Subject: Neuroscience Book Title: 23 Problems in Systems Neuroscience
23 Problems in Systems Neuroscience
van Hemmen, J. Leo (Editor),
Department of Physics,
Technical University Munich
Sejnowski, Terrence J. (Editor),
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Computational Neurobiology Laboratory,
Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Print publication date: 2006
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: May 2009
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-514822-0
doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195148220.001.0001
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: May 2009
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-514822-0
doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195148220.001.0001
Abstract:
The complexity of the brain and the protean nature of behavior remain the most elusive area of science, but also the most important. This book contains chapters written by twenty-three experts from many areas—from evolution to qualia—of systems neuroscience to formulate one problem each and discuss. Although each chapter was written independently and can be read separately, together they provide a roadmap to the field of systems neuroscience. This book provides as a source of inspirations for future explorers of the brain.
Keywords: evolution, qualia, systems neuroscience, brain, protean, behavior
Keywords: evolution, qualia, systems neuroscience, brain, protean, behavior
Table of Contents
Preface
1. Shall We Even Understand the Fly’s Brain?
2. Can We Understand the Action of Brains in Natural Environments?
3. Hemisphere Dominance of Brain Function—Which Functions Are Lateralized and Why?
4. What is the Function of the Thalamus?
5. What is a Neuronal Map, How Does It Arise, and What is it Good For?
6. What Is Fed Back?
7. How Can the Brain Be So Fast?
8. What Is the Neural Code?
9. Are Single Cortical Neurons Soloists or Are They Obedient Members of a Huge Orchestra?
10. What Is the Other 85 Percent of V1 Doing?
11. Which Computation Runs in Visual Cortical Columns?
12. Are Neurons Adapted for Specific Computations? Examples from Temporal Coding in the Auditory System
13. How Is Time Represented in the Brain?
14. How General Are Neural Codes in Sensory Systems?
15. How Does the Hearing System Perform Auditory Scene Analysis?
16. How Does Our Visual System Achieve Shift and Size Invariance?
17. What Is Reflected in Sensory Neocortical Activity: External Stimuli or What the Cortex Does with Them?
18. Do Perception and Action Result from Different Brain Circuits? The Three Visual Systems Hypothesis
19. What Are the Projective Fields of Cortical Neurons?
20. How Are the Features of Objects Integrated into Perceptual Wholes That Are Selected by Attention?
21. Where Are the Switches on This Thing?
22. Synesthesia: What Does It Tell Us about the Emergence of Qualia, Metaphor, Abstract Thought, and Language?
23. What Are the Neuronal Correlates of Consciousness?
Index
doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195148220.001.0001
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