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The neurophysiological evidence from the Miyashita groups's experiment
s on monkeys as well as cognitive experience common to us all suggests
that local neuronal spike rate distributions might persist in the abs
ence of their eliciting stimulus. In Hebb's cell-assembly theory, lear
ning dynamics stabilize such self-maintaining reverberations. Quasi-qu
antitive modeling of the experimental data on internal representation
in association-cortex modules identifies the reverberations (delay spi
ke activity) as the internal code (representation). This leads to cogn
itive and neurophysiological predictions, many following directly from
the language used to describe the activity in the experimental delay
period, others from the details of how the model captures the properti
es of the internal representations.