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Record Nr.

UNINA9910449867503321

Titolo

Theory of cortical plasticity [[electronic resource] /] / Leon Cooper ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Jersey, : World Scientific, 2004

ISBN

1-281-87249-0

9786611872496

981-256-255-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (333 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

CooperLeon N

Disciplina

612.8/25

Soggetti

Neuroplasticity

Neuroplasticity - Mathematical models

Cerebral cortex

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Theory of Cortical Plasticity; Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; The Software Package, Plasticity; Notation; Common Acronyms and Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. Single Cell Theory; 3. Objective Function Formulation; 4. Cortical Network Theory; 5. Review and Analysis of Second Order Learning Rules; 6. Receptive field selectivity in a natural image environment; 7. Ocular dominance in normal and deprived cortex; 8. Networks of Interacting BCM Neurons; 9. Experimental evidence for the assumptions and consequences of the BCM theory; Bibliography

Sommario/riassunto

In Theory of Cortical Plasticity, Nobel Laureate Leon Cooper and his collaborators present a systematic development of the Bienenstock, Cooper and Munro (BCM) theory of synaptic plasticity, and discuss experiments that test both its assumptions and consequences.This insightful book provides an elegant analysis of theoretical structure in neuroscience research, and elucidates the role BCM theory has played in guiding research leading to our present understanding of the mechanisms underlying cortical plasticity.