NEURAL ORGANIZATION: Structure, Function, and Dynamics

Michael A. Arbib, Péter Érdi, and János Szentágothai

The MIT Press, to appear in Summer, 1997

Table of Contents

Preface

Part I. Overviews

Chapter 1. The Many Themes of Neural Organization

1.1. Structure
1.2. Function
1.3. Dynamics

Chapter 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

Chapter 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

Chapter 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

Part II. Interacting Systems of the Brain

Chapter 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

Chapter 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

Chapter 7. Thalamus

7.1. Nuclei of the Thalamus
7.2. Thalamus and Sensory Systems
7.3. Thalamo-Cortical Loops and Cooperative Computation

Chapter 8. Cerebral Cortex

8.1. Structural Overview
8.2. Primary Visual Cortex: The Paradigm of Modular Architectonics
8.3. Thalamocortical Oscillators
8.4. Frontal-Parietal Interactions
8.5. Learning of Coordinated Behaviors
8.6. From Action-Oriented Perception to Cognition

Chapter 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

Chapter 10. Basal Ganglia

10.1. The 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

Chapter 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

Appendix

A.1. Neural Simulation Language NSL
A.2. Brain Models on the Web

References

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