Dynamics of Sensory and Cognitive Processing by the Brain: Integrative Aspects of Neural Networks, Electroencephalography, Event-Related Potentials, Contingent Negative Variation, Magnetoencephalography, and Clinical Applications

Melnechuk, Theodore (Associate editor)/ Basar, Erol (Edited by)

ISBN 10: 3642715338 / ISBN 13: 9783642715334

Editore: Springer, 2011

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• Titolo: Dynamics of Sensory and Cognitive Processing by the Brain: Integrative Aspects of Neural Networks, Electroencephalography, Event-Related Potentials, Contingent Negative Variation, Magnetoencephalography, and Clinical Applications
• Editore: Springer
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 3642715338
• ISBN 13: 9783642715334
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: Brand New
• Peso: 0,7 chilogrammi

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This volume represents a significant step toward a better understanding of integrative functions of the central nervous system (C.N.S.) containing contributions on E.E.G., evoked potentials, event-related potentials, contingent negative variation (C.N.V.), and mag

Contenuti

I. Compound Potentials of the Brain: From the Invertebrate Ganglion to the Human Brain.- Compound Potentials of the Brain, Ongoing and Evoked: Perspectives from Comparative Neurology.- Nonlinear Neural Dynamics in Olfaction as a Model for Cognition.- EEG ― Dynamics and Evoked Potentials in Sensory and Cognitive Processing by the Brain.- Electrophysiological and Radiographic Evidence for the Mediation of Memory by an Anatomically Distributed System.- Recent Advances in Neurocognitive Pattern Analysis.- Dynamic Changes in Steady-State Responses.- Cortical Structure and Electrogenesis.- Evoked Potentials and Their Physiological Causes: An Access to Delocalized Cortical Activity.- II. Field Potentials and Nonlinear Dynamics. Do New Models Emerge?.- Electromagnetic Field Interactions in the Brain.- Global Contributions to Cortical Dynamics: Theoretical and Experimental Evidence for Standing Wave Phenomena.- Gross Electrocortical Activity as a Linear Wave Phenomenon, with Variable Temporal Damping.- Chaotic Dynamics in Brain Activity.- The EEG is Not a Simple Noise: Strange Attractors in Intracranial Structures.- III. New Scopes at the Cellular Level.- Assessment of Cooperative Firing in Groups of Neurons: Special Concepts for Multiunit Recordings from the Visual System.- Generation of Fast and Slow Field Potentials of the Central Nervous System ― Studied in Model Epilepsies.- IV. Cognitive Potentials.- The Many Faces of Neuroreductionism.- The Endogenous Evoked Potentials.- Cognitive Processing in the EEG.- An Analysis of Preparation and Response Activity in P300 Experiments in Humans.- The CNV Potentials and Adaptive Preparatory Behaviour.- V. Magnetic Fields of the Brain.- Magnetic Fields from the Human Auditory Cortex.- Interpretation of Cerebral Magnetic Fields Elicited by Somatosensory Stimuli.- Auditory Evoked Magnetic Fields.- VI. Clinical Applications.- Iterative Estimation of Single-Trial Evoked Potentials.- Auditory Evoked Potentials: Topodiagnostic Value, Spatiotemporal Aspect, and Phase Problem (Rarefaction Versus Condensation).- VII. Workshop: How Brains May Work.- The Brain-Wave Model as a Protosemantic Model.- How May Brains Work? A View from Comparative Physiology.- Thoughts on “How Brains May Work”: The Truism, the Guess, and the Prediction.- Do EEG-like Processes Influence Brain Function at a Physiological Level?.- Resonating Fields in the Brain and the Hyperneuron.- A Watershed in the Study of Nonlinear Neural Dynamics.- Thoughts on Brain’s Internal Codes.- Overview of Methodology.- Epilogue.- Brain Waves, Chaos, Learning, and Memory.