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Information Processing in the Cortex

Experiments and Theory

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1992

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Editors:
  1. Ad Aertsen

    1. Institut für Neuroinformatik, Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany

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  2. Valentino Braitenberg

    1. Max-Planck-Institut für biologische Kybernetik, Tübingen, Germany

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Table of contents (29 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XII
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  3. Cortical Activity at Different Levels of Resolution in Space and Time

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 51-51
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    2. The Biological Role of Neocortex

      • Horace B. Barlow
      Pages 53-80

    3. Coding and Computation in the Cortex: Single-Neuron Activity and Cooperative Phenomena

      • Eilon Vaadia, Ad Aertsen
      Pages 81-121

    4. Novel Strategies to Unravel Mechanisms of Cortical Function: From Macro- to Micro-Electrophysiological Recordings

      • Amos Arieli
      Pages 123-137

    5. Neuronal Population Coding and the Elephant

      • George L. Gerstein, Paul M. Gochin
      Pages 139-160

    6. Is Spike Frequency the Critical Factor in Recognising the Visual Stimulus?

      • J. Krüger, J. D. Becker
      Pages 161-165

    7. Independence

      • Horace B. Barlow
      Pages 167-168

    8. Single Cells versus Neuronal Assemblies

      • Horace B. Barlow
      Pages 169-173

    9. Neurons as Computational Elements

      • Horace B. Barlow
      Pages 175-178

    10. Some Quantitative Remarks about the Retina, the Primary Visual Cortex, and Visual Perception in Humans

      • Christian Wehrhahn
      Pages 179-188

    11. Cells in the Visual Cortex are not just Local Receptive-Field Filters

      • Ulla Mitzdorf, B.-H. Li
      Pages 189-199

    12. Dynamics of Activity in Biology-Oriented Neural Network Models: Stability at Low Firing Rates

      • Michael Erb, Ad Aertsen
      Pages 201-223

    13. A Theoretical Approach to the Late Components of the Event-Related Brain Potential

      • Thomas Elbert
      Pages 225-245

    14. Cortical Information Processing as Viewed from the Mass-Action Domain of Evoked Potentials

      • Ulla Mitzdorf
      Pages 247-251

    15. Current Source Density Analysis of Spatio-Temporal Fluorescence Maps in Organotypical Slice Cultures

      • Dietmar Plenz, Ad Aertsen
      Pages 253-269
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There is a tradition of theoretical brain science which started in the forties (Wiener, McCulloch, Turing, Craik, Hebb). This was continued by a small number of people without interruption up to the present. It has definitely provided main guiding lines for brain science, the devel­ opment of which has been spectacular in the last decades. However, within the bulk of experimental neuroscience, the theoreticians some­ times had a difficult stand, since it was felt that the times were not ripe yet and the methods not yet available for a development of a true theoretical speciality in this field. Thus theory remained in the hands of a fairly small club which recruited its members from theoretical physicists, mathematicians and some experimentalists with amateurish theoretical leanings. The boom of approaches which go by the name of 'computational neuroscience', 'neuronal networks', 'associative mem­ ory', 'spinglass theory', 'parallel processing' etc. should not blind one for the fact that the group of people professionally interested in real­ istic models of brain function up to the present date remains rather small and suffers from a lack of professional organization. It was against this background that we decided to organize a meet­ ing on Theoretical Brain Science. The meeting was held April 18 - 20, 1990 and took place at Schloss Ringberg, West-Germany, a facility sponsored by the Max-Planck-Society.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institut für Neuroinformatik, Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany

    Ad Aertsen

  • Max-Planck-Institut für biologische Kybernetik, Tübingen, Germany

    Valentino Braitenberg

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