Research Catalog

Title

Neural organization : structure, function, and dynamics / Michael A. Arbib, Péter Érdi, and János Szentágothai.

Author

Arbib, Michael A.

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [1998], ©1998.

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Additional Authors

• Érdi, Péter.
• Szentágothai, János.

Description

xii, 407 pages : illustrations; 29 cm

Subjects

• Neurosciences > Methodology
• Brain > Research > Methodology

Note

• "A Bradford book."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [357]-393) and index.

Contents

• 1. The Many Themes of Neural Organization. 1.1. Structure. 1.2. Function. 1.3. Dynamics -- 2. A Structural Overview. 2.1. An Embryological Perspective on Neural Structure and Motility. 2.2. The Modular Architectonics Principle. 2.3. Multiple Models of Modularity -- 3. A Functional Overview. 3.1. Schema Theory and Functional Neuroscience. 3.2. Schemas for Rana computatrix. 3.3. Schemas for Saccades. 3.4. Schemas for Reaching and Grasping. 3.5. Representing Space and Time -- 4. A Dynamical Overview. 4.1. Neurodynamical System Theory. 4.2. Oscillatory Behavior in Neural Systems. 4.3. Chaotic Behavior in Neural Systems: Some Facts and Models. 4.4. Self-Organization and the Development of the Nervous System. 4.5. Learning Rules -- 5. The Olfactory System. 5.1. Anatomical Organization. 5.2. Electrical Patterns in the Olfactory Bulb and Olfactory Cortex. 5.3. Development, Learning, and Memory in the Olfactory System -- 6. Hippocampus.
• 6.1. Anatomical Organization. 6.2. Electrical Activity Patterns. 6.3. Brain States and Long-Term Potentiation. 6.4. Hippocampal Function and Cognitive Maps. 6.5. Hippocampal Function and Human Memory -- 7. Thalamus. 7.1. Nuclei of the Thalamus. 7.2. Thalamus and Sensory Systems. 7.3. Thalamocortical Loops and Cooperative Computation -- 8. Cerebral Cortex. 8.1. Structural Overview. 8.2. Primary Visual Cortex: The Paradigm of Modular Architectonics. 8.3. Thalamocortical Oscillators. 8.4. Frontoparietal Interactions. 8.5. Learning of Coordinated Behaviors. 8.6. From Action-Oriented Perception to Cognition -- 9. Cerebellum. 9.1. Phylogeny and Ontogeny of the Cerebellum. 9.2. Structural Organization of the Cerebellar Cortex and Nuclei. 9.3. The Cerebellum as a Learning Machine. 9.4. Cerebellar Adaptation of Movement Generation. 9.5. The Cerebellum and Mental Activity -- 10. Basal Ganglia. 10.1. Structure of the Basal Ganglia.
• 10.2. Diseases of the Basal Ganglia. 10.3. Self-Reorganization of the Striatum. 10.4. Role of Basal Ganglia in Saccade Control. 10.5. Roles of the Basal Ganglia in Motor Coordination and Learning -- 11. Prospects for a Neuroscience of Cognition. 11.1. Following the Threads: The Book in Perspective. 11.2. Multiple Levels, Multiple Methodologies, and the Need for Their Integration. 11.3. Implications and Outlook for Cognitive Neuroscience. A. Neural Simulation Language -- B. Brain Models on the Web.

ISBN

026201159X (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

96044543

OCLC

• 35741364
• ocm35741364

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries