title: Neuronal inference must be local, selective, and coordinated.
abstract: Life is preserved and enhanced by coordinated selectivity in local neural circuits. Narrow receptive-field selectivity is necessary to avoid the curse-of-dimensionality, but local activities can be made coherent and relevant by guiding learning and processing using broad coordinating contextual gain-controlling interactions. Better understanding of the functions and mechanisms of those interactions is therefore crucial to the issues Clark examines.
authors.affiliation: Psychology Department, University of Stirling, FK9 4LA Stirling, Scotland, United Kingdom. wap1@stir.ac.uk
authors.forename: William A
authors.initials: WA
authors.lastname: Phillips
mesh_terms: D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology*; D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology*; D019336:Cognitive Science / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D010465:Perception / Q000502:physiology*