Computational Neuroscience: Cortical Dynamics: 8th International Summer School on Neural Nets, Erice, Italy, October 31-November 6, 2003, Revised Lectures

Bruce P. Graham (auth.), Péter Érdi, Anna Esposito, Maria Marinaro, Silvia Scarpetta (eds.)3540225668, 9783540225669

This book presents thoroughly revised tutorial papers based on lectures given by leading researchers at the 8th International Summer School on Neural Networks in Erice, Italy, in October/November 2003.

The eight tutorial papers presented provide competent coverage of the field of cortical dynamics, consolidating recent theoretical and experimental results on the processing, transmission, and imprinting of information in the brain as well as on important functions of the cortical area, such as cortical rhythms, cortical neural plasticity, and their structural basis and functional significance. The book is divided in two topical sections on fundamentals of cortical dynamics and mathematical models of cortical dynamics.

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Table of contents :
Front Matter….Pages –
Dynamics of Storage and Recall in Hippocampal Associative Memory Networks….Pages 1-23
On the Nested Hierarchical Organization of CNS: Basic Characteristics of Neuronal Molecular Networks….Pages 24-54
Neural Phase Transitions That Made Us Mammals….Pages 55-70
Mean Field Methods for Cortical Network Dynamics….Pages 71-89
Chaotic Neuron Dynamics, Synchronization, and Feature Binding….Pages 90-108
A Complex Systems Approach to an Interpretation of Dynamic Brain Activity I: Chaotic Itinerancy Can Provide a Mathematical Basis for Information Processing in Cortical Transitory and Nonstationary Dynamics….Pages 109-128
A Complex Systems Approach to an Interpretation of Dynamic Brain Activity II: Does Cantor Coding Provide a Dynamic Model for the Formation of Episodic Memory?….Pages 129-139
Itinerant Dynamics of Class I* Neurons Coupled by Gap Junctions….Pages 140-160
Back Matter….Pages –