A Personal Account of the Development of the Field Theory of Large-Scale Brain Activity from 1945 Onward
In this paper I give my personal perspective on the development of a field theory of large-scale brain activity. I review early work by Pitts, Wiener, Beurle and others, and give an account of the development of the mean-field Wilson-Cowan equations. I th
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Fields
Theory and Applications
Neural Fields
Stephen Coombes • Peter beim Graben • Roland Potthast • James Wright Editors
Neural Fields Theory and Applications
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Editors Stephen Coombes School of Mathematical Sciences University of Nottingham Nottingham, United Kingdom
Roland Potthast Department of Mathematics University of Reading Reading, United Kingdom
Peter beim Graben Department of German Studies and Linguistics Humboldt-UniversitRat zu Berlin Berlin, Germany James Wright School of Medicine University of Auckland Auckland, New Zealand
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Preface
The Neural Field: A Framework for Brain Data Integration? This book presents a perspective on the advancing subject of neural fields—that is, theories of brain organization and function in which the interaction of billions of neurons is treated as a continuum. The intention is to reduce the enormous complexity of neuronal interactions to simpler, population properties that are tractable by analytical mathematical tools. By so doing, it is hoped t
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