"The binding problem—how to bind all the neurons firing to different features of the same object (or event), especially when more than one object is perceived... Binding is important because it seems necessary for at least some types or awareness. ...it was suggested that binding might be achieved by the correlated firing of the neurons concerned. A rather simple kind of correlated firing is that the neurons involved fire together in some sort of rhythm."
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