Time as Coding Space in Neocortical Processing: A Hypothesis

Most perceptual objects can be decomposed into components and, in general, the features of these components are not unique for a particular object. The individuality of objects results from the specific composition of elementary features and their relations rather than from the specificity of the component features. Hence, for a versatile representation of sensory patterns in the nervous system, three basic functions have to be accomplished: 1) elementary features need to be represented by neuronal responses, 2) responses to features constituting a particular object have to be distinguished and bound together in a flexible way, and 3) the specific relations among these features have to be encoded and preserved.

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