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How do Brains Work?

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Goals and Strategies in Brain Research: The Place of Comparative Neurology
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    Chapter 2 Mechanisms of Integration: What Parameters Control Output as Function of Input?
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    Chapter 3 Graded Signals: Is the All-Or-None Law Exceptional? Why Spikes?
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    Chapter 4 Codes in the Neurons: How is Information Represented in Brain Tissue?
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    Chapter 5 Reliability and Redundancy of Neurons: Can We Distinguish Probabilistic, Stochastic, and Noisy Processes?
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    Chapter 6 A Preparation for the Physiological Study of the Unit Synapse
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    Chapter 7 Measurement of Imposed Voltage Gradient Adequate to Modulate Neuronal Firing
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    Chapter 8 Intracellular Recording from the Giant Synapse of the Squid
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    Chapter 9 Diverse forms of Activity in the Somata of Spontaneous and Integrating Ganglion Cells
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    Chapter 10 Neuron Doctrine and Electrophysiology
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    Chapter 11 Modulation of Activity of One Neuron by Subthreshold Slow Potentials in Another in Lobster Cardiac Ganglion
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    Chapter 12 Pacemaker Neurons: Effects of Regularly Spaced Synaptic Input
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    Chapter 13 Circuitry and Beyond: How Far Does Connectivity Get Us?
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    Chapter 14 Equivalence Sets: How Many Kinds of Nerve Cells Are There?
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    Chapter 15 Physiology of an Infrared Receptor: The Facial Pit of Pit Vipers
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    Chapter 16 Evidence for a Category of Electroreceptors in the Lateral Line of Gymnotid Fishes
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    Chapter 17 Further Analysis of Sensory Coding in Electroreceptors of Electric Fish
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    Chapter 18 Coding Properties of Two Classes of Afferent Nerve Fibers: High-Frequency Electroreceptors in the Electric Fish, Eigenmannia
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    Chapter 19 General Introduction
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    Chapter 20 Lateral Line Research: Prospects and Opportunities
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    Chapter 21 Recognition: Are There Multiple Mechanisms for Filtering Complex Stimuli?
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    Chapter 22 Expectation: Is Stimulus-Specific Apparent Anticipation a Sign of Higher Function?
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    Chapter 23 Functional Organization of Receptive Fields of Movement Detecting Neurons in the Frog’s Retina
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    Chapter 24 Discrimination Among Temporal Patterns of Stimulation in a Computer Model of a Coelenterate Nerve Net
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    Chapter 25 Neuronal Mechanisms for Object Discrimination in the Weakly Electric Fish Eigenmannia Virescens
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    Chapter 26 The Sensory Functions of the Cerebellum of the Thornback Ray, Platyrhinoidis triseriata
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    Chapter 27 Cerebellum mediates modality-specific modulation of sensory responses of midbrain and forebrain in rat
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    Chapter 28 Physiology of lateral line mechanoreceptive regions in the elasmobranch brain
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    Chapter 29 Brain Waves: Is Synchrony a Sign of Higher Function? Is the EEG Basically Rhythmic?
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    Chapter 30 Problems in the Comparative Study of Brain Waves
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    Chapter 31 Electrical Signs of Activity in Assemblies of Neurons: Compound Field Potentials as Objects of Study in Their Own Right
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    Chapter 32 Comparison of ongoing compound field potentials in the brains of invertebrates and vertebrates
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    Chapter 33 Lateral coherence of the electrocorticogram: a new measure of brain synchrony
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    Chapter 34 Evoked and Event-Related Potentials: Has Evolution Altered Assembly Responses?
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    Chapter 35 Evoked Potentials in the Central Auditory System of Alert Porpoises to Their Own and Artificial Sounds
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    Chapter 36 Acoustic Evoked Activity in the Brain in Sharks
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    Chapter 37 Auditory brainstem response in dolphins
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    Chapter 38 Commentary Neuroethology Deserves More Study of Evoked Responses
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    Chapter 39 The Auditory Brain Stem Response in Five Vertebrate Classes
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    Chapter 40 Neuroethology: What Does It Mean for General Neurobiology?
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    Chapter 41 The Origins of Patterned Nervous Discharge
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    Chapter 42 The Jamming Avoidance Response of High Frequency Electric Fish
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    Chapter 43 Neuroethological Role of Dynamic Traits of Excitable Cells: A Proposal for the Physiological Basis of Slothfulness in the Sloth
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    Chapter 44 Significance of Findings on Electroreception for General Neurobiology
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    Chapter 45 Evolution of Nervous System: What’s So Special About Brains?
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    Chapter 46 The Phylogenetic Distribution of Electroreception: Evidence for Convergent Evolution of a Primitive Vertebrate Sense Modality
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    Chapter 47 Comparative Neuroscience Holds Promise for Quiet Revolutions
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    Chapter 48 ‘Simple’ model systems need comparative studies: differences areas important as commonalities
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    Chapter 49 Comparative Cognition: What Measures of Capacities Can Apply to Diverse Species?
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    Chapter 50 Afterthoughts on Animal Minds
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    Chapter 51 The Application of Scientific Evidence to the Issues of Use of Animals In Research: The Evolutionary Dimension in the Problem of Animal Awareness
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Title
How do Brains Work?
Published by
Birkhäuser Boston, January 1993
DOI 10.1007/978-1-4684-9427-3
ISBNs
978-1-4684-9429-7, 978-1-4684-9427-3
Authors

Theodore Holmes Bullock, Bullock, Theodore Holmes

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 1 50%
Student > Postgraduate 1 50%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Neuroscience 1 50%
Unknown 1 50%