<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear Colleagues,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I am writing to call your attention to the following article because the neural model that it describes links normal category learning and recognition to clinical disorders such as autism and Alzheimer’s disease, topics that are currently of great interest and concern. The clinical links emerged after the neural dynamics of vigilance control during normal category learning was sufficiently understood. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="" style="font-family: ArialMT;">Grossberg, S. (2017). Acetylcholine neuromodulation in normal and abnormal learning and memory:</div><div class="" style="font-family: ArialMT;">Vigilance control in waking, sleep, autism, amnesia, and Alzheimer’s disease.</div><div class="" style="font-family: ArialMT;"><i class="">Frontiers in Neural Circuits, November 2, 2017, </i><a href="https://doi.org/10.3389/fncir.2017.00082" class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; outline: none; word-break: break-word; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><font color="#000000" class="">https://doi.org/10.3389/fncir.2017.00082</font></a></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="" style="font-family: ArialMT;"><div class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class=""><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px;"><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;"><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div class="" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px;">Best,</div><div class="" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px;">Steve</div></div></span></div></span></div></div></div></div></div><div apple-content-edited="true" class="" style="font-family: ArialMT;"><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px;"><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;"><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div class="" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px;">Stephen Grossberg</div><div class=""><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Grossberg" class="">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Grossberg</a></div><div class=""><a href="http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=3BIV70wAAAAJ&hl=en" class="">http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=3BIV70wAAAAJ&hl=en</a></div></div></span></div></span><a href="https://youtu.be/9n5AnvFur7I" class="" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;">https://youtu.be/9n5AnvFur7I</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; orphans: 2; widows: 2; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px;"><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><br class="">Wang Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems<br class="">Professor of Mathematics & Statistics, Psychological & Brain Sciences, and Biomedical Engineering<br class="">Director, Center for Adaptive Systems<br class=""><a href="http://cns.bu.edu/~steve" class="">http://cns.bu.edu/~steve</a><br class=""><a href="mailto:steve@bu.edu" class="">steve@bu.edu</a></div></span></div></span></div></div></div></div></body></html>