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PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON SERIES B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Volume 355, Issue 1394, Pages 237-252Publisher
ROYAL SOC LONDON
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2000.0561
Keywords
neuronal transients; complexity; functional integration; neural codes; selection; self-organization
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The successive expression of neuronal transients is related to dynamic correlations and, as shown in this paper; to dynamic instability. Dynamic instability is a form of complexity typical of neuronal systems, which may be crucial for adaptive brain function from two perspectives. The first is from the point of view of neuronal selection and self-organizing systems: if selective mechanisms underpin the emergence of adaptive neuronal responses then dynamic instability is, itself, necessarily adaptive. This is because dynamic instability is the source of diversity on which selection acts and is therefore subject to selective pressure. In short, the emergence of order, through selection, depends almost paradoxically on the instabilities that characterize the diversity of brain dynamics. The second perspective is provided by information theory.
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