Biological neural networks : hierarchical concept of brain function /

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Author / Creator:Baev, K. V. (Konstantin Vasilʹevich)
Imprint:Boston : Birkhäuser, c1998.
Description:xxxvii, 273 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3173947
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ISBN:0817638598 (acid-free)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 226-242) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Alex Meystel
  • Foreword / Karl A. Greene
  • 1. Limitations of Analytical Mechanistic Approaches to Biological Neural Networks
  • 2. The Control Theory Approach to Biological Neural Networks
  • 3. A Central Pattern Generator Includes A Model of Controlled Object: An Experimental Proof
  • 4. The Spinal Motor Optimal Control System
  • 5. Generalizing the Concept of a Neural Optimal Control System: A Generic Neural Optimal Control System
  • 6. Learning in Artificial and Biological Neural Networks
  • 7. The Hierarchy of Neural Control Systems
  • 8. Application of the Concept of Optimal Control Systems to Inborn Motor Automatisms in Various Animal Species
  • 9. The Stretch-Reflex System
  • 10. The Cerebellum
  • 11. The Skeletomotor Cortico-Basal Ganglia-Thalamocortical Circuit
  • 12. The Limbic System
  • 13. The Prefrontal Cortex
  • 14. Conclusion
  • App. 1. The Main Properties of Sensory Information Sources and Channels
  • App. 2. Functioning of the Internal Model of the Controlled Object
  • App. 3. The Spinal Optimal Motor Control System as a Neural Network.