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We could recently show that stimulus-specific oscillatory activities of 35–80 Hz are synchronized among distributed cell assemblies of the same and of different areas of cat visual cortex. Such synchronizations are proposed to support pre-attentive feature grouping: cells that are activated by the same visual object synchronize their activities and by this means the object is labeled as a coherent entity. In the present investigation signal dynamics and interactions of stimulus-locked and stimulus-induced oscillatory synchronization processes are analyzed. Further indications were obtained how and when oscillatory activities are generated, synchronized, desynchronized and inhibited under stimulus control. Such processes are analyzed in neural network models and their relevance for natural vision is discussed.
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Eckhorn, R., Schanze, T. (1991). Possible Neural Mechanisms of Feature Linking in the Visual System: Stimulus-Locked and Stimulus-Induced Synchronizations. In: Babloyantz, A. (eds) Self-Organization, Emerging Properties, and Learning. NATO ASI Series, vol 260. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3778-6_5
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