@article {PUBA284,
	title = {Cell assemblies in the cerebral cortex},
	author = {G{\"u}nther Palm AND Andreas Knoblauch AND Florian Hauser AND Almut Sch{\"u}z},
	year = {2014},
	abstract = {Donald Hebb{\textquoteright}s concept of cell assemblies is a physiology-based    idea    for    a    distributed    neural representation of behaviorally relevant objects, concepts, or  constellations.  In the  late  70s  Valentino  Braitenberg started the endeavor to spell out the hypothesis that the cerebral cortex is the structure where cell assemblies are formed, maintained and used, in terms of neuroanatomy (which was his main concern) and also neurophysiology. 
This endeavor has been carried on over the last 30 years corroborating most of his findings and interpretations. In particular, the cortex may be considered as a network of associative   memories   with   enormous   computational power.},
	publisher = {Springer},
	journal = {Biological Cybernetics}
}