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Cortico-Hippocampal Interplay and the Representation of Contexts in the Brain

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  • © 1991

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Authors:
  1. Robert Miller

    1. Department of Anatomy, University of Otago Medical School, Dunedin, New Zealand

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Part of the book series: Studies of Brain Function (BRAIN FUNCTION, volume 17)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Statement of the Problem

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Historical Introduction

      • Robert Miller
      Pages 3-10

    3. Designs for a Prototype Cerebral Cortex

      • Robert Miller
      Pages 11-32

  3. Reviews Of The Experimental Evidence Relevant To The Formulation Of The Theory Of Cortico-Hippocampal Interaction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 33-33
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    2. Anatomy of the Hippocampal Complex and Related Regions

      • Robert Miller
      Pages 35-59

    3. Discovery and General Behavioural Correlates of the Hippocampal Theta Rhythm

      • Robert Miller
      Pages 60-86

    4. The Septum as a Pacemaker for the Hippocampal Theta Rhythm

      • Robert Miller
      Pages 87-98

    5. Subdivision of Theta Types According to Sources of Extra-Hippocampal Control

      • Robert Miller
      Pages 99-109

    6. Evidence for Multiple Sources of Theta Generation in the Hippocampus and Related Structures

      • Robert Miller
      Pages 110-127

    7. Towards a Neuronal Model to Account for the Laminar Waveforms of Theta Activity

      • Robert Miller
      Pages 128-156

  4. The Theory of Resonant, Self-Organizing Phase-Locked Loops

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 157-157
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    2. Cortico-Hippocampal Interaction: Theory, Implications and Predictions

      • Robert Miller
      Pages 159-188

    3. Theta Activity and Learning

      • Robert Miller
      Pages 189-215

    4. Synopsis and Epilogue

      • Robert Miller
      Pages 216-223

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 224-269
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1. 1 Contexts The principal issue with which this monograph deals is the role of the hippocam­ pus in establishing and using representations of contexts for information processing. However, before this issue can be addressed directly, it is necessary to ask "what is meant by the word 'context' ?". The first answer which comes to mind is likely to be something along the following lines: "A context is a framework (or background) of information with respect to whieh more specific 'items' ofinformation can be identified and manipulated". This answer may be correct, but it begs a fundamental question. Why should it be necessary to subdivide information into specific "items" of information, and the more global backgrounds, or frameworks? This question is especially pertinent if we are thinking of information representation in the brain, since neuroscientists (or at least the vast majority of them) believe that the basic way in whieh patterns of information are encoded in the brain is as combinations of connections, selected in a variety of ways. Since both "items" of information and "contexts" are just such patterns, apparently differing only in size, it is far from clear why there should be a categorical division between the two. ! This question is relatively new in the neurosciences. However, in a somewhat different guise it has been alive for a long time, since the publication ofImmanuel Kant's Critique 01 Pure Reason.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Anatomy, University of Otago Medical School, Dunedin, New Zealand

    Robert Miller

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Cortico-Hippocampal Interplay and the Representation of Contexts in the Brain

  • Authors: Robert Miller

  • Series Title: Studies of Brain Function

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-21732-0

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1991

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-21734-4Published: 20 November 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-21732-0Published: 29 June 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0172-5742

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 269

  • Number of Illustrations: 62 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Neurosciences, Computer Appl. in Life Sciences

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