A solution to the binding problem? Information processing.
The brain effortlessly recombines information about the shape, colour, motion and so on of objects in the visual scene, but how it does so is not known. Synchronous neuronal firing has seemed an attractive solution to this problem, but new results and theoretical insights cast doubt on its functional role.
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Neural Systems Group, Department of Psychology, Ridley Building, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK.
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D005074:Evoked Potentials, Visual; D006801:Humans; D014793:Visual Cortex / Q000502:physiology*