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Neural mechanism for the magical number 4: Competitive interactions and nonlinear oscillation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 October 2001

Marius Usher ,
Jonathan D. Cohen ,
Henk Haarmann  and
David Horn
Marius Usher
Affiliation:
School of Psychology, Birkbeck College, University of London, London WCJE 7HX, United Kingdomm.usher@bbk.ac.uk www.psyc.bbk.ac.uk/staff/homepage/mu.html
Jonathan D. Cohen
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544 jdc@princeton.edu
Henk Haarmann
Affiliation:
Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 hhaarmann@hesp.umd.edu www.bsos.umd.edu/hesp/haarmann.html
David Horn
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israelhorn@neuron.tau.ac.il www.neuron.tau.ac.il/~horn
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Abstract

The aim of our commentary is to strengthen Cowan's proposal for an inherent capacity limitation in STM by suggesting a neurobiological mechanism based on competitive networks and nonlinear oscillations that avoids some of the shortcomings of the scheme discussed in the target article (Lisman & Idiart 1995).

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 24 , Issue 1 , February 2001 , pp. 151 - 152
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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