Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Table of Contents - 2010 - Volume 33, Issue 04  

Open Peer Commentary

How and over what timescales does neural reuse actually occur?

Francesco Donnarummaa1, Roberto Prevetea1 and Giuseppe Trautteura1

a1 Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche, Università di Napoli Federico II, Complesso Universitario Monte Sant'Angelo, I-80126 Napoli, Italy. donnarumma@na.infn.it prevete@na.infn.it trau@na.infn.it http://vinelab.na.infn.it

Abstract

We isolate some critical aspects of the reuse notion in Anderson's massive redeployment hypothesis (MRH). We notice that the actual rearranging of local neural circuits at a timescale comparable with the reactivity timescale of the organism is left open. We propose the concept of programmable neural network as a solution.

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