Cognitive Phase Transitions in the Cerebral Cortex - Enhancing the Neuron Doctrine by Modeling Neural Fields

• Main Authors: Kozma, Robert (Author), Freeman, Walter J. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Series: Studies in Systems, Decision and Control, 39
• Subjects: Engineering.; Artificial intelligence.; Computational intelligence.; Complexity, Computational.; Cognitive psychology.; Computational Intelligence.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Complexity.; Cognitive Psychology.

This intriguing book was born out of the many discussions the authors had in the past 10 years about the role of scale-free structure and dynamics in producing intelligent behavior in brains. The microscopic dynamics of neural networks is well described by the prevailing paradigm based in a narrow i...