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Commentary by Frank Ohl

On the Creation of Meaning in the Brain—Cortical Neurodynamics During Category Learning

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Large-scale spatiotemporal activity patterns in neocortex have been observed since the first attempts of simultaneous multichannel recording (e.g. Lilly, Am J Physiol 176:493–504, 1954, [20], Lilly and Cherry, J Neurophysiol 17:521–532, 1954, [21], Lilly and Cherry, J Neurophysiol 18:18–32, 1954, [22]) and are now regularly reported by studies using appropriate techniques on both microscopic Grün and Rotter, Analysis of parallel spike trains, 2010, [12] and macroscopic spatial scales Freeman and Quiroga, Imaging brain function with EEG. Advanced temporal and spatial analysis of electroencephalographic signals, 2013, [10].

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Ohl, F.W. (2016). Commentary by Frank Ohl. In: Cognitive Phase Transitions in the Cerebral Cortex - Enhancing the Neuron Doctrine by Modeling Neural Fields. Studies in Systems, Decision and Control, vol 39. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24406-8_14

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