The Neocortex
ISBN: 9780262043243 | Copyright 2019
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Experts review the latest research on the neocortex and consider potential directions for future research.
Over the past decade, technological advances have dramatically increased information on the structural and functional organization of the brain, especially the cerebral cortex. This explosion of data has radically expanded our ability to characterize neural circuits and intervene at increasingly higher resolutions, but it is unclear how has this informed our understanding of underlying mechanisms and processes.
In search of a conceptual framework to guide future research, leading researchers address in this volume the evolution and ontogenetic development of cortical structures, the cortical connectome, and functional properties of neuronal circuits and populations. They explore what constitutes “uniquely human” mental capacities and whether neural solutions and computations can be shared across species or repurposed for potentially uniquely human capacities.
Contributors
Danielle S. Bassett, Randy M. Bruno, Elizabeth A. Buffalo, Michael E. Coulter, Hermann Cuntz, Stanislas Dehaene, James DiCarlo, Pascal Fries, Karl J. Friston, Asif A. Ghazanfar, Anne-Lise Giraud, Joshua I. Gold, Scott T. Grafton, Jennifer M. Groh, Elizabeth A. Grove, Saskia Haegens, Kenneth D. Harris, Kristen M. Harris, Nicholas G. Hatsopoulos, Tarik F. Haydar, Takao K. Hensch, Wieland B. Huttner, Matthias Kaschube, Gilles Laurent, David A. Leopold, Johannes Leugering, Belen Lorente-Galdos, Jason N. MacLean, David A. McCormick, Lucia Melloni, Anish Mitra, Zoltán Molnár, Sydney K. Muchnik, Pascal Nieters, Marcel Oberlaender, Bijan Pesaran, Christopher I. Petkov, Gordon Pipa, David Poeppel, Marcus E. Raichle, Pasko Rakic, John H. Reynolds, Ryan V. Raut, John L. Rubenstein, Andrew B. Schwartz, Terrence J. Sejnowski, Nenad Sestan, Debra L. Silver, Wolf Singer, Peter L. Strick, Michael P. Stryker, Mriganka Sur, Mary Elizabeth Sutherland, Maria Antonietta Tosches, William A. Tyler, Martin Vinck, Christopher A. Walsh, Perry Zurn
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| Contents (pg. 5) | |
| Preface (pg. 7) | |
| List of Contributors (pg. 9) | |
| 1 Introduction (pg. 13) | |
| Evolution and Ontogenetic Development of Cortical Structures (pg. 21) | |
| 2 Cortical Specification and Neuronal Migration (pg. 23) | |
| 3 The Evolution of the Human Cerebral Cortex Development: A Genomic Perspective (pg. 43) | |
| 4 What Happens When It Goes Wrong?: Using Human Genetics to Understand Human Brain Development and Evolution (pg. 57) | |
| 5 Evolution and Ontogenetic Development of Cortical Structures (pg. 73) | |
| The Cortical Connectome (pg. 107) | |
| 6 Brain Networks: How Many Types Are There? (pg. 109) | |
| 7 Network Models in Neuroscience (pg. 121) | |
| 8 Neuronal Morphology and Its Significance (pg. 137) | |
| 9 Functional Architectureof the Cerebral Cortex (pg. 153) | |
| Functional Properties of Circuits, Cellular Population, and Areal Level (pg. 177) | |
| 10 Cortical Dynamics (pg. 179) | |
| 11 Computational Elements of Circuits (pg. 207) | |
| 12 Coding in Large-Scale Cortical Populations (pg. 223) | |
| 13 Functional Properties of Circuits, Cellular Populations, and Areas (pg. 235) | |
| Complexity and Computationin Human Cognition (pg. 279) | |
| 14 Complexity and Computation in the Brain: The Knowns and the Known Unknowns (pg. 281) | |
| 15 Human Singularity and Symbolic Tree Structures: The Demdularization Hypothesis (pg. 305) | |
| 16 Phylogeny and Ontogeny in Human Neuroscience (pg. 323) | |
| 17 Computation and Its Neural Implementationin Human Cognition (pg. 335) | |
| Bibliography (pg. 359) | |
| Subject Index (pg. 437) | |
| Strüngmann Forum Report Series (pg. 447) | |
