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Circuits in the Brain

Circuits in the Brain

Charles Legéndy

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Springer Nature B.V.
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2010
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Filosofía
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9781441927866
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Part 1. Concepts of Brain Theory 1. Lettvin’s challenge2. Issues concerning the nature of neuronal response3. ’Events’ in the brain4. Cell assemblies5. Surprise, statistical inference, and conceptual notes6. A new term: ignitions which ’reach’ or ’don’t reach’ a neuron7. Confirmation loops, powered by self-ignitions8. Communicating ’relatedness’ through time-linked ignitions9. Relational firing: broadcasting a shape through time-linked ignitions Part 2. Contour strings and the contour wave 10. Enter the contour string11. Drift of the retinal image12. Theory of the simple cell13. Theory of the complex cell14. Corner processing: theory of the hypercomplex cell Part 3. Nodes, links, bridgeheads 15. Nodes on contour strings16. Custom-made unstable networks made to support tracking17. Why is the drifting retinal image helpful in perception?18. The maintenance of moving nodes and bridgeheads Part 4. Firing games and the integration of contours 19. Making the first links by crawling along a contour string20. Using existing links to make new links on the same contour21. Completing a triangle of links

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