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Proceedings of the 2012 International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and its Applications

2012

Session Number:B1L-B

Session:

Number:300

Learning and memory phenomena in a complex sensory environment: a neuroheuristic approach

J. Cabessa,  Y. Asai,  J. Iglesias,  P. Dutoit,  A. Lintas,  A.E.P. Villa,  

pp.300-303

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Online ISSN:2188-5079

DOI:10.15248/proc.1.300

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The concept of interdependent communications systems and Wiener's assertion that a machine that changes its responses based on feedback is a machine that learns, defines the brain as a cybernetic machine. Systems theory has traditionally focused on the structure of systems and their models, whereas cybernetics has focused on how systems function, how they control their actions, how they communicate with other systems or with their own components. However, structure and function of a system cannot be understood in separation and cybernetics and systems theory should be viewed as two facets of a single approach, defined as the neuroheuristic approach.

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