Information Processing in The Nervous System

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Automata Theory

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Automata Theory as an Abstract Boundary Condition for the Study of Information Processing in the Nervous System

      • Michael A. Arbib

      Pages 3-19

   3. Hierarchical Organization in Automata Theoretic Models of the Central Nervous System

      • Robert Rosen

      Pages 21-35

   4. The Non-local Storage and Associative Retrieval of Spatio-Temporal Patterns

      • H. C. Longuet-Higgins

      Pages 37-47

3. Linguistics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 49-49

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   2. On the Complexity of Language Processing by the Brain

      • P. Stanley Peters Jr.

      Pages 51-83

   3. Context-Sensitive Coding in Speech Recognition, Articulation and Developments

      • Wayne A. Wickelgren

      Pages 85-96

   4. The Speech Code and the Physiology of Language

      • Ignatius G. Mattingly, Alvin M. Liberman

      Pages 97-117

4. Psychophysiology

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 119-119

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   2. Repetition, Visual Persistence, Visual Noise and Information Processing

      • Ralph Norman Haber

      Pages 121-140

   3. Behavioral and Electrophysiological Studies of Visual Masking

      • Peter H. Schiller

      Pages 141-165

   4. Temporal Summation During Backward Visual Masking

      • R. M. Boynton

      Pages 167-176

   5. Toward a Theory of Man: Precision of Essentic Form in Living Communication

      • Manfred Clynes

      Pages 177-206

5. Neurophysiology

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 207-207

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   2. Trigger Features, Adaptation and Economy of Impulses

      • H. B. Barlow

      Pages 209-230

   3. Information Processing in the Motorsensory Cortex

      • Vernon B. Brooks

      Pages 231-243

   4. The Dynamic Loop Hypothesis of Movement Control

      • J. C. Eccles

      Pages 245-269

6. Models and Theory

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 271-271

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   2. On Synaptic Transmission, Neural Signals and Psychophysiological Phenomena

      • K. N. Leibovic, N. H. Sabah

      Pages 273-292

In recent years, several symposia have been held on subjects relating to the general theme of information processing in the nervous system. It is now widely recognized that this whole field is rapidly developing and changing in a manner beyond our imaginings of a few years ago. When confronted with conceptual revolutions of this kind, it is justifiable to have a continued on-going discourse and disputation so that there is maximum opportunity for interaction between the leaders of thought in all the re­ lated disciplines. The conference organized by K. N. Leibovic, and held at the State University of New York at Buffalo from October 21st to 24th, 1968, made a notable contribution to this interaction. It is fortunate that there is here being published, not only the papers contributed to the sym­ posium, but also much of the stimulating discussion. The term "neuronal machinery" can be validly used because there is now good understanding of the operational mechanisms of at least some of the neuronal centers in the brain, and our knowledge of these mechanisms is progressing in a most encouraging manner. The stated objective by Prof. Leibovic, the organizer of the symposium, was that it was designed to cor­ relate neuronal machinery with psychophysiological phenomena. He calls attention to the urgency of achieving a common conceptual basis for neuro­ anatomy, neurophysiology, and psychology.

• adaptation
• brain
• central nervous system
• cognition
• nervous system
• neurophysiology
• physiology

• Department of Biophysical Sciences, State University of New York at Buffalo, Amherst, USA

  K. N. Leibovic

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