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Content and Context in Temporal Thalamocortical Binding

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Temporal Coding in the Brain

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Given that sensory systems generate but a fractured representation of universals, the issue of perceptual unity has been approached by defining the mechanisms by which different sensory components are gathered into one global image. In recent years, this has been described as “binding,” and has been thought to be implemented by temporal conjunction (Bienenstock and von der Malsburg 1986, von der Malsburg 1981; Crick and Koch 1990; Llinás 1990).

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience, Rutgers University, 197 University Avenue, Newark, NJ, 07102, USA

    G. Buzsáki Ph. D.

  2. Department of Physiology and Biophysics, New York University Medical Center, 550 First Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, USA

    R. Llinás Ph.D.

  3. Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Deutschordenstr. 46, D-60528, Frankfurt/Main, Germany

    W. Singer Ph.D.

  4. Laboratoire de Physiologie de la Perception et de l’Action, Collège de France-CNRS, 15, rue de l’Ecole de Medecine, F-75270, Paris Cedex 06, France

    A. Berthoz Ph. D.

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    Y. Christen Ph. D.

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Llinas, R., Ribary, U., Joliot, M., Wang, XJ. (1994). Content and Context in Temporal Thalamocortical Binding. In: Buzsáki, G., Llinás, R., Singer, W., Berthoz, A., Christen, Y. (eds) Temporal Coding in the Brain. Research and Perspectives in Neurosciences. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-85148-3_14

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