Micro-, Meso- and Macro-Dynamics of the Brain (Research and Perspectives in Neurosciences)

Annotation This book brings together leading investigators who represent various aspects of brain dynamics with the goal of presenting state-of-the-art current progress and address future developments. The individual chapters cover several fascinating facets of contemporary neuroscience from elementary computation of neurons, mesoscopic network oscillations, internally generated assembly sequences in the service of cognition, large-scale neuronal interactions within and across systems, the impact of sleep on cognition, memory, motor-sensory integration, spatial navigation, large-scale computation and consciousness. Each of these topics require appropriate levels of analyses with sufficiently high temporal and spatial resolution of neuronal activity in both local and global networks, supplemented by models and theories to explain how different levels of brain dynamics interact with each other and how the failure of such interactions results in neurologic and mental disease. While such complex questions cannot be answered exhaustively by a dozen or so chapters, this volume offers a nice synthesis of current thinking and work-in-progress on micro-, meso- and macro- dynamics of the brain How does the brain orchestrate perceptions, thoughts, and actions from the activity of its neurons? Addressing these challenging issues requires methods with sufficiently high temporal and spatial resolution of neuronal activity in both local and global networks as well as theories to advance understanding how different levels of brain dynamics interact. This book brings together leading investigators who represent various aspects of brain dynamics with the goal of presenting state-of-the-art current progress and address future developments. The topics cover the most fascinating facets of neuroscience from elementary computation of neurons, mesoscopic network oscillations, internally generated assembly sequences in the service of cognition, large-scale neuronal interactions within and across systems, the impact of sleep on cognition, memory and mental illness, brain controlled robots, motor-sensory integration, spatial navigation, large-scale computation and consciousness. Overall, this volume offers an integrated view of the challenges and opportunities in deciphering brain circuits in health and disease. 2FI0208. Front Matter....Pages i-xiii Hippocampal Mechanisms for the Segmentation of Space by Goals and Boundaries....Pages 1-21 Cortical Evolution: Introduction to the Reptilian Cortex....Pages 23-33 Flow of Information Underlying a Tactile Decision in Mice....Pages 35-41 The Visual Brain: Computing Through Multiscale Complexity....Pages 43-57 Grid Cells and Spatial Maps in Entorhinal Cortex and Hippocampus....Pages 59-80 The Striatum and Decision-Making Based on Value....Pages 81-84 Decoding the Dynamics of Conscious Perception: The Temporal Generalization Method....Pages 85-97 Sleep and Synaptic Down-Selection....Pages 99-106 Psyche, Signals and Systems....Pages 107-156 Federating and Integrating What We Know About the Brain at All Scales: Computer Science Meets the Clinical Neurosciences....Pages 157-170 Back Matter....Pages 171-172