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The dual processes of abstraction and of association described in the last chapter result in an immense number of engrams represented anatomically throughout the brain. Whether these engrams exist as reverberatory circuits (Hebb, 1949), as specific patterns of neurons differentially activated (Erickson, 1984), as diffuse field effects (John et al., 1973), or indeed in still some other physiological structure, is not critical to our considerations at this point. What seems true almost beyond question is that engrams, regardless of their nature, must have a diffuse representation ultimately incorporating all of the neocortex.
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Kissin, B. (1986). Language and the Higher Cognitive Processes. In: Conscious and Unconscious Programs in the Brain. Psychobiology of Human Behavior, vol 1. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2187-3_5
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