Psychology & Psychiatry : Cognitive Psychology

Preface J. Leo van Hemmen and Terrence J. Sejnowski. Section 1. How have brains evolved?. 1. Shall we ever understand the fly's brain?, Gilles Laurent. 2. Can we understand the action of brain in natural environments?, Hermann Wagner and Bernhard Gaese. 3. Hemisphere dominance of brain function-which functions are lateralized and why?, Gunther Ehr. Section 2. How is the cerebral cortex organized?. 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. What is the role of top-down connections?, Jean Bullier. Section 3. How do neurons interact?. 7. How fast is neuronal signal transmission?, Wulfram Gerstner. 8. What is the origin and functional properties of irregular activity?, Dr. Carl van Vreeswi. 9. Are single cortical neurons independent or are they obedient members of a huge orchestra?, Amiram Grinvald, Tal Kenet, Amos Arieli, and Misha Tsodyks. 10. What is the other 85% of V1 doing?, Bruno A. Olshausen and David J. Field. Section 4. What can brains compute?. 11. What is the formal computation in early vision?, Steven W. Zuck. 12. Are neurons adapted for specific computations?, Catherine Carr, D. Soares, S. Parameshwaran, S. Kalluri, J. Simon, and T. Perney. 13. How can neural systems compute in the time domain, Andreas V.M. Herz. 14. How common are neural codes?, David McAlpine and Alan R. Palmer. 15. How does the hearing system perform auditory scene analysis?, Georg Klump. 16. How does our visual system achieve shift and size invariance?, Laurenz Wiskott. Section 5. 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. To what extent does perception depend upon action?, Giacomo Rizzolatti and Vittorio Gallese. 19. What are the projective fields of cortical neurons?, Terrence J. Sejnowski. 20. To what extent is the brain more...

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