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ArticleCurrent opinion in behavioral sciences2024

Cognition is an emergent property.

Earl K Miller, Scott L Brincat, Jefferson E Roy

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Article in Current opinion in behavioral sciences, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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16 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Earl K MillerThe Picower Institute for Learning & Memory and Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
Scott L BrincatThe Picower Institute for Learning & Memory and Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
Jefferson E RoyThe Picower Institute for Learning & Memory and Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

Funding

Interhemispheric coordination and transfer of visual informationR01EY033430 · NEI · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI MILLER, EARL K · 2022 to 2025
$1.5M
Layer-specific manipulation to test feedforward/feedback cortical circuitryR01MH131715 · NIMH · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI EARL K MILLER · 2023 to 2026
$1.2M
NEI NIH HHS R01 EY033430NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH131715
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cognition relies on the flexible organization of neural activity. In this discussion, we explore how many aspects of this organization can be described as emergent properties, not reducible to their constituent parts. We discuss how electrical fields in the brain can serve as a medium for propagating activity nearly instantaneously, and how population-level patterns of neural activity can organize computations through subspace coding.

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PMID39651342
PMCPMC11623317

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