Time and the Brain

by Miller; Robert

• ISBN13: 9789058230607
• ISBN10: 9058230600
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-09-11
• Publisher: CRC Press

Summary

Since the days of Galileo, time has been a fundamental variable in scientific attempts to understand the natural world. Once the first recordings of electrical activity in the brain had been made, it became clear that electrical signals from the brain consist of very complex temporal patterns. This can now be demonstrated by recordings at the single unit level and by electroencephalography (EEG). Time and the Brain explores modern approaches to these temporal aspects of electrical brain activity. The temporal structure as revealed from trains of impulses from single nerve cells and from EEG recordings are discussed in depth together with an exploration of correlations with behaviour and psychology. The single cell and EEG approaches often tend to be segregated as the research occurs in laboratories in different parts of the world. By bringing together modern information acquired using both methods it is hoped that they can become better integrated as complimentary windows on the information processing achieved by the brain.

Table of Contents

Series Preface	vii
Preface	ix
List of Contributors	xi
Empirical Evidence about Temporal Structure in Multi-unit Recordings	1	(52)
Alessandro E.P. Villa
Cross-correlograms for Neuronal Spike Trains. Different Types of Temporal Correlation in Neocortex, their Origin and Significance	53	(44)
Lionel G. Nowak
Jean Bullier
The Space-Time Continuum in Mammalian Sensory Pathways	97	(34)
Asif A. Ghazanfar
Miguel A.L. Nicolelis
Information Flow along Neocortical Axons	131	(26)
Harvey A. Swadlow
Psychophysics of Human Timing	157	(12)
Thomas H. Rammsayer
Simon Grondin
Cortical Processing by Fast Synchronization: High Frequency Rhythmic and Non-rhythmic Signals in the Visual Cortex Point to General Principles of Spatiotemporal Coding	169	(34)
Reinhard Eckhorn
EEG Alpha and Cognitive Processes	203	(22)
Wolfgang Klimesch
Theta Frequency, Synchronization and Episodic Memory Performance	225	(16)
Wolfgang Klimesch
Distributed Assemblies, High Frequencies and the Significance of EEG/MEG Recordings	241	(10)
Friedemann Pulvermuller
Cell Assemblies, Associative Memory and Temporal Structure in Brain Signals	251	(24)
Thomas Wennekers
Gunther Palm
The Relation between EEG and Evoked Potentials	275	(22)
Erol Basar
Sirel Karakas
Elke Rahn
Martin Schurmann
Coherence and Phase Relations between EEG Traces Recorded from Different Locations	297	(34)
Peter Rappelsberger
S. Weiss
Baerbel Schack
Temporal Structure of Neural Activity and Models of Information Processing in the Brain	331	(20)
Galina N. Borisyuk
Roman M. Borisyuk
Yakov B. Kazanovich
Discussion Section	351	(40)
POSTLUDE The Neuroanatomy of Time	391	(6)
Valentino Braitenberg
Index	397