Ben Goertzel (1994) Periodic Brain Responses and Beyond
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Psycoloquy 5(51): Periodic Brain Responses and Beyond
PERIODIC BRAIN RESPONSES AND BEYOND
Commentary on Pulvermueller et al. on Brain-Rhythms
Ben Goertzel
Computer Science Department
Waikato University
Hamilton, New Zealand
goertzel@waikato.ac.nz
Abstract
In demonstrating the presence of cell assemblies for word
recognition, Pulvermueller et al. (1994) have taken a large step
forward. However, because of the extreme simplicity of their
examples, they have avoided dealing with the central issue of the
cell assembly theory: the question of knowledge representation.
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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