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Thomas H. Jobe
This book is composed of papers given at the International Symposium on Information Processing in the Somatosensory System held in 1995. It brings together the leaders in this field and presents a broad range of methods. The chapters divide the contributions by methods. These groupings include ion channels and neurotransmitters, psychophysics of somatosensation, cortical representation of somatosensation, sensory-motor interface, and neuronal population behavior exhibited by imaging techniques. Finally, there are a group of contributions on cortical neurocomputation and modeling. The purpose is to bring together these quite different methods in the hope of giving clarity to the structure and progress of the field. The editors succeed in this endeavor by insisting on extensive summaries or conclusions at the end of each chapter. This allows the authors to position their work in the larger framework of the volume. The audience may be reasonably specialized for this work. The research is highly sophisticated, and many of the techniques and terms will be difficult to understand without prior knowledge of this field. The volume is best used by researchers in the field or by other interested neuroscientists. Clinicians may have some difficulty with this volume. This book is elegantly bound with high quality paper and many useful illustrations. Many of the illustrations are crucially important to understanding the text. More illustrations would further improve the volume. This is an authoritative and well-organized presentation with some outstanding research contributions. Of note is the work of Oleg Favorov and Douglas Kelly on a cortical model of somatosensory function thatinvolves an analysis of minicolumns and larger segregates or cortical modules. Their work provides a unified computational approach to this area.Booknews
Compiles the current research on somatosensation and its underlying mechanisms, covering the structural basis of information processing and neocortical neurotransmitters, the psychophysics, cortical representation, sensory-motor interface, neuronal population behavior, and cortical neurocomputation and modelling. Describes advances in methods and technologies as well as findings from them, and encompasses levels of inquiry from ionic channels, single-unit records of neural activity, and functional brain imaging of the coordinated activity of large neuronal ensembles; to the human psychophysics of controlled natural somatic stimulation. The 34 papers are from a symposium, the date and location of which are not noted. Reproduced from typescripts, some of which are double spaced. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)From The Critics
Reviewer: Thomas H. Jobe, MD(University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine)Description: This book is composed of papers given at the International Symposium on Information Processing in the Somatosensory System held in 1995. It brings together the leaders in this field and presents a broad range of methods. The chapters divide the contributions by methods. These groupings include ion channels and neurotransmitters, psychophysics of somatosensation, cortical representation of somatosensation, sensory-motor interface, and neuronal population behavior exhibited by imaging techniques. Finally, there are a group of contributions on cortical neurocomputation and modeling.
Purpose: The purpose is to bring together these quite different methods in the hope of giving clarity to the structure and progress of the field. The editors succeed in this endeavor by insisting on extensive summaries or conclusions at the end of each chapter. This allows the authors to position their work in the larger framework of the volume.
Audience: The audience may be reasonably specialized for this work. The research is highly sophisticated, and many of the techniques and terms will be difficult to understand without prior knowledge of this field. The volume is best used by researchers in the field or by other interested neuroscientists. Clinicians may have some difficulty with this volume.
Features: This book is elegantly bound with high quality paper and many useful illustrations. Many of the illustrations are crucially important to understanding the text. More illustrations would further improve the volume.
Assessment: This is an authoritative and well-organized presentation with some outstanding research contributions. Of note is the work of Oleg Favorov and Douglas Kelly on a cortical model of somatosensory function that involves an analysis of minicolumns and larger segregates or cortical modules. Their work provides a unified computational approach to this area.
3 Stars from Doody
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