From: Patricia Goldman-Rakic <psgold_email.med.yale.edu>
Reply-To: patricia.goldman-rakic_yale.edu
To: yh_maldoo.com
Subject: Re: A role for inhibition in shaping the te...
Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2002 18:19:33 -0500
Dear Yehuda: I am sorry that you have found our paper so banal; I am not aware of any previous study that has shown a specific content-dependent mechanism for temporal integration in a cognitive task. There are, however, many assumptions, lots of anatomy but little "online" physiological data. . If there are such studies, we would be pleased to hear of them. Perhaps we were not explicit enough about this valuable finding and I will certainly take your comment into account as we develop our theory of how cognitive networks actually work.
Patricia Goldman-Rakic
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Subject:A role for inhibition in shaping the te...
Comment:
The last sentence of the abstract of your last Nature Neuroscience article says:
"These findings suggest an important role of inhibition in the cerebral cortex -- controlling the timing of neuronal activities during cognitive operations and thereby shaping the temporal flow of information."In what sense is this different from what was known until now?
As far as I know, all the neurons in the cortex affect the "timing of neuronal activities during cognitive operations", and that is all that they do.
Thanks,
Yehouda Harpaz