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External regularities and adaptive signal exchanges in the brain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 August 2002

Birgitta Dresp
Affiliation:
LSBMC, IMFS, UMR 7507, Université Louis Pasteur – Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Strasbourg, [email protected]

Abstract

Shepard's concept of internalization does not suggest mechanisms which help to understand how the brain adapts to changes, how representations of a steadily changing environment are updated or, in short, how brain learning continues throughout life. Neural mechanisms, as suggested by Barlow, may prove a more powerful alternative. Brain theories such as Adaptive Resonance Theory (ART) propose mechanisms to explain how representational activities may be linked in space and time. Some predictions of ART are confirmed by psychophysical and neurophysiological data. [Barlow; Shepard]

Type
Brief Report
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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