Topic: finite state machine

Assemblies are subsets of neurons whose coordinated excitation could represent the subject's thinking of an object, idea, episode, or word, and so they provide a promising basis for a theory of how neurons and synapses give rise to higher-level cognitive phenomena. This key role of assemblies was hypothesized by the pioneering work of Hebb, while progress in neural recording technology in recent years has allowed their existence to be experimentally verified. Recent studies have documented the creation and activation of assemblies of neurons in sequence, especially after being trained on tasks