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The form of chaos in the noisy brain can manifest function

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Ichiro Tsuda
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060 Japan. tsuda@math.hokudai.ac.jp

Abstract

I would like to emphasize the significance of chaotic dynamics at both local and macroscopic levels in the cortex. The basic notions dealt with in this commentary will be noise-induced order, chaotic “itinerancy” and dissipative structure. Wright & Laley's theory would be partially misleading, since emergent nonlinearity rather than the linearity at even a macroscopic level can actually subserve cortical functions.

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Open Peer Commentary
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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