Feature binding as neuron synchronization: quantum aspects

AUTOR(ES)

Arecchi, F. Tito

FONTE

Brazilian Journal of Physics

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2005-06

RESUMO

Feature binding denotes how a large collection of coupled neurons combines external signals with internal memories into new coherent patterns of meaning. An external stimulus spreads over an assembly of coupled neurons, building up a corresponding collective state. Thus, the synchronization of spike trains of many individual neurons is the basis of a coherent perception. Homoclinic chaos has been proposed as the most suitable way to code information in time by trains of equal spikes occurring at apparently erratic times; a new quantitative indicator, called propensity, is introduced to select the most appropriate neuron model. In order to classify the set of different perceptions, the percept space is given a metric structure. The distance in percept space is conjugate to the duration of the perception in the sense that an uncertainty relation in percept space is associated with time limited perceptions. Thus coding of different percepts by synchronized spike trains entails fundamental quantum features with a quantum constant related to the details of the perceptual chain and very different from Planck's action.

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