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    23 problems in systems neuroscience / edited by J. Leo van Hemmen, Terrence J. Sejnowski.

    • Title:23 problems in systems neuroscience / edited by J. Leo van Hemmen, Terrence J. Sejnowski.
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    • Variant Title:Twenty three problems in systems neuroscience
    • Other Contributors/Collections:Hemmen, J. L. van (Jan Leonard), 1947-
      Sejnowski, Terrence J. (Terrence Joseph)
    • Published/Created:New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Neurobiology.
      Biological systems.
    • Description:xvi, 514 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
    • Series:Computational neuroscience.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
    • ISBN:9780195148220 (alk. paper)
      0195148223 (alk. paper)
    • Contents:1. Shall we even understand the fly's brain? / Gilles Laurent
      2. Can we understand the action of brains in natural environments? / Hermann Wagner and Bernhard Gaese
      3. Hemisphere dominance of brain function - which functions are lateralized and why? / Gunter Ehret
      4. What is the function of the thalamus? / S. Murray Sherman
      5. What is a neuronal map : how does it arise, and what is it good for? / J. Leo van Hemmen
      6. Whast is fed back? / Jean Bullier
      7. How can the brain be so fast? / Wulfram Gerstner
      8. What is the neural code? / C. van Vreeswijk
      9. Are single cortical neurons soloists or are they obedient members of a huge orchestra? / Tal Kenet, Amos Ariell, Misha Tsodysks and Amiram Grinvald
      10. What is the other 85 percent of V1 doing? / Bruno A. Olshausen and David J. Field
      11. Which computation runs in visual cortical columns? / Steven W. Zucker
      12. Are neurons adapted for specific computations? : examples from temporal coding in the auditory system / C. E. Carr, S. Iyer, D. Soares, S. Kalluri and J. Z. Simon
      13. How is time represented in the brain? / Andreas V. M. Herz
      14. How general are neural codes in sensory systems? / David McAlpine and Alan R. Palmer
      15. How does the hearing system perform auditory scene analysis? / Georg M. Klump
      16. How does our visual system achieve shift and size invariance? / Laurenz Wiskott
      17. What is reflected in sensory neocortical activity : external stimuli or what the cortex does with them? / Henning Scheich, Frank W. Ohl, Holger Schulze, Andreas Hess and Andre Brechmann
      18. Do perception and action result from different brain circuits? : the three visual systems hypothesis / Giacomo Rizzolatti and Vittorio Gallese
      19. What are the projective fields of cortical neurons? / Terrence J. Sejnowski
      20. How are the features of objects integrated into perceptual wholes that are selected by attention? / John H. Reynolds
      21. Where are the switches on this thing? / L. F. Abbott
      22. Synesthesia : what does it tell us about the emergence of qualia, metaphor, abstract thought, and language? / V. S. Ramachandran and Edward M. Hubbhard
      23. What are the neuronal correlates of consciousness? / Francis C. Crick and Christof Koch.
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