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A model of neural impulse firing and synthesis
Author(s)Thomas Saaty
Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business
University of Pittsburgh
United States
Luis Vargas
Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business
University of Pittsburgh
United States
Publication date: Jun, 1993
Journal: Journal of Mathematical PsychologyVol.: 37- Issue: 2- Pages: 200-219
Abstract: Neurons are decision makers that decide from instant to instant whether to fire or not to fire based on information received through neurotransmitter electric charge. In firing they accomplish two goals. First, they pass information to other neurons which in their turn make a decision to fire or not to fire. Second, their firing serves to express or posit electrically a part of the information received and highlighted—perhaps also modified by memory and other previously learned information based on what each neuron is best specialized to do. By receiving information from many neurons and firing, a neuron synthesizes this variety of signals to a new signal that is an amalgam of the old ones. How do these signals develop, how are they synthesized, and can they be used to crate meaning from sense data is the concern of this work.
Keywords: Neurons, Synthesis