Our brains are amazingly good at associating events. Pictures, sounds, smells, actions, words are all connected together to form the basic fabric of our internal representations. Miyashita’s research group in Japan has performed a series of elegant experiments demonstrating that individual neurons in monkeys’ brains have a remarkable power to form such associations [1-3].
In these experiments, monkeys are presented with a series of abstract patterns such as the ones illustrated in the figure below. Monkeys are trained over the...
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