Table of Contents
Preface, J. Leo van Hemmen and Terrence J. SejnowskiSection 1. How have brains evolved? 1. Shall we ever understand the fly's brain?, Gilles Laurent2. Can we understand the action of brain in natural environments?, Hermann Wagner and Bernhard Gaese3. Hemisphere dominance of brain function-which functions are lateralized and why?, Gunther EhrSection 2. How is the cerebral cortex organized? 4. What is the function of the thalamus?, S. Murray Sherman5. What is a neuronal map, how does it arise, and what is it good for?, J. Leo van Hemmen6. What is the role of top-down connections?, Jean BullierSection 3. How do neurons interact? 7. How fast is neuronal signal transmission?, Wulfram Gerstner8. What is the origin and functional properties of irregular activity?, Dr. Carl van Vreeswi9. Are single cortical neurons independent or are they obedient members of a huge orchestra?, Amiram Grinvald, Tal Kenet, Amos Arieli, and Misha Tsodyks10. What is the other 85% of V1 doing?, Bruno A. Olshausen and David J. FieldSection 4. What can brains compute? 11. What is the formal computation in early vision?, Steven W. Zuck12. Are neurons adapted for specific computations?, Catherine Carr, D. Soňares, S. Parameshwaran, S. Kalluri, J. Simon, and T. Perney13. How can neural systems compute in the time domain, Andreas V.M. Herz14. How common are neural codes?, David McAlpine and Alan R. Palmer15. How does the hearing system perform auditory scene analysis?, Georg Klump16. How does our visual system achieve shift and size invariance?, Laurenz WiskottSection 5Organization of cognitive systems. 17. What is reflected in sensory neocortical activity: External stimuli or what the cortex does with them?, Henning Scheich, Frank W. Ohl, Holger Schulze, Andreas Hess, and Andre Brechmann18. To what extent does perception depend upon action?, Giacomo Rizzolatti and Vittorio Gallese19. What are the projective fields of cortical neurons?, Terrence J. Sejnowski20. To what extent is the brain reconfigurable?, John Reynolds21. Where are the switches on this thing?, Laurence Abbott22. Do qualia, metaphor, language, and abstract thought emerge from synesthesia, V.S. Ramachandran and Edward M. Hubbard23. What are the neural correlates of consciousness?, Francis Crick and Christof Koch