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The traditional view of sensory cortical processing is that of static parallel local cortical circuits detecting or signalling specific local features or feature gradients (e.g. [1]). Global processing in this view occurs by somehow comparing “linking features” in areas that he more central in the cortical hierarchy. It is more and more realized, however, that this view is oversimplified and possibly not correct. On the one hand the hierarchical scheme is contradicted by growing evidence that even at the presumed-lowest level in the hierarchy, such as the primary auditory or visual cortices, global stimulus features are of importance to the activity patterns [2–4], and even behavioral characteristics influence responses [5–7]. On the other hand there is growing evidence that neuronal connections are far from being static.
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van Dijk, B.W. (1995). Synchrony and Fast Plasticity in the Visual Cortex. In: Kappen, B., Gielen, S. (eds) Neural Networks: Artificial Intelligence and Industrial Applications. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3087-1_2
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