Organization of Neural Networks
Structures and Models
Published in December 1987
Book
Hardback
XIV, 455 pages
978-3-527-26715-6 (ISBN)
Description
Twenty-two papers by leading experts examine the theoretical analysis and modeling of brain function, mainly of higher vertebrates. The papers are derived from a meeting on theoretical neuroscience held in Bad Homburg, West Germany, in September 1986. The book presents an intensive exchange of ideas by a selected interdisciplinary circle on theoretical problems of neural information processing. The papers have been revised and supplemented with edited versions of the discussions or comments subsequently sent to the editors.
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Content
An Introduction to Theoretical Neuroscience and Its Representative in the Present Volume; Elements of Signal Coding in the Auditory Nervous System; Pattern Recognition of Spectral Information in Hearing; Discussion; Information Flow and State in Cortical Neural Networks: Interpreting Multi-Neuron Experiments; Discussion; Discourse on Current Issues in Multi-Neuron Studies; Principles of Cortical Network Organization; Generation of Spatial Order in the Developing Nervous System; Discussion; Co-Operation Between Retinal and Cortical Input in the Midbrain of Mammals; Discussion; Concepts for Changing Neural Network Topology; The Visual System; Design for a Sensorium; Discussion; The Temporal Integration of 3-D Structure from Motion: A Computational and Psychophysical Study; Discussion; Some Basic Organizational Features of the Somatosensory Nervous System; Self-Organizing Processes in Adult Neo-Cortex; Discussion; Aspects of Human Memory and Amnesia Relevant to Neurobiological and Computational Models of Memory; Categorization in a Neural Network; Discussion; The Organization of Sequential Memory: Sparse Representations and the Targetting Problem; Discussion; Neural Networks and Models for Learning and Memory; Discussion; Mathematical Theory of Self-Organization in Neural Nets; Comments; Learning Control Structures with Neuron-Like Associative Memory Systems; Discussion; Summary Statement: An Epigenetic Landscape of Brain Theory.