The Correlation Theory of Brain Function

Malsburg, Christoph von der

doi:10.1007/978-1-4612-4320-5_2

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“…In concluding, we suggest that these findings provide insights that are distinct and complementary to a surge of recent interest in compositionality (Werning et al, 2012), including studies on the neural bases of compositional processes (Bemis & Pylkkänen, 2011;Ding et al, 2015;Frankland & Greene, 2015), and Bayesian models that approach the problem using Marr's socalled computational level of analysis (Goodman, Tenenbaum, Feldman, & Griffiths, 2008;Piantadosi, Goodman, Ellis, & Tenenbaum, 2008). Our findings can help bridge these perspectives: The binding schemes suggested by this data reside at Marr's algorithmic level, i.e., mechanisms for implementing computational analyses in a way that might be neurally achievable.…”

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“…The concepts can be composed together (i.e., bound) through their simultaneous co-activation (so-called temporal binding). The key idea, which has its roots in the "binding by synchrony" hypothesis from visual attention (Singer & Gray, 1995;Von Der Malsburg, 1984), is that composed concepts like pink tree might be represented in a neural network by simultaneously activating nodes for the constituent concepts, i.e., pink and tree (Hummel & Holyoak, 1997).…”

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“…Work in linguistic semantics, philosophy, and psychology has considerably advanced our understanding of how complex concepts, such as the meanings of phrases, might be built from their component parts (Heim & Kratzer, 1998;Pylkkänen & McElree, 2006;Werning, Hinzen, & Machery, 2012). This has included discoveries about the role of broader world knowledge in interpreting the meanings of phrases (Barner & Snedeker, 2008;Springer & Murphy, 1992), and about the neural implementation of combinatorial operations (Bemis & Pylkkänen, 2011;Frankland & Greene, 2015;Pylkkänen & McElree, 2007).…”

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Representing composed meanings through temporal binding

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Doumas

Bemis³

2017

Cognition

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A key feature of human thought and language is compositionality, the ability to bind pre-existing concepts and word meanings together in order to express new ideas. Here we ask how newly composed complex concepts are mentally represented and matched to the outside world, by testing whether it is harder to verify if a picture matches the meaning of a phrase, like big pink tree, than the meaning of a single word, like tree. Five sentence-picture verification experiments provide evidence that, in fact, the meaning of a phrase can often be checked just as fast as the meaning of one single word (and sometimes faster), indicating that the phrase's constituent concepts can be represented and checked in parallel. However, verification times were increased when matched phrases had more complex modification structures, indicating that it is costly to represent structural relations between constituent concepts. This pattern of data can be well-explained if concepts are composed together using two different mechanisms, binding by synchrony and binding by asynchrony, which have been suggested as solutions to the "binding problem" faced in both vision science and higher-level cognition. Our results suggest that they can also explain aspects of compositional language processing. 197 words.

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Representing composed meanings through temporal binding

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Bemis³

2017

Cognition

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“…Here is further food for thoughts coming from the study of brain networks dynamics. It is proposed that synchrony between localized emergent oscillations in the brain is a way to solve the binding problem of integrating segregated sensory features (Gray et al, 1989; von der Malsburg, 1994). Interareal coherence would serve information exchange between neurons and between neurons populations (Bressler et al, 1993).…”

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Challenges for the understanding of the dynamics of social coordination

Lagarde

2013

Front. Neurorobot.

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The way people interact can be examined by looking at the way they move relative to each other. Seeking the principles behind those interactions have consequences potentially related to any type of interpersonal function, far beyond the so-called “motor” processes typically associated with the study of movements, be it perceptive, cognitive, affective, pragmatic, or epistemic. Here, we present the way the framework of coordination dynamics define and addresses the interactive actions in a dyad. We first introduce the basics of pattern formation as the roots of the theoretical approach of coordination dynamics, and then the way this framework may contribute to establish a solution to classify behaviors. Thereafter we review promising empirical results on the dynamics of interpersonal coordination, and finally discuss were to go next to decipher the way the coordination between two people and the way each individual contribute may be disentangled.

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“…A recent concept of information processing in the cortex, extending Hebb's cell assembly concept (Hebb, 1949), stresses the importance of the relative timing of action potentials to express relatedness of responses (von der Malsburg, 1981;Singer et al, 1990). According to this temporal binding hypothesis, neurons belonging to the same assembly should synchronise their responses, while cells belonging to different assemblies should fire asynchronously.…”

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