DESCRIBING LOW LEVEL PSYCHOLOGICAL PHENOMENA THROUGH CELL ASSEMBLIES

摘要

This paper describes how Cell Assemblies (CAs) can be used to model low level psychological phenomena. There is a brief description of CAs and our CANT simulator to ground the discussion. CAs are used to categorise and disambiguate inputs. We describe an simulation that shows CAs can be used to describe pattern disambiguation. It proposes simulations with CAs that can lead to a neurological explanation for timing of categorisation and disambiguation. CAs can also be used to explain priming, and simulations to explore priming at a neural level are proposed.