Communicating “Relatedness” Through Time-Linked Ignitions

It is a safe guess that the old view of the visual cortex, which envisions it as sending no more than a structureless collection of edges and bars to higher cortex, misses something important. It is clear that, in some way, the information stream sent out from the primary cortex must tell the higher cortex how to synthesize those elements into shapes; in other words it must communicate to it, in some form, the relations between the simple figure elements; it must include what may be called the “figural syntax.”