Robert Miller (1994) Cognitive Processing, but not Cell Assembly Ignition
. Psycoloquy: 5(50) Brain Rhythms (2)
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Psycoloquy 5(50): Cognitive Processing, but not Cell Assembly Ignition
COGNITIVE PROCESSING, BUT NOT CELL ASSEMBLY IGNITION
Commentary on Pulvermueller et al. on Brain-Rhythms
Robert Miller
Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology
University of Otago Medical School
Dunedin, New Zealand
ANAT09@rivendell.otago.ac.nz
Abstract
Pulvermueller et al.'s (1994) PSYCOLOQUY target article
provides valuable data about the differential electrographic
responses to word and pseudoword stimuli (found exclusively in the
left hemisphere and presumed to represent a difference in cognitive
processing). It is not clear, however, that this difference is an
indication of cell assembly ignition; and even if it is, the
difference would not be expected to apply selectively to high
frequencies.
Keywords
brain theory, cell assembly, cognition, event related
potentials (ERP), electroencephalograph (EEG), gamma band, Hebb,
language, lexical processing, magnetoencephalography (MEG),
psychophysiology, periodicity, power spectral analysis, synchrony
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