Emergence of cognitive priming and structure building from the hierarchical interaction of canonical microcircuit models.

ABSTRACT: The concept of connectionism states that higher cognitive functions emerge from the interaction of many simple elements. Accordingly, research on canonical microcircuits conceptualizes findings on fundamental neuroanatomical circuits as well as recurrent organizational principles of the cerebral cortex and examines the link between architectures and their associated functionality. In this study, we establish minimal canonical microcircuit models as elements of hierarchical processing networks. Based on a combination of descriptive time simulations and explanatory state-space mappings, we show that minimal canonical microcircuits effectively segregate feedforward and feedback information flows and that feedback information conditions basic processing operations in minimal canonical microcir

SUBMITTER: Kunze T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6510829 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature