Perceptual neuroscience : the cerebral cortex

著者

• Mountcastle, Vernon B.

書誌事項

Perceptual neuroscience : the cerebral cortex

Vernon B. Mountcastle

Harvard University Press, 1998

注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. [383]-458) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

The cerebral cortex, occupying over 70 percent of our brain mass, is key to any understanding of the workings--and disorders--of the human brain. offering a comprehensive account of the role of the cerebral cortex in perception, this monumental work by one of the world's greatest living neuroscientists does nothing short of creating a new subdiscipline in the field: perceptual neuroscience. For this undertaking, Vernon Mountcastle has gathered information from a vast number of sources reaching back through two centuries of investigation into the intrinsic operations of the cortex. His survey includes phylogenetic, comparative, and neuroanatomical studies of the neocortex; studies of the large-scale organization of the neocortex, of neuronal histogenesis and the specification of cortical areas, of synaptic transmission between neurons in cortical microcircuits, and of rhythmicity and synchronization in neocortical networks; and inquiries into the binding problem--how activities among the separate processing nodes of distributed systems coalesce in a coherent activity that we call perception. The first book to summarize what is known about the physiology of the cortex in perception, Perceptual Neuroscience will be a landmark in the literature of neuroscience.

目次

Expanded Contents Preface Perception and the Cerebral Cortex The Phylogenetic Development of the Cerebral Cortex Cells and Local Networks of the Neocortex The Organization of the Neocortex Synaptic Transmission in the Neocortex Activity-Dependent Changes in Synaptic Strength in the Hippocampus and Neocortex The Columnar Organization of the Neocortex The Ontogenesis of the Neocortex Secondary Events in Cortical Histogenesis and the Specification of Cortical Areas The Distributed and Hierarchical Organization of the Neocortical Systems Dynamic Operations in Neocortical Networks Rhythmicity and Synchronization in Neocortical Networks Epilogue References Illustration Credits Index

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA39027020
• ISBN:
  • 0674661885
• LCCN: 98015241
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Cambridge, Mass.
• ページ数/冊数: xvii, 486 p.
• 大きさ: 24 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : QP383.12
  • DC21 : 612.8/25
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Neocortex
  • LCSH : Perception