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Essential Components Of TNGS "'The essential components [of the TNGS theory] are (1) the existence of a source of connectional diversity during ontogeny; (2) a set of selection rules for changes in synaptic efficacy within synaptic populations leading to selection and additional variations; (3) the existence of functional reentrant circuits between maps to provide spatiotemporal continuity; (4) the parallel arrangements of such maps to yield classification couples or n-tuples for sampling of independent attributes; and (5) the final construction of global mappings containing motosensory ensembles that are the smallest units capable of perceptual categorization. If our assumptions about the need for any one of these major components are falsified, the theory will be severely weakened.'

Gerald M. Edelman (1987)"