Memory and Brain Dynamics: Oscillations Integrating Attention, Perception, Learning, and Memory

by Erol Basar

Overview

Memory itself is inseparable from all other brain functions and involves distributed dynamic neural processes. A wealth of publications in neuroscience literature report that the concerted action of distributed multiple oscillatory processes (EEG oscillations) play a major role in brain functioning. The analysis of function-related brain oscillations is currently one of the most important areas of neuroscience research.

Memory and Brain Dynamics: Oscillations Integrating Attention, Perception, Learning, and Memory bridges the disciplines of neurophysiology, cognitive psychology, and EEG brain dynamics to examine how the brain represents mental events that are interwoven with memory. The book presents a new study-framework that links oscillatory brain activity with the concept of dynamic memory. In the main portion of the text, the memory is treated as an alliance of attention, perception, learning, and memory. Empirical evidence is dealt with in separate sections from theory development, yet these two parts of the book are carefully combined to present a unique philosophical/scientific perspective on brain function.

Professor Erol Basar, Ph.D., is one of the pioneers emphasizing the importance of oscillatory brain dynamics for integrative brain function and memory since the 1970s.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415308366
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/23/2004
Series:	Conceptual Advances in Brain Research , #7
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Foundations. Introduction and Core Philosophy. Descriptions and Theories. Experiments and Their Interpretation. Dynamic Memory and Evolving Memory is Shaped by Reciprocal Activation of Attention, Perception, Learning and Remembering (APLR-Alliance). Perception and Memory - Related Oscillations in the Whole Brain. A Dynamic Causality Controlling Brain's Responsiveness and Memory: Prestimulus EEG Activity. Multiple Oscillations in the Brain are Correlated with Integrative Functions and Memory. Are Integrative Brain Functions Shaped by Superbinding and Selectively Distributed Oscillations. Grandmother Experiments in Perception and Memory. Memory Function: MODELS AND THEORIES. An EEG-related Model of “Memory States and Hierarchies”. New Trends in Memory Dynamics. Memory and Whole-Brain-Work.

Editorial Reviews

Empirical evidence is dealt with in separate sections from theory development, yet these two parts of the book are carefully combined to present a unique philosophical/scientific perspective on brain function.”
––in Zentralblatt Math, Vol. 1115 (2007/17)

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