Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Table of Contents - 1997 - Volume 20, Issue 04  


Open Peer Commentary
Quartz & Sejnowski: Cognitive development

'Tis all in pieces (separate RFs and CFs), all coherence gone

Ernst Neibur a1 and Marius Usher a2
a1 Zanvyl Krieger Mind/Brain Institute and Department of Neuroscience, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218 niebur@jhu.edu http://russell.mb.jhu.edu/cns/cnslab.html
a2 Department of Psychology, University of Kent at Canterbury, Canterbury, CT2 7NP, United Kingdom m.usher@ukc.ac.uk http://snipe.ukc.ac.uk/psychology/people/usherm/index.html

Abstract

We argue that the separation between CF (contextual field) and RF (receptive field) in relation to the NMDA (N-methyl-D-aspartate) system is empirically questionable and that it is functionally unnecessary. In addition, the proposed suppression of unexpected information will in many cases be counterproductive.