Circuits in the Brain A Model of Shape Processing in the Primary Visual Cortex /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Legéndy, Charles (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: New York, NY : Springer US, 2009.
• Θέματα: Medicine.; History.; Neurosciences.; Philosophy.; Neurobiology.; Physics.; Biomedicine.; Philosophy, general.; History of Science.; Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics.

Dr. Charles Legéndy's Circuits in the Brain: A Model of Shape Processing in the Primary Visual Cortex is published at a time marked by unprecedented advances in experimental brain research which are, however, not matched by similar advances in theoretical insight. For this reason, the timing is...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Concepts of brain theory
• Lettvin’s Challenge
• Issues Concerning the Nature of Neuronal Response
• “Events” in the Brain
• Cell Assemblies
• Surprise, Statistical Inference, and Conceptual Notes
• A New Term: Ignitions Which “Reach” or “Don’t Reach” a Neuron
• Confirmation Loops, Powered by Self-Ignitions
• Communicating “Relatedness” Through Time-Linked Ignitions
• Relational Firing: Broadcasting a Shape Through Time-Linked Ignitions
• 2. Contour strings and the contour wave
• Enter the Contour String
• Drift of the Retinal Image
• Theory of the Simple Cell
• Theory of the Complex Cell
• Corner Processing: Theory of the Hypercomplex Cell
• 3. Nodes, links, bridgeheads
• Nodes on Contour Strings
• Custom-Made Unstable Networks Made to Support Tracking
• Why Is the Drifting Retinal Image Helpful in Perception?
• The Maintenance of Moving Nodes and Bridgeheads
• 4. Firing games and the integration of contours
• Making the First Links by Crawling Along a Contour String
• Using Existing Links to Make New Links on the Same Contour
• Completing a Triangle of Links
• All-to-All Linkup on Smaller Shapes, Utilizing Chain Ignitions.