Invariants of Behavior - Constancy and Variability in Neural Systems

The study of the brain and behavior is illuminated with the discovery of invariances.Experimental brain research uncovers constancies amidst variation, with respect to interventions and transformations prescribed by experimental paradigms.Place cells, mirror neurons, event related potentials and areas differentially active in fMRI, all illustrate the pervasive role of invariances in neural systems in relation to their function.

List of contents

1 Invariants of Behavior: Constancy and Variability in Neural Systems and Behavior.- Summary.- Acknowledgements.- Foreword.- Part I Invariants of Behavior.- 2 Introduction.- 3 Invariances in Theory.- 4 Empirical Assessments of Invariance.- 5 Modeling and Invariance.- 6 Dynamical Systems and Convergence.- 7 Neurons, Models and Invariants.- Part II Neurodynamics of Embodied Behavior.- 8 Neurodynamics and Evolutionary Robotics.- 9 Attractor Landscapes in Active Tracking.- Appendix: Learning.- Appendix: Related Work.- References.- 10 Convergent Evolution of Behavioral Function.- 11 Neural Communication: Messages between Modules.

Summary

The study of the brain and behavior is illuminated with the discovery of invariances.

Experimental brain research uncovers constancies amidst variation, with respect to interventions and transformations prescribed by experimental paradigms.

Place cells, mirror neurons, event related potentials and areas differentially active in fMRI, all illustrate the pervasive role of invariances in neural systems in relation to their function.

Product details

• Authors: Mario Negrello
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.12.2010
• EAN: 9781441988034
• ISBN: 978-1-4419-8803-4
• No. of pages: 252
• Weight: 520 g
• Illustrations: XX, 252 p.
• Series: Springer Series in Cognitive and Neural Systems; Springer Series in Cognitive and Neural Systems
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; B, Neuroscience, computer science, Neurosciences, Theory of Computation, Biomedical and Life Sciences, Zoology, Computers, Neurobiology, Computation by Abstract Devices