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Regularities, context, and neural coding: Are universals reflected in the experienced world?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 August 2002

Antonino Raffone ,
Marta Olivetti Belardinelli  and
Cees van Leeuwen
Antonino Raffone
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Sunderland, St. Peter's Campus, SR6 0DD Sunderland, United [email protected]
Marta Olivetti Belardinelli
Affiliation:
ECONA-Interuniversity Centre for Research on Cognitive Processing in Natural and Artificial Systems, I 00185 Rome, [email protected]
Cees van Leeuwen
Affiliation:
RIKEN BSI, 2-1 Hirosawa, Saitama 351–0198, [email protected]
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Abstract

Barlow's concept of the exploitation of environmental statistical regularities may be more plausibly related to brain mechanisms than Shepard's notion of internalisation. In our view, Barlow endorses a bottom-up approach to neural coding and processing, whereas we suggest that feedback interactions in the visual system, as well as chaotic correlation dynamics in the brain, are crucial in exploiting and assimilating environmental regularities. We also discuss the “conceptual tension” between Shepard's ideas of law internalisation and evolutionary adaptation. [Barlow; Shepard]

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 24 , Issue 4 , August 2001 , pp. 701 - 702
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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