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Neural mass action is a field of synchronized axonal pulse firings that cortical neurons create and impose on themselves and others by distributed synaptic interactions. Neural mass action combines sensory representations with memories and binds them into percepts.
Basic Features of Mass Action in Neural Populations
Freeman described mass action (FMA) in the nervous system based on electrocorticogram (ECoG) measurements with electrodes implanted on the cortical surface of animals and in human subjects with their consent during epilepsy surgery (Freeman 1975; Barrie et al. 1996; Freeman et al. 2003; Freeman and Kozma 2010). FMA self-organizes the spontaneous cortical background activity at criticality by continuous mutual excitation (positive feedback) among pyramidal cells at intensities related to the degree of arousal. FMA activity is segmented into wave packets by beats in narrowband oscillations that are sustained by inhibition from interneurons (negative feedback). FMA...
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Kozma, R. (2014). Neural Mass Action. In: Jaeger, D., Jung, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Computational Neuroscience. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7320-6_68-3
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