Synaptic Modification, Neuron Selectivity, and Nervous System Organization

First published in 1985. This is a collection of essays presenting various theoretical ideas concerning distributive memories and cortical models. In addition, it includes a discussion of how a central set of assumptions can explain much of what is now known about deprivation and normal development of visual cortex and can perhaps also serve as the basis for a theory of higher nervous system organization as well as the Changeux model of how a synapse can modify itself.

William B. Levy University of Virginia School of Medicine, Department of Neuro-surgery, Charlottesville. , James A. Anderson Brown University, Department of Psychology and Center for Neural Sciences, Providence. Stephen Lehmkuhle

Introductory Remarks, L. N. Cooper; Chapter 1 Associative Changes at the Synapse: LTP in the Hippocampus, William B. Levy; Chapter 2 Hebbian Modification of Synaptic Transmission as a Common Mechanism in Experience-Dependent Maturation of Cortical Functions., W. Singer; Chapter 3 Monday's Discussion; Chapter 4 Some Constraints Operating on the Synaptic Modifications Underlying Binocular Competition in the Developing Visual Cortex, J. D. Pettigrew; Chapter 5 Remarks about the "Singularity" of Nerve Cells and its Ontogenesis, Jean-Pierre Changeux; Chapter 6 The Rules of Elemental Synaptic Plasticity, William B. levy, Nancy L. Desmond; Chapter 7 Neural Problem Solving, Andrew G. Barto, Richard S. Sutton; Chapter 8 What Hebb Synapses Build, James A. Anderson; Chapter 9 Neuron Selectivity: Single Neuron and Neuron Networks, L. N. Cooper, P. Munro, C. Scofield; Chapter 10 Tuesday's Discussion; Chapter 11 A Model of Cortical Associative Memory, Teuvo Kohonen, Erkki Oja, Pekka Lehtiö; Chapter 12 What Do Drug-Induced Visual Hallucinations Tell Us About the Brain?, J. D. Cowan; Chapter 13 Wednesday's Discussion;