Neural Darwinism: selection and reentrant signaling in higher brain function.

By Gerald M. Edelman. 1993

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MERLOT RESERVE: Neural Script Knowledge through Vision and Language and Sound (2022, background): “Reentry has been hypothesized by developmental psychologists to be crucial for how we as humans learn visual and world knowledge, much of it without need for an explicit teacher [88, 35, 19, 100].”
Hierarchical Models in the Brain (2008, background): “The encoding of generalised motion may mean that we represent paths or trajectories of sensory dynamics over short periods of time and that there is no perceptual instant (c.f., the remembered present; [50]).”
Measuring information integration (2003, background): “Consistent with these theoretical considerations, perceptual, attentional, and executive functions carried out by the thalamocortical system rely on reentrant interactions [30], show context-dependency [30-32], call for global access [10,11], require that top down predictions are refined against inc”
Learning and inference in the brain (2003, background): “These representations induce and maintain themselves, across and within all levels of the sensory hierarchy, through dynamic and reentrant interactions (Edelman, 1993).”
Unified-IO 2: Scaling Autoregressive Multimodal Models with Vision, Language, Audio, and Action (2023, background): “Psychologists have argued that the redundancy of our sensory systems serves as supervisory mechanisms to improve each other [48, 144, 167].”
Biology of Consciousness (2010, background): “Neural Darwinism, or the theory of neuronal group selection, is just such a theory (Edelman, 1987, 1993).”
Modelling event-related responses in the brain (2005, background): “In this context, late response components in higher cortical areas can reenter (Edelman, 1993) lower levels engendering complicated and realistic impulse response functions.”
Free-energy and the brain (2007, background): “the life time of the organism) or evolutionary timescales ( Edelman 1993 ).”
A network of occipito-temporal face-sensitive areas besides the right middle fusiform gyrus is necessary for normal face processing. (2003, background): “…hypothesis perfectly compatible with the concurrent and distributed processing of information (Felleman and Van Essen, 1991; De Yoe et al., 1994) as well as the presence of feedback (Lamme and Roelfsema, 2000; Bullier, 2001) and re-entrant phasic signalling (Edelman, 1993) in the visual cortex.”
A synaptic organizing principle for cortical neuronal groups (2011, background): “A key difference between Edelman’s (67, 68) theory and Hebb’s (1) proposals is reflected by Edelman’s emphasis on selection, as apposed to instruction, of repertoires of neuronal groups iteratively during perception in a process called reentry (67, 68).”
Training attentional control and working memory - Is younger, better? (2012, background): “…Haist, & Courchesne, 2008), and also in terms of reorganisation following acquired damage early in life (e.g. Spencer-Smith et al., 2011) is leading to a better appreciation that postnatal cortical development is a non-stationary, dynamic process (see also Edelman, 1993; Quartz & Sejnowski, 1997).”
A free energy principle for the brain. (2006, background): “, the life time of the organism) or evolutionary timescales (Edelman, 1993).”