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Hallucinations and acetylcholine: Signal or noise?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 June 2005

Anita A. Disney*
Affiliation:
Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York, NY10003
Simon R. Schultz*
Affiliation:
Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research, University College London, London, WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom; Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London, London, WC1N 3AR, United Kingdom

Abstract:

The cholinergic system is a good candidate for the role of determining the relative weight given in cortical information processing to new sensory information versus prior knowledge. We discuss the physiological data supporting this, and suggest that this Bayesian perspective can easily be reconciled with the dynamical framework proposed by Behrendt & Young (B&Y).

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2004

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