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Holographic brain models are well suited to describe specific brain functions. Central nervous systems and holographic systems both show parallel information processing and non-localized storage in common. To process information both systems use correlation functions suggesting to develop cybernetical brain models in terms of holography. Associative holographic storage is done with two simultaneously existing patterns. They may reconstruct each other mutually. Time-sequentially existing patterns are connected to associative chains, if every two succeeding patterns do exist within a common period of time in order to be stored in pairs. Read out (recall) of associative chains—reconstructing coupled patterns which didn't exist simultaneously—requires advanced holographic techniques. Three different methods are described and tested experimentally. The underlying principles are feedback mechanisms, nonlinearities of the storage material and tridimensional architecture of the voluminous recording medium. Those principles evidently occur in neural storage systems supporting analogous information processing in neural- and holographic systems.
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Wess, O., Röder, U. A holographic model for associative memory chains. Biol. Cybern. 27, 89–98 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00337260
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