Abstract In this work, we present the mathematical formulation and numerical implementation of a new model for initially straight, transversely isotropic rods. By adopting configuration space that intrinsically avoids shear deformations by systemically neglecting energetic contribution due to torsion, proposed admits an unconstrained variational statement. Moreover, as natural state rod is triv...

Recently a feed-forward model was put forward to account for the phenomenon of context correlations (observed by Miyashita and by Yakovlev et al) to replace the attractor picture developed for these findings. It is argued that the new proposal misses the main issues posed by the experimental situation as well as the salient aspects of the attractor scenario, which combines delay activity neural...