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Principles of Brain Dynamics: Global State Interactions

By Karl J. Friston , Mikhail I. Rabinovich , Pablo Varona

Book information

Publisher
The MIT Press
Year
2012
ISBN
0262017644, 9780262017640
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
14 MB (14960203 bytes)
Series
Computational Neuroscience
Edition
1
Pages
360\355
Topic
Medicine
Time added
2014-11-23 12:15:36
Медицинские дисциплины;Физиология человека;Нейрофи

Description

The consideration of time or dynamics is fundamental for all aspects of mental activity -- perception, cognition, and emotion -- because the main feature of brain activity is the continuous change of the underlying brain states even in a constant environment. The application of nonlinear dynamics to the study of brain activity began to flourish in the 1990s when combined with empirical observations from modern morphological and physiological observations. This book offers perspectives on brain dynamics that draw on the latest advances in research in the field. It includes contributions from both theoreticians and experimentalists, offering an eclectic treatment of fundamental issues. Topics addressed range from experimental and computational approaches to transient brain dynamics to the free-energy principle as a global brain theory. The book concludes with a short but rigorous guide to modern nonlinear dynamics and their application to neural dynamics.

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