This work uncovered several salient features of circuit multifunctionality.
The one of salient features of the chaotic circuit is that the circuit with two flexible breakpoints of nonlinear element, and the advantage of the flexible breakpoint is that it increased complexity of the dynamical performance.
In addition to selecting features that are physically conspicuous and salient [3], the attention circuits support visual sampling of the environment by interacting with motivational and emotional systems [4], [5], [6], [7].
Retinal circuits detect salient features of the visual world and report them to the brain through spike trains of retinal ganglion cells.
We introduce wire length as a salient complexity measure for analyzing the circuit complexity of sensory processing in biological neural systems.
Finally, active touch paradigms designed to acquire information needed for tactile discrimination use PPC circuits to direct the hand toward salient features of objects.
However, the circuit mechanisms that mediate and link perception of salient stimuli to execution of an adaptive response are poorly understood.
Attention circuits interact with cognitive and motivational systems to facilitate detection of salient sensory events in the environment.
In addition, they propose that a separate ventral attention system, including the inferior supramarginal gyrus (SMG), posterior superior temporal gyrus/sulcus (STG/pSTS), lateral prefrontal cortex, frontal operculum, and anterior insula, acts as a "circuit breaker," interrupting ongoing processing so that attention can be reoriented to behaviorally salient events (Corbetta et al. 2008).
We proceed with an overview of the salient features of this switch as we vary two kinds of asymmetries: parameter asymmetry, I/P, and circuit asymmetry.
