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it appears that in neuroscience an important theme on the binding
problem (how sensory features are bound together to form a coherent
percept) has emerged from his theory. The theory has also started to
impact the field of perceptual psychology (e.g. see a Nature paper by
M. Usher and N.  Donnelly, recently announced on this list).

The issue of binding is so fundamental that the final judgement on von
der Malsburg's theory is unlikely to be available in the near
future. But one would not dispute that his neural network theory has
generated major impact on neuroscience.


DeLiang Wang 

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