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Subject(s)

• Brain—Physiology [Browse]
• Electroencephalography [Browse]
• Evoked Potentials—Physiology [Browse]

Series

• Springer Series in Synergetics, [More in this series]
• Springer Series in Synergetics, 0172-7389 [More in this series]

Summary note

This book establishes a brain theory based on neural oscillations with a temporal relation to a well-defined event. New findings about oscillations at the cellular level show striking parallels with EEG and MEG measurements. The authors embrace both the level of single neurons and that of the brain as a whole, showing how this approach advances our knowledge about the functional significance of the brain's electrical activity. They are related to sensory and cognitive tasks, leading towards an "integrative neurophysiology". The book will appeal to scientists and graduate students. This two-volume treatise has the special features that: - powerful mathematical algorithms are used; - concepts of synergetics, synchronization of cell assemblies provide a new theory of evoked potentials; - the EEG frequencies are considered as a type of alphabet of brain function; - based on the results described, brain oscillations are correlated with multiple functions, including sensory registration, perception, movement and cognitive processes related to attention,learning and memory; - the superposition principle of event-related oscillations and brain Feynmann diagrams are introduced as metaphors from quantum theory.

Notes

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Language note

English

Contents

• I. Dynamics of Electrical Signals in the Animal Brain
• 1. Dynamics of Potentials in the Visual and Auditory Pathway, Hippocampus, and Reticular Formation of the Cat Brain
• 2. Cross-Modality Experiments on the Cat Brain
• 3. Selectively Distributed Gamma-Band Responses Studied in Cortex, Reticular Formation, Hippocampus, and Cerebellum
• 4. Highest Frequency Range in Reticular Formation and Inferior Colliculus (100–1000 Hz)
• 5. The Brain of the Sleeping Cat: Dynamics of Electrical Signals
• 6. Dynamics of Potentials from Invertebrate Brains
• 7. Dynamics of Potentials from the Brain of Anamniotes (Vertebrates)
• 8. Frequency Response of the Cat Brain Is Influenced by Pharmacological Agents
• II. The Human Brain: Dynamics of EEG, Evoked Potentials, and MEG
• 9. Evoked Alpha and Theta Responses in Humans to Auditory and Visual Stimuli
• 10. “Cross-Modality” Experiments in Humans
• 11. The Bisensory Evoked Theta Response - A Correlate of Supramodal Association?
• 12. Evoked Delta Oscillations on the Hearing Threshold
• 13. Evoked Oscillations in Magnetoencephalography
• III. Cognitive Processes
• 14. Selective Attention and Memory: Neurophysiology and Cognitive Psychology
• 15. Memory Templates in Event-Related Oscillations, P300, MMN
• 16. Dynamics of Compound Potentials (P300) in Freely Moving Cats
• 17. The Compound P300–40Hz Response of the Cat Hippocampus
• 18. Event-Related Potentials During States of High Expectancy: Results on the Cat Hippocampus, Cortex, and Reticular Formation
• 19. Event-Related Potentials During States of High Expectancy and Attention in Human Subjects
• 20. Topological Distribution of Oddball “P300” Responses
• 21. Wavelet Analysis of Oddball P300
• 22. Dynamic Memory Manifested by Induced Alpha
• 23. Event-Related Oscillations as a Strategy in Cognition Research
• IV. Integrative Systems in Brain Function
• 24. Functional Alphas Selectively Distributed in the Brain - A Theory
• 25. Theta Rhythms in Integrative Brain Function
• 26. Gamma-Band Responses in the Brain: Functional Significance
• 27. Structures, Brain Waves, and Their Functions
• 28. Brain Functioning: Integrative Models
• 29. EEG and Event-Related Oscillations as Brain Alphabet
• 30. Event-Related Oscillations in Brain Function
• V. Conclusion
• 31. An Integrative Neurophysiology Based on Brain Oscillations
• 32. A “Neurons-Brain” Doctrine: New Thoughts
• 33. Epilogue: EEG Oscillations in Integrative-Cognitive Neurophysiology
• References
• Author Index.

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ISBN

3-642-59893-5

Doi

• 10.1007/978-3-642-59893-7

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