ABSTRACT
When looking at an attractive scene, such as a garden, the viewer has an awareness of particular trees, shrubs and perhaps even flowers. Thomas Young conceived the idea that the neocortex might be thought of as being made up largely of neuronal groups. A neuronal group can be identified functionally by means of electrical recordings. Gerald Edelman has argued at length that neuronal groups are to be considered as building blocks in the solution of binding problems. Wolfgang Singer has provided evidence that there is a dynamic coupling of appropriate neuronal groups in the neocortex with the solution of a binding problem. Singer has also shown that mere is interhemispheric synchronization of activity in the visual cortex when a binding problem is being solved for a visual object. Several plausible models are now available that explain how dynamic coupling between neuronal groups might arise during solution of the binding problem by the neocortex.
