Yes, the CLA is based on this idea, and results are consistent with the CLA.
People like Bartlett Mel have been arguing for this idea for years. The idea is not new. What appears new in this research is they measured affects in live animals, some of which were awake, and they showed how it makes a difference in visual perception. (It is hard to do these kind of experiments in intact animals, usually they use slices of brain tissue.) But the idea is old. There are many journal articles about minute details of dendritic spikes. The CLA is the only model I am aware of that takes advantage of this effect. I spoke to Mel a month ago and asked if he knew of any others and he said he didn't. Jeff From: nupic [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chetan Surpur Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2013 2:02 PM To: NuPIC general mailing list. Subject: [nupic-dev] "Evidence that dendrites actively process information in the brain" What do you guys make of this news? Does it fit with the cortical model we're basing the CLA off of? http://www.kurzweilai.net/evidence-that-dendrites-actively-process-informati on-in-the-brain
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