Figure 3.

Sequential memory—Binding dynamics of 3-modality events. (A) Illustration of an ensemble of 18 competitors fluctuating on three functional communities: each of them is responsible for the processing of different informational modalities. In this example, all connections are inhibitory as characterized by the WLC matrices in the model (1)–(2) with W = const., i.e., focused attention. (B) Illustration of the heteroclinic network in the model phase space, where $Q_i^l$ is the saddle i in the modality l. (C) Mutual modulations of different modalitity sequences, as shown by the projection of a trajectory on a 3-dimensional space. Colored regions point out the vicinity of the metastable states. One can see that this complex trajectory spends some time in a neighborhood of one modality and goes to the next modality afterwards (Afraimovich et al., 2015).