Principles of Brain Functioning

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XIII

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2. Prologue

   1. Prologue

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      Pages 1-3

3. Foundations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-5

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   2. Introduction

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      Pages 7-11

   3. Exploring the Brain

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      Pages 13-30

   4. Modeling the Brain. A First Attempt: The Brain as a Dynamical System

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      Pages 31-33

   5. Basic Concepts of Synergetics I: Order Parameters and the Slaving Principle

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      Pages 35-49

   6. Dynamics of Order Parameters

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      Pages 51-63

4. Behavior

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 65-65

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   2. Movement Coordination — Movement Patterns

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      Pages 67-90

   3. More on Finger Movements

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      Pages 91-115

   4. Learning

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      Pages 117-122

   5. Animal Gaits and Their Transitions

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      Pages 123-147

   6. Basic Concepts of Synergetics II: Formation of Spatio-temporal Patterns

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      Pages 149-155

   7. Analysis of Spatio-temporal Patterns

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      Pages 157-171

   8. Movements on a Pedalo

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      Pages 173-191

5. EEG and MEG

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 193-193

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   2. Chaos, Chaos, Chaos

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      Pages 195-201

   3. Analysis of Electroencephalograms

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      Pages 203-217

   4. Analysis of MEG Patterns

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      Pages 219-235

It is increasingly being recognized that the experimental and theoretical study of the complex system brain requires the cooperation of many disciplines, in­ cluding biology, medicine, physics, chemistry, mathematics, computer science, linguistics, and others. In this way brain research has become a truly interdis­ ciplinary endeavor. Indeed, the most important progress is quite often made when different disciplines cooperate. Thus it becomes necessary for scientists to look across the fence surrounding their disciplines. The present book is written precisely in this spirit. It addresses graduate students, professors and scientists in a variety of fields, such as biology, medicine and physics. Be­ yond its mathematical representation the book gives ample space to verbal and pictorial descriptions of the main and, as I believe, fundamental new insights, so that it will be of interest to a general readership, too. I use this opportunity to thank my former students, some of whom are my present co-workers, for their cooperation over many years. Among them I wish to mention in particular M. Bestehorn, L. Borland, H. Bunz, A. Daf­ fertshofer, T. Ditzinger, E. Fischer, A. Fuchs, R. Haas, R. Honlinger, V. Jirsa, M. Neufeld, M. Ossig, D. Reimann, M. Schanz, G. Schoner, P. Tass, C. Uhl. My particular thanks go to R. Friedrich and A. Wunderlin for their constant help in many respects. Stimulating discussions with a number of colleagues from a variety of fields are also highly appreciated.

• EEG
• Movement Control
• Vision
• brain
• cognition
• electroencephalography (EEG)

• Institut für Theoretische Physik und Synergetik, Universität Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

  Hermann Haken

• Center for Complex Systems, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, USA

  Hermann Haken

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