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    Computation with chaos: A paradigm for cortical activity

                  A. Babloyantz and C. Louren\c{c}o

   Service de Chimie-Physique, Universit\'{e} Libre de Bruxelles
        CP 231 - Campus Plaine, Boulevard du Triomphe
               B-1050~Bruxelles, Belgium
            e-mail: carlos at cenoli.ulb.ac.be

Abstract: A device comprising two interconnected networks of
oscillators exhibiting spatiotemporal chaos is considered.
An external cue stabilizes input specific unstable periodic orbits
of the first network thus creating an ``attentive'' state.
Only in this state is the device able to perform pattern discrimination
and motion detection. We discuss the relevance of the procedure to the
information processing of the brain.

This paper appeared in Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Vol. 91, p. 9027,
13 September 1994.

Thanks to Jordan Pollack for maintaining the archive.

          Carlos Louren\c{c}o

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