Principles of Brain Dynamics: Global State Interactions (Computational Neuroscience Series) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0262017644 ISBN 13: 9780262017640

Publisher: The MIT Press, 2012

Synopsis

Experimental and theoretical approaches to global brain dynamics that draw on the latest research in the field.

The consideration of time or dynamics is fundamental for all aspects of mental activity―perception, cognition, and emotion―because the main feature of brain activity is the continuous change of the underlying brain states even in a constant environment. The application of nonlinear dynamics to the study of brain activity began to flourish in the 1990s when combined with empirical observations from modern morphological and physiological observations. This book offers perspectives on brain dynamics that draw on the latest advances in research in the field. It includes contributions from both theoreticians and experimentalists, offering an eclectic treatment of fundamental issues.

Topics addressed range from experimental and computational approaches to transient brain dynamics to the free-energy principle as a global brain theory. The book concludes with a short but rigorous guide to modern nonlinear dynamics and their application to neural dynamics.

About this title

About the Author:

Mikhail I. Rabinovich is Research Scientist at the BioCircuits Institute at the University of California, San Diego.

Karl J. Friston is Wellcome Principal Fellow and Scientific Director of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging and a Professor at University College London.

Pablo Varona is Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

Karl J. Friston is Wellcome Principal Fellow and Scientific Director of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging and a Professor at University College London.

Mikhail I. Rabinovich is Research Scientist at the BioCircuits Institute at the University of California, San Diego.

Review:

Edited volumes are rarely this exciting. Coherently focusing on the challenging issues of brain dynamics, both the editors and contributors cover (and explain!) important topics from theoretical models to EEG data mining, from structural complexity to functional dynamic. Principles of Brain Dynamics is an excellent compendium of both methods and ideas, and a must-have volume for those of us interested in brain mechanisms of information transmission.

―György Buzsáki, Biggs Professor of Neuroscience at The Neuroscience Institute, New York University, School of Medicine; author of Rhythms of the Brain

About this edition

• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0262017644
• ISBN 13: 9780262017640
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 344
• Editor: Rabinovich Mikhail I., Friston Karl J., Varona Pablo