Learnt Novelty with Overlapping Neural Cell Assemblies
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Cell Assemblies (CAs) are central to many higher order cognitive processes such as perception, recognition, and recollection. Concepts are encoded as neuronal CAs in mammalian cortical areas, where CA formation and learning happen based on the Hebbian CA theory. Multiple CAs may share a common subset of neurons that produce dynamics that distinct, localist, orthogonal CAs do not exhibit, such as inherent support for generalisation and learnt novelty. This paper discusses implicit learning of novel behaviour in overlapping CAs, with a simulated agent based on a biologically realistic neural CA model.
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