“This is an excellent book on the biophysics and physiology of the cerebral cortex of reptiles, mammals, primates, and human subjects. … I recommend this book for students, scientists, neurophysiologists, Neurologists, and anyone involved in brain research.” (Joseph Grenier, Amazon.com, June, 2018)

This book brings together leading investigators who represent various aspects of brain dynamics with the goal of presenting state-of-the-art current progress and address future developments. 

The individual chapters cover several fascinating facets of contemporary neuroscience from elementary computation of neurons, mesoscopic network oscillations, internally generated assembly sequences in the service of cognition, large-scale neuronal interactions within and across systems, the impact of sleep on cognition, memory, motor-sensory integration, spatial navigation, large-scale computation and consciousness. Each of these topics require appropriate levels of analyses with sufficiently high temporal and spatial resolution of neuronal activity in both local and global networks, supplemented by models and theories to explain how different levels of brain dynamics interact with each other and how the failure of such interactions results in neurologic and mental disease. While suchcomplex questions cannot be answered exhaustively by a dozen or so chapters, this volume offers a nice synthesis of current thinking and work-in-progress on micro-, meso- and macro- dynamics of the brain.

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Hippocampal mechanisms for the segmentation of space by goals and boundaries.- Cortical Evolution: Introduction to the Reptilian Cortex.- Flow of information underlying a tactile decision in mice.- The Visual Brain: Computing through Multiscale Complexity.- Grid cells and spatial maps in entorhinal cortex and hippocampus.- The striatum and decision-making based on value.- Decoding the dynamics of conscious perception: The temporal generalization method.- Sleep and synaptic down-selection.- Federating and integrating what we know about the brain at all scales - a challenge for the future. Computer science meets the clinical neurosciences.
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How does the brain orchestrate perceptions, thoughts, and actions from the activity of its neurons? Addressing these challenging issues requires methods with sufficiently high temporal and spatial resolution of neuronal activity in both local and global networks as well as theories to advance understanding how different levels of brain dynamics interact. This book brings together leading investigators who represent various aspects of brain dynamics with the goal of presenting state-of-the-art current progress and address future developments. The topics cover the most fascinating facets of neuroscience from elementary computation of neurons, mesoscopic network oscillations, internally generated assembly sequences in the service of cognition, large-scale neuronal interactions within and across systems, the impact of sleep on cognition, memory and mental illness, brain controlled robots, motor-sensory integration, spatial navigation, large-scale computation and consciousness. Overall,this volume offers an integrated view of the challenges and opportunities in deciphering brain circuits in health and disease.


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This is an open access book, the electronic versions are freely accessible online.
Enriches understanding of the wide dynamic range of neural systems Illustrates the complete process how the brain orchestrates perceptions, thoughts, and actions from the activity of its neurons Presents an excellent synthesis of current thinking and work-in-progress on micro-, meso- and macro- dynamics of the brain
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Open Access This book is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this book are included in the book's Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the book's Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder.
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ISBN
9783319288017
Publisert
2016-05-11
Utgiver
Vendor
Springer International Publishing AG
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
155 mm
Aldersnivå
Research, UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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