1st Edition

Memory and Brain Dynamics Oscillations Integrating Attention, Perception, Learning, and Memory

By Erol Basar Copyright 2004
    288 Pages 5 Color & 106 B/W Illustrations
    by CRC Press

    Memory itself is inseparable from all other brain functions and involves distributed dynamic neural processes. A wealth of publications in neuroscience literature report that the concerted action of distributed multiple oscillatory processes (EEG oscillations) play a major role in brain functioning. The analysis of function-related brain oscillations is currently one of the most important areas of neuroscience research.

    Memory and Brain Dynamics: Oscillations Integrating Attention, Perception, Learning, and Memory bridges the disciplines of neurophysiology, cognitive psychology, and EEG brain dynamics to examine how the brain represents mental events that are interwoven with memory. The book presents a new study-framework that links oscillatory brain activity with the concept of dynamic memory. In the main portion of the text, the memory is treated as an alliance of attention, perception, learning, and memory. Empirical evidence is dealt with in separate sections from theory development, yet these two parts of the book are carefully combined to present a unique philosophical/scientific perspective on brain function.

    Professor Erol Basar, Ph.D., is one of the pioneers emphasizing the importance of oscillatory brain dynamics for integrative brain function and memory since the 1970s.

    PART 1. FOUNDATIONS
    Introduction and Core Philosophy
    Descriptions and Theories
    PART 2. EXPERIMENTS AND THEIR INTERPRETATION
    Dynamic Memory and Evolving Memory is Shaped by Reciprocal Activation of Attention, Perception, Learning and Remembering (APLR-Alliance)
    Perception and Memory - Related Oscillations in the Whole Brain
    A Dynamic Causality Controlling Brain's Responsiveness and Memory: Prestimulus EEG Activity
    Multiple Oscillations in the Brain are Correlated with Integrative Functions and Memory
    Are Integrative Brain Functions Shaped by Superbinding and Selectively Distributed Oscillations?
    Grandmother Experiments in Perception and Memory
    PART 3. MEMORY FUNCTION: MODELS AND THEORIES
    An EEG-related Model of “Memory States and Hierarchies”
    New Trends in Memory Dynamics
    Memory and Whole-Brain-Work

    Biography

    Basar\, Erol

    “Empirical evidence is dealt with in separate sections from theory development, yet these two parts of the book are carefully combined to present a unique philosophical/scientific perspective on brain function.”
    ––in Zentralblatt Math, Vol. 1115 (2007/17)