(Epistemic fstatus: first thoughts after first reading)
Most is very standard cognitive neuroscience, although with more emphasis on some things (the subdivision of synaptic buttons into silent/modifiable/stable, notion of complex and simple cells in the visual system) than other (the critical periods, brain rhythms, iso/allo cortices, brain symetry and circuits, etc). There’s one bit or two wrong, but that’s nitpicks or my mistake.
The idea of synapses as detecting frequency code is not exactly novel (it is the usual working hypothesis for some synapses in the cerebellum, although the exact code is not known I think), but the idea that it’s a general principle that works because the synapse recognize it’s own noise is either novel or not well known even within cognitive science (it might be a common idea among specialists of synaptic transmission, or original). I feel it promising, like how Hebb has the idea of it’s law.
Can someone with more knowledge give me a sense of how new this idea is, and guess at the probability that it is onto something?
(Epistemic fstatus: first thoughts after first reading)
Most is very standard cognitive neuroscience, although with more emphasis on some things (the subdivision of synaptic buttons into silent/modifiable/stable, notion of complex and simple cells in the visual system) than other (the critical periods, brain rhythms, iso/allo cortices, brain symetry and circuits, etc). There’s one bit or two wrong, but that’s nitpicks or my mistake.
The idea of synapses as detecting frequency code is not exactly novel (it is the usual working hypothesis for some synapses in the cerebellum, although the exact code is not known I think), but the idea that it’s a general principle that works because the synapse recognize it’s own noise is either novel or not well known even within cognitive science (it might be a common idea among specialists of synaptic transmission, or original). I feel it promising, like how Hebb has the idea of it’s law.