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In this paper we revisit the classical works of Cajal, Lorente de No, Lashley, Wiener and McCulloch exploring the conjecture of considering the informational loop (feedback loop of messages) as the basic functional module in the organization of the NS, well understood that the anatomical loops are always underlying these informational loops, that corresponds to specific circular patterns of spatio-temporal signals invariant under certain groups of transformations. We introduce the concepts of role, context, and inference structure and explore dynamic memory mechanisms as oscillation modes.
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Mira, J., Delgado, A.E. (1999). Reverberating loops of information as a dynamic mode of functional organization of the N. S.: A working conjecture. In: Mira, J., Sánchez-Andrés, J.V. (eds) Foundations and Tools for Neural Modeling. IWANN 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1606. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0098156
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