Brain Function and Oscillations: Integrative Brain Function. Neurophysiology and Cognitive Processes

✍ Scribed by Professor Dr. Erol Başar (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 491
• Series: Springer Series in Synergetics
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book establishes a brain theory based on neural oscillations with a temporal relation to a well-defined event. New findings about oscillations at the cellular level show striking parallels with EEG and MEG measurements. The authors embrace both the level of single neurons and that of the brain as a whole, showing how this approach advances our knowledge about the functional significance of the brain's electrical activity. They are related to sensory and cognitive tasks, leading towards an "integrative neurophysiology". The book will appeal to scientists and graduate students.
This two-volume treatise has the special features that:
- powerful mathematical algorithms are used;
- concepts of synergetics, synchronization of cell assemblies provide a new theory of evoked potentials;
- the EEG frequencies are considered as a type of alphabet of brain function;
- based on the results described, brain oscillations are correlated with multiple functions, including sensory registration, perception, movement and cognitive processes related to attention,learning and memory;
- the superposition principle of event-related oscillations and brain Feynmann diagrams are introduced as metaphors from quantum theory.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XXXIX
Prologue: The Voyage in EEG....Pages 1-16
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
Dynamics of Potentials in the Visual and Auditory Pathway, Hippocampus, and Reticular Formation of the Cat Brain....Pages 19-35
Cross-Modality Experiments on the Cat Brain....Pages 37-59
Selectively Distributed Gamma-Band Responses Studied in Cortex, Reticular Formation, Hippocampus, and Cerebellum....Pages 61-67
Highest Frequency Range in Reticular Formation and Inferior Colliculus (100–1000 Hz)....Pages 69-73
The Brain of the Sleeping Cat: Dynamics of Electrical Signals....Pages 75-89
Dynamics of Potentials from Invertebrate Brains....Pages 91-108
Dynamics of Potentials from the Brain of Anamniotes (Vertebrates)....Pages 109-116
Frequency Response of the Cat Brain Influenced by Pharmacological Agents....Pages 117-126
Front Matter....Pages 127-127
Evoked Alpha and Theta Responses in Humans to Auditory and Visual Stimuli....Pages 129-142
“Cross-Modality” Experiments in Humans....Pages 143-153
The Bisensory Evoked Theta Response — A Correlate of Supramodal Association?....Pages 155-160
Evoked Delta Oscillations on the Hearing Threshold....Pages 161-175
Evoked Oscillations in Magnetoencephalography....Pages 177-189
Front Matter....Pages 191-191
Selective Attention and Memory: Neurophysiology and Cognitive Psychology....Pages 193-205
Memory Templates in Event-Related Oscillations, P300, MMN....Pages 207-228
Dynamics of Compound Potentials (P300) in Freely Moving Cats....Pages 229-241
The Compound P300–40Hz Response of the Cat Hippocampus....Pages 243-247
Event-Related Potentials During States of High Expectancy: Results on the Cat Hippocampus, Cortex, and Reticular Formation....Pages 249-267
Event-Related Potentials During States of High Expectancy and Attention in Human Subjects....Pages 269-282
Front Matter....Pages 191-191
Topological Distribution of Oddball “P300” Responses....Pages 283-292
Wavelet Analysis of Oddball P300....Pages 293-302
Dynamic Memory Manifested by Induced Alpha....Pages 303-321
Event-Related Oscillations as a Strategy in Cognition Research....Pages 323-328
Front Matter....Pages 329-329
Functional Alphas Selectively Distributed in the Brain - A Theory....Pages 331-351
Theta Rhythms in Integrative Brain Function....Pages 353-366
Gamma-Band Responses in the Brain: Functional Significance....Pages 367-380
Structures, Brain Waves, and Their Functions....Pages 381-392
Brain Functioning: Integrative Models....Pages 393-406
EEG and Event-Related Oscillations as Brain Alphabet....Pages 407-415
Event-Related Oscillations in Brain Function....Pages 417-426
Front Matter....Pages 427-427
An Integrative Neurophysiology Based on Brain Oscillations....Pages 429-434
A “Neurons-Brain” Doctrine: New Thoughts....Pages 435-436
Epilogue: EEG Oscillations in Integrative-Cognitive Neurophysiology....Pages 437-438
Back Matter....Pages 439-476

✦ Subjects

Biophysics and Biological Physics;Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity;Neurosciences;Biomedical Engineering