Blocks of Cortical Computation

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The goal of this chapter is to propose a candidate for consideration as a building block of cortical computation. The candidate in question is the collaborative cell assembly (CCA), and I will make the case in the rest of this chapter that the concept provides a unifying framework for accounting for the mechanisms of perceptual “binding” in the sensory areas of the brain, as well as providing a mechanism for the incremental construction of cognitive and language systems from simpler components.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, National University of Ireland, Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland

    Ronan G. Reilly

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  1. Centre of Informatics, SCET, University of Sunderland, St PetersWay, Sunderland SR6 0DD, UK

    Stefan Wermter

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of York, York, Y010 5DD, UK

    Jim Austin

  3. Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation, University of Edinburgh, 5 Forrest Hill, Edinburgh, UK

    David Willshaw

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Reilly, R.G. (2001). Collaborative Cell Assemblies: Building Blocks of Cortical Computation. In: Wermter, S., Austin, J., Willshaw, D. (eds) Emergent Neural Computational Architectures Based on Neuroscience. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2036. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44597-8_12

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