Circuits in the Brain : A Model of Shape Processing in the Primary Visual Cortex - Legéndy, Charles; SpringerLink (Online service) (New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2009)
1. Concepts of brain theory -- Lettvin's Challenge -- Issues Concerning the Nature of Neuronal Response -- "Events" in the Brain -- Cell Assemblies -- Surprise, Statistical Inference, and Conceptual Notes -- A New Term: Ignitions Which "Reach" or "Don't Reach" a Neuron -- Confirmation Loops, Powered by Self-Ignitions -- Communicating "Relatedness" Through Time-Linked Ignitions -- Relational Firing: Broadcasting a Shape Through Time-Linked Ignitions -- 2. Contour strings and the contour wave -- Enter the Contour String -- Drift of the Retinal Image -- Theory of the Simple Cell -- Theory of the Complex Cell -- Corner Processing: Theory of the Hypercomplex Cell -- 3. Nodes, links, bridgeheads -- Nodes on Contour Strings -- Custom-Made Unstable Networks Made to Support Tracking -- Why Is the Drifting Retinal Image Helpful in Perception? -- The Maintenance of Moving Nodes and Bridgeheads -- 4. Firing games and the integration of contours -- Making the First Links by Crawling Along a Contour String -- Using Existing Links to Make New Links on the Same Contour -- Completing a Triangle of Links -- All-to-All Linkup on Smaller Shapes, Utilizing Chain Ignitions.
Keywords: Neurosciences; Philosophy; History; Neurobiology; Mathematical physics; Neurosciences; Philosophy, general; History of Science; Neurobiology; Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics