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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786733403321

Titolo

Spike timing : mechanisms and function / / edited by Patricia M. DiLorenzo, Jonathan D. Victor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boca Raton : , : Taylor & Francis/CRC Press, , 2013

ISBN

0-429-10618-1

1-4398-3816-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (411 p.)

Collana

Frontiers in neuroscience

Altri autori (Persone)

DiLorenzoPatricia M

VictorJ. D (Jonathan D.)

Disciplina

612.8/1046

Soggetti

Synapses

Neural transmission

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.

Nota di contenuto

Spike trains as event sequences : fundamental implications / Jonathan D. Victor and Sheila Nirenberg -- Neural coding and decoding with spike times / Ran Rubin, Robert Gütig, and Haim Sompolinsky -- Can we predict every spike? / Richard Naud and Wolfram Gerstner -- Statistical identification of synchronous spiking / Matthew T. Harrison, Asohan Amarasingham, and Robert E. Kass -- Binless estimation of mutual information in metric spaces / Ayelet-Hashahar Shapira, Jonathan D. Victor, and Israel Nelken -- Measuring information in spike trains about intrinsic brain signals / Gautam Agarwal and Friedrich T. Sommer -- Role of oscillation-enhanced neural precision in information transmission between brain areas / Paul H. Tiesinga, Saša Koželj, and Francesco P. Battaglia -- Timing information in insect mechanosensory systems / Alexander G. Dimitrov and Zane N. Aldworth -- Neural encoding of dynamic inputs by spike timing / Matthew H. Higgs and William J. Spain -- Relating spike times to perception : auditory detection and discrimination / Laurel H. Carney -- Spike timing and neural codes for odors / Sam Reiter and Mark Stopfer -- Spike timing as a mechanism for taste coding in the brainstem / Patricia M. Di Lorenzo -- Increases in spike timing precision improves gustatory Discrimination upon Learning / Ranier Gutierrez and Sidney A. Simon -- Spike timing in early stages of visual processing / Paul R.



Martin and Samuel G. Solomon -- Cortical computations using relative spike timing / Timothy J. Gawne.

Sommario/riassunto

Neuronal communication forms the basis for all behavior, from the smallest movement to our grandest thought processes. Among the many mechanisms that support these functions, spike timing is among the most powerful and-until recently-perhaps the least studied. In the last two decades, however, the study of spike timing has exploded. The heightened interest is due to several factors. These include the development of physiological tools for measuring the activity of neural ensembles and analytical tools for assessing and characterizing spike timing. These advances are coupled with a growing appr

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778802203321

Titolo

Empathy : from bench to bedside / / edited by Jean Decety

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2012

©2012

ISBN

0-262-29773-6

1-283-44889-0

9786613448897

0-262-29861-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (335 p.)

Collana

Social neuroscience series

Altri autori (Persone)

DecetyJean

Disciplina

152.4/1

Soggetti

Empathy

Neurosciences

Social psychology

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 indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction: Why Is Empathy so Important?; I Philosophical and Anthropological Perspectives on Empathy; 1 Empathy without Isomorphism: A Phenomenological Account; 2 Empathy, Evolution, and Human Nature; II The Contribution of Social Psychology; 3 The Empathy-Altruism Hypothesis: Issues and Implications; 4 It's More than



Skin Deep: Empathy and Helping Behavior across Social Groups ; 5 Empathy Is Not Always as Personal as You May Think: The Use of Stereotypes in Empathic Accuracy; III Evolutionary Roots of Empathy; 6 Empathy in Primates and Other Mammals

IV The Development of Empathy7 Nature and Forms of Empathy in the First Years of Life; 8 Social-Cognitive Contributors to Young Children's Empathic and Prosocial Behavior; 9 Relations of Empathy-Related Responding to Children's and Adolescents' Social Competence; V The Neuroscience of Empathy and Caring; 10 How Children Develop Empathy: The Contribution of Developmental Affective Neuroscience; 11 Empathy and Compassion: A Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective; 12 The Cognitive Neuroscience of Sharing and Understanding Others' Emotions; VI Empathy in Clinical Practice

13 Clinical Empathy in Medical Care14 The Costs of Empathy among Health Professionals; 15 The Empathic Response in Clinical Practice: Antecedents and Consequences; 16 The Paradox of Teaching Empathy in Medical Education; 17 Empathy and Neuroscience: A Psychoanalytic Perspective; Contributors; Author Index; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

Recent work on empathy theory, research, and applications, by scholars from disciplines ranging from neuroscience to psychoanalysis.