TY - JOUR T1 - Self-organization of Computation in Neural Systems JF - bioRxiv DO - 10.1101/016725 SP - 016725 AU - Christian Tetzlaff AU - Sakyasingha Dasgupta AU - Tomas Kulvicius AU - Florentin Wörgötter Y1 - 2015/01/01 UR - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2015/03/19/016725.abstract N2 - When learning a complex task our nervous system self-organizes large groups of neurons into coherent dynamic activity patterns. During this, a cell assembly network with multiple, simultaneously active, and computationally powerful assemblies is formed; a process which is so far not understood. Here we show that the com- bination of synaptic plasticity with the slower process of synaptic scaling achieves formation of such assembly networks. This type of self-organization allows executing a difficult, six degrees of freedom, manipulation task with a robot where assemblies need to learn computing complex non-linear transforms and – for execution – must cooperate with each other without interference. This mechanism, thus, permits for the first time the guided self-organization of computationally powerful sub-structures in dynamic networks for behavior control. ER -