Perceptual Neuroscience: The Cerebral CortexThe cerebral cortex, occupying over 70 percent of our brain mass, is key to any understanding of the workings--and disorders--of the human brain. offering a comprehensive account of the role of the cerebral cortex in perception, this monumental work by one of the world's greatest living neuroscientists does nothing short of creating a new subdiscipline in the field: perceptual neuroscience. For this undertaking, Vernon Mountcastle has gathered information from a vast number of sources reaching back through two centuries of investigation into the intrinsic operations of the cortex. His survey includes phylogenetic, comparative, and neuroanatomical studies of the neocortex; studies of the large-scale organization of the neocortex, of neuronal histogenesis and the specification of cortical areas, of synaptic transmission between neurons in cortical microcircuits, and of rhythmicity and synchronization in neocortical networks; and inquiries into the binding problem--how activities among the separate processing nodes of distributed systems coalesce in a coherent activity that we call perception. The first book to summarize what is known about the physiology of the cortex in perception, Perceptual Neuroscience will be a landmark in the literature of neuroscience. |
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... Peptides 59 Classes of Neocortical Inhibitory Interneurons 60 The Intrinsic Circuitry of the Neocortex 64 Specific Thalamocortical Afferents 65 Intrinsic Circuits 67 Horizontal Intracortical Connections 68 The Layer I Circuit 70 The ...
... Peptides 130 Presynaptic Inhibition 131 Integrative Functions of Dendrites and Spines 132 Volume Transmission Is a Second Mode of Interneuronal Communication in the Neocortex 134 Summary 135 6 Activity - Dependent Changes in Synaptic ...
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Contents
Perception and the Cerebral Cortex | 1 |
The Phylogenetic Development of the Cerebral Cortex | 19 |
Cells and Local Networks of the Neocortex | 50 |
The Organization of the Neocortex | 78 |
Synaptic Transmission in the Neocortex | 103 |
Storage and Release of Synaptic Transmitters | 113 |
Direct Synaptic Transmission in the Neocortex | 119 |
ActivityDependent Changes in Synaptic Strength in the Hippocampus and Neocortex | 137 |
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Dynamic Operations in Neocortical Networks | 284 |
Modulatory Control of Intrinsic Neocortical | 307 |
The Layer V Hypothesis of Cortical Function | 313 |
Rhythmicity and Synchronization in Neocortical Networks | 317 |
The Human EEG | 320 |
The Thalamus as Neuronal Oscillator and the Generation | 328 |
Spatial Inhomogeneities and the MicroEEG | 335 |
The Columnar Organization of the Neocortex | 165 |
Metabolic and Blood Flow Studies in the First Somatic | 175 |
Physiological Studies of Homotypical Cortical Areas | 185 |
Columniation by Intrinsic Connectivity | 192 |
A Central Core System Projecting to the Cortex without | 202 |
Secondary Events in Cortical Histogenesis and | 227 |
Local Synaptogenesis and the Role of Activity in Refining | 233 |
The Specification of Axonal Projections by Selective Collateral | 240 |
The Rodent Model and the Peripheral Blueprint | 249 |