Laurenz Wiskott and Christoph von der Malsburg Conventional neural nets have a fast activity dynamics and synaptic weights which are subject to slow adaptation, i.e. learning. Since the time constants are so different, the activity dynamics can be treated as being independent of the synaptic adaptation.
Correlations allow expressing relations between signals within a net.
Neurons which process related information fire synchronously while other neurons fire uncorrelated. This is a solution to the binding problem . The fast switching synapses, or dynamic links , allow reconfiguration of the net architecture on a fast time scale during processing a signal. This synaptic reconfiguration is part of the signal processing and not to be confused with learning. DLM is used for translation invariant object recognition.