Modern theories of brain function are increasingly concerned with
dynamics. The task of organizing perception and behaviour in a
meaningful interaction with the external world prompts the brain to
recruit its various resources in a properly coordinated manner.
Vis-a-vis the complexity and multitude of the dynamics involved, a
careful orchestration of the various processing components,
distributed over space and time, is essential. Hence, it should
come as no surprise that a number of recent developments in both
experimental and theoretical brain science have emphasized the
aspect of spatio-temporal coordination.
This collection of papers intends to capture these various
developments in the brain sciences. It brings together new insights
and concepts from various branches of experimental and theoretical
neuroscience, partly in the form of review chapters, partly in
short, focussed contributions, or critical essays. Further it sets
out to explore the problems of the processing of the temporal
dimension of sensory input and of the generation of space-time
patterns in the motor output, as well as the intervening storage
and transformation of temporal patterns in nerve nets.
The publication is divided into four major sections: the first
considers spatio-temporal aspects of brain function in the context
of processing of sensory input and perception and the third,
spatio-temporal aspects of brain function at the output end:
planning and control of movement. The second section is dedicated
to the intervening level of neuronal activity in the working brain
and the various dynamics observed at different levels of resolution
in space and time. The fourth part combines contributions that
transcend this scheme.
It is hoped the book achieves its goal which is to raise an
interest in theoretical models that actively seek confrontation
with experimental data from the functioning brain, and by a
didactic effort aimed at experimentalists to present their data in
a format that makes them more amenable to theory.
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