If indeed cell assemblies and assembly sequences are parsed and separated in time, there must be mechanisms that bridge them across time even in the absence of spiking activity (Buenomano and Maass, 2009). Therefore, the third hypothesis I advance is that the constituents of the neural syntax are linked together by dynamically changing constellations of synaptic weights (von der Malsburg, 1994), which I refer to as ‘synapsembles’.
