Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience articles from July 1996

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience archives from July 1996

Modeling the temporal dynamics of IT neurons in visual search: a mechanism for top-down selective attention. (infero temporal)
July 1, 1996... INTRODUCTION Visual selective attention has been the subject of intensive research and debate in both behavioral vision research and in physiology. A first distinction in the analysis of visual information processing is usually made between...

Effects of LTP on response selectivity of simulated cortical neurons. (long-term potentiation)
July 1, 1996... INTRODUCTION Long-term potentiation (LTP) has been shown to occur in hippocampal archicortex (Bliss & Lomo, 1973), olfactory paleocortex (Jung, Larson, & Lynch, 1990) and neo-cortex (Kanter & Haberly, 1990; Iriki, Pavlides, Keller, & Asanuma,...

The magnitude of the fixation offset effect with endogenously and exogenously controlled saccades.
July 1, 1996... INTRODUCTION Saccadic latencies toward a peripheral target are reduced when the fixation stimulus is extinguished prior to target onset (Saslow, 1967). Indeed, in some conditions subjects may execute many stimulus controlled saccades within...

Dual population coding in the neocortex: a model of interaction between representation and attention in the visual cortex.
July 1, 1996... INTRODUCTION Mental representations can be broken down into separate representations, including visual, auditive, somesthesic, motor representations, or even more abstract representations such as phonological or semantic representations....

Imagining real and unreal things: evidence of a dissociation in autism.
July 1, 1996... INTRODUCTION The debate concerning the nature of the cognitive processes involved in generating visual mental images has been explored in depth over the past decade. Two main hypotheses can be identified: (1) Visual mental images are...

An Introduction in Neural Networks.
July 1, 1996... The past two decades have seen explosive growth in knowledge about animal nervous systems. At the same time, interest in computers and computing systems has evolved beyond a sequential, von Neuman approach, especially for dealing with ill-posed...

The Engine of Reason, the Seat of the Soul: A Philosophical Journey into the Brain.
July 1, 1996... By the time you finish Engine of Reason, Seat of the Soul, its author, the philosopher of science Paul Churchland, hopes that you will "reconceive at least some of your own mental life in explicitly neurocomputational terms." That's just what...

Dynamic Patterns: The Self-Organization of Brain and Behavior.
July 1, 1996... Professor Kelso's book offers a thorough view of his scientific ideas and on his experimental work as it has developed over the past two decades. He presents the intriguing hypothesis that the mechanisms underlying mental activities, perception,...