Open Peer Commentary Pulvermüller: Brain's language
Homogeneous neural networks cannot provide complex cognitive functions
Alexey M. Ivanitsky a1andAndrey R. Nikolaev a1 a1 Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 117865, Russia
alivanit@aha.runikolaev@aha.ruwww.psi.med.ru
Abstract
Within the Hebbian paradigm the mechanism for integrating
cell assemblies oscillating with different frequencies remains
unclear. We hypothesize that such an integration may occur in
cortical “interaction foci” that unite synchronously
oscillated assemblies through hard-wired connections, synthesizing the
information from various functional systems of the brain.
