Memory, Learning, and Higher Function - Woody, C. D.

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Sommaire:
1 Commonsense Views of Memory and Learning Obtained from Philosophy.- Knowledge, Recollection, Perception.- Inference and Experience.- Sensation, Neural Activation, Neural Adaptation.- Feedback: Orderly Learning and Memory.- Cybernetic Analysis.- 2 The Reflex and Behavior.- The Reflex.- Adaptive Reflexes.- Behavioral Outcomes of Simple Adaptive Reflex Operations.- Review of Behavioral Outcomes of Repetitively Induced Reflex Adaptations.- Behavioral Outcomes of Associatively Induced Reflex Adaptations.- 3 Associative Processes and Behavioral Psychology.- Philosophic Significance of Association.- Critical Variables Controlling Associatively Induced Adaptations.- What Happens to Networks of Adaptive Reflexes as a Consequence of Stimulus Association?.- What Happens to Adaptive Reflexes as a Consequence of the State of the Organism?.- Specific Behavior as a Consequence of Specific Reflex Operations Altered by Specific Neural Adaptations.- Differences in Motor and Sensory Adaptation Inferred from Patterns of Motor and Sensory Generalization.- Mapping the Reflex Through Sets of Adaptive Neurons.- 4 Cellular Correlates of Learned Behavior.- E1ectrophysiologic Correlates of Behavior.- The Tracking of Engrams.- Neural Stimulation and Behavioral Changes.- Neural Stimulation and Cellular Changes.- Summary.- 5 Subcellular Substrates of Learning and Memory.- Theories of Cellular Plasticity.- Ionic Conductance Mechanisms Mediating Neuronal Changes.- Critical Variables Controlling Changes in Membrane Conductance.- Control of Neuronal Adaptation.- Selected Techniques for Studying Cellular Plasticity.- 6 Reflex Circuitry Supporting Higher Functions.- to Higher Functions.- The Mnemonic Process and Amnesia.- Korsakoff's Syndrome.- Stable versus Dynamic Memory Storage.- Mnemonic Features Revealed by Electrical Stimulation of the Brain.- Interconnected Adaptive Networks of Functional Significance.- Complexities of Sensory Perception and Motor Synthesis Revealed by Lesions and by Exceptional Stimuli.- Agnosia, Apraxia, and Aphasia.- Commissural and Transcallosal Control of Information Processing in Split-Brain Experiments.- Evidence for the Separation of Perceptual and Conceptual Functions.- Perception and Primary Image Construction.- Conceptualization, Linguistics, and Extended Image Formation.- Can One Have Abstract Conceptualization Without Linguistics?.- What is Perceptual Function Physiologically?.- What Is Conceptual Function Physiologically?.- Higher Function and the Organization of the Neural Network.- 7 Cybernetics: A Means for Analysis of Neural Networks.- Constraints.- Processing of Information by Automata.- Analysis.- General Theories of Information Handling.- Specific Theories of Line Labeled Information Handling.- Evaluation of the Merit of the Analysis.- Epilogue.- References.