Synergetics Of The Brain

Author : Hermann Haken
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 340 pages
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Release : 2013-03-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642795701

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Principles of Brain Functioning by Hermann Haken Pdf

It is increasingly being recognized that the experimental and theoretical study of the complex system brain requires the cooperation of many disciplines, in cluding biology, medicine, physics, chemistry, mathematics, computer science, linguistics, and others. In this way brain research has become a truly interdis ciplinary endeavor. Indeed, the most important progress is quite often made when different disciplines cooperate. Thus it becomes necessary for scientists to look across the fence surrounding their disciplines. The present book is written precisely in this spirit. It addresses graduate students, professors and scientists in a variety of fields, such as biology, medicine and physics. Be yond its mathematical representation the book gives ample space to verbal and pictorial descriptions of the main and, as I believe, fundamental new insights, so that it will be of interest to a general readership, too. I use this opportunity to thank my former students, some of whom are my present co-workers, for their cooperation over many years. Among them I wish to mention in particular M. Bestehorn, L. Borland, H. Bunz, A. Daf fertshofer, T. Ditzinger, E. Fischer, A. Fuchs, R. Haas, R. Honlinger, V. Jirsa, M. Neufeld, M. Ossig, D. Reimann, M. Schanz, G. Schoner, P. Tass, C. Uhl. My particular thanks go to R. Friedrich and A. Wunderlin for their constant help in many respects. Stimulating discussions with a number of colleagues from a variety of fields are also highly appreciated.

Author : E. Basar,Hans Flohr,Hermann Haken
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3642694225

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Synergetics of the Brain by E. Basar,Hans Flohr,Hermann Haken Pdf

Author : E. Basar,H. Flohr,Hermann Haken,A. J. Mandell
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642694219

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Synergetics of the Brain by E. Basar,H. Flohr,Hermann Haken,A. J. Mandell Pdf

Synergetics may be considered as an interdisciplinary effort dealing with the gene ral problem of how science can cope with complex systems. The preceding symposia on synergetics were devoted to systems of physics, chemistry and partly also biolo gy and sociology. It was possible to develop adequate concepts to describe and even to calculate evolving macroscopic spatial, temporal, and functional structures which emerge through self-organization of the individual parts of the systems under con sideration. This book contains the invited papers presented at the Symposium on the Synerge tics of the brain, Schloss Elmau, Bavaria, May 2 to 7, 1983. The inclusion of this topic in the synergetics enterprise represents a big step towards a treatment of complex systems. Most probably the human brain is the most complex system we know of. As the organizers believe, this symposium provides the reader with a good cross section of experimental results and theoretical approaches to cope with the complex problems of structure and function of the brain. It was generally felt that such a joint meeting between experimentalists and theoreticians is of great importance for future development of this field. Modern experimental methods, e. g. multielectrode derivations allow or will allow us, in short, to collect huge amounts of data. Simi larly high-speed computers will flood us with an enormous number of outputs once the basic model equations have been chosen.

Author : Erol Başar
Publisher : Springer
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Medical
ISBN : UOM:39015006704046

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Synergetics of the Brain by Erol Başar Pdf

Author : Hermann Haken,Michael Stadler
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642487798

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Synergetics of Cognition by Hermann Haken,Michael Stadler Pdf

This book presents the invited lectures given at the International Symposium on Synergetics of Cognition held at SchloB Elmau, Bavaria (Fed. Rep. of Germany), June 4-8, 1989. The understanding of the processes underlying cognition is certainly one of the most challenging and difficult problems confronting the human mind. It is an enterprise that requires the cooperation of scientists from fields ranging from the neurosciences and psychology through biology to the computer sciences, physics and mathematics. The papers included in this volume reflect this joint effort. As will be evident, there is a remarkable convergence of ideas stemming from various fields, for instance, the earlier ideas on Gestalt theory celebrate a come back and remarkable analogies are being established with modem concepts of self-organization as dealt with in the interdisciplinary field of synergetics. The individual topics range from the "microscopic level", where new exciting results on specific oscillations of neural activity are reported, to computer simulations of perception, and finally psychological experiments at the "macroscopic level". We hope that this book will convey to its readers the same enthusiasm that was felt by the participants of the symposium. We wish to thank Mrs. U. Funke for the excellent organisation of the sym posium, and the Volkswagen-Stiftung, Hannover, for its financial support. We are furthermore grateful to Christoph Stadler and Zora Franko for their help in com piling the name and subject indexes. Finally we wish to thank Springer-Verlag, in particular Dr. Angela Lahee, for the excellent cooperation.

Author : Erol Başar
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642598937

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Brain Function and Oscillations by Erol Başar Pdf

Neuroscience is ripe for a paradigm change as Freeman and Mountcastle describe. Brain Oscillations provide an important key to this change. In this book the functional importance of the brain's multiple oscillations is treated with an integrative scope. According to the author, neurophysiology and cognition demand integrative approaches similar to those of Galilei and Newton in physics and of Darwin in biology. Not only the human brain but also lower brains and ganglia of invertebrates are treated with electrophysical methods. Experiments on sensory registration, perception, movement, and cognitive processes related to attention, learning, and memory are described. A synopsis on brain functions leads to a new neuron assemblies doctrine, extending the concept of Sherrington, and new trends in this field. The book will appeal to scientists and graduate students.

Author : Hermann Haken
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642963636

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Synergetics by Hermann Haken Pdf

The spontaneous formation of well organized structures out of germs or even out of chaos is one of the most fascinating phenomena and most challenging problems scientists are confronted with. Such phenomena are an experience of our daily life when we observe the growth of plants and animals. Thinking of much larger time scales, scientists are led into the problems of evolution, and, ultimately, of the origin of living matter. When we try to explain or understand in some sense these extremely complex biological phenomena it is a natural question, whether pro cesses of self-organization may be found in much simpler systems of the un animated world. In recent years it has become more and more evident that there exist numerous examples in physical and chemical systems where well organized spatial, temporal, or spatio-temporal structures arise out of chaotic states. Furthermore, as in living of these systems can be maintained only by a flux of organisms, the functioning energy (and matter) through them. In contrast to man-made machines, which are to exhibit special structures and functionings, these structures develop spon devised It came as a surprise to many scientists that taneously-they are self-organizing. numerous such systems show striking similarities in their behavior when passing from the disordered to the ordered state. This strongly indicates that the function of such systems obeys the same basic principles. In our book we wish to explain ing such basic principles and underlying conceptions and to present the mathematical tools to cope with them.

Author : Günter Wunner,Axel Pelster
Publisher : Springer
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-26
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319276359

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Selforganization in Complex Systems: The Past, Present, and Future of Synergetics by Günter Wunner,Axel Pelster Pdf

This proceedings volume contains talks and poster presentations from the International Symposium "Self-Organization in Complex Systems: The Past, Present, and Future of Synergetics", which took place at Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg, an Institute of Advanced Studies, in Delmenhorst, Germany, during the period November 13 - 16, 2012. The Symposium was organized in honour of Hermann Haken, who celebrated his 85th birthday in 2012. With his fundamental theory of Synergetics he had laid the mathematical-physical basis for describing and analyzing self-organization processes in a diversity of fields of research. The quest for common and universal principles of self-organization in complex systems was clearly covered by the wide range of interdisciplinary topics reported during the Symposium. These extended from complexity in classical systems and quantum systems over self-organisation in neuroscience even to the physics of finance. Moreover, by combining a historical view with a present status report the Symposium conveyed an impression of the allure and potency of this branch of research as well as its applicability in the future.

Author : Hermann Haken
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783662101827

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Synergetic Computers and Cognition by Hermann Haken Pdf

This book presents a novel approach to neural nets and thus offers a genuine alternative to the hitherto known neuro-computers. The new edition includes a section on transformation properties of the equations of the synergetic computer and on the invariance properties of the order parameter equations. Further additions are a new section on stereopsis and recent developments in the use of pulse-coupled neural nets for pattern recognition.

Author : Stefan C. Müller,Peter J. Plath,Günter Radons,Armin Fuchs
Publisher : Springer
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-16
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319643342

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Complexity and Synergetics by Stefan C. Müller,Peter J. Plath,Günter Radons,Armin Fuchs Pdf

All of us are confronted with complex phenomena occurring in daily life and in the living and inanimate nature surrounding us. Our scientific curiosity strives to unravel the mechanisms at work to create such complexity. Among various approaches to solve this problem, the field of synergetics, developed by Hermann Haken, has proven very successful as a general and interdisciplinary concept for describing and explaining complex phenomena that appear in systems under non-equilibrium conditions. These comprise dynamical states in evolving systems, spatial structure-forming processes, synchronization of states and regulatory mechanisms, and many other examples. The encompassing concepts have been applied to many disciplines, like physics, chemistry, biology, and beyond those also from synergetics to information theory, brain science, economics, and others. Starting from basic methods of complexity research and synergetics, this volume contains thirty contributions on complex systems that exhibit spontaneous pattern formation far from thermal equilibrium. Written by international experts and young researchers assembled under one roof, this volume reflects state of the art research from a variety of scientific fields and disciplines where complexity theory and synergetics are important or even indispensable tools today and in the future.

Author : Bernd Kröger
Publisher : Springer
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-25
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319116891

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Hermann Haken: From the Laser to Synergetics by Bernd Kröger Pdf

Hermann Haken (born 1927) is one of the “fathers” of the quantum-mechanical laser theory, formulated between 1962 and 1966, in strong competition with American researchers. Later on, he created Synergetics, the science of cooperation in multicomponent systems. The book concentrates on the development of his scientific work during the first thirty-five years of his career. In 1970 he and his doctoral student Robert Graham were able to show that the laser is an example of a nonlinear system far from thermal equilibrium that shows a phase-transition like behavior. Subsequently, this insight opened the way for the formulation of Synergetics. Synergetics is able to explain, how very large systems show the phenomenon of self-organization that can be mathematically described by only very few order parameters. The results of Haken’s research were published in two seminal books Synergetics (1977) and Advanced Synergetics (1983). After the year 1985 Haken concentrated his research on the macroscopic foundation of Synergetics. This led him towards the application of synergetic principles in medicine, cognitive research and, finally, in psychology. A comprehensive bibliography of Hermann Haken’s publications (nearly 600 numbers) is included in the book.

Author : Ivan Dvorak (Ed),Arun V. Holden
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Biological models
ISBN : 0719034744

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Mathematical Approaches to Brain Functioning Diagnostics by Ivan Dvorak (Ed),Arun V. Holden Pdf

Author : Wolfgang Tschacher,Jean-Pierre Dauwalder
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Science
ISBN : 9810238371

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Dynamics, Synergetics, Autonomous Agents by Wolfgang Tschacher,Jean-Pierre Dauwalder Pdf

This volume focuses on the modeling of cognition, and brings together contributions from psychologists and researchers in the field of cognitive science. The shared platform of this work is to advocate a dynamical systems approach to cognition. Several aspects of this approach are considered here: chaos theory, artificial intelligence and Alife models, catastrophe theory and, most importantly, self-organization theory or synergetics. The application of nonlinear systems theory to cognitive science in general, and to cognitive psychology in particular, is a growing field that has gained further momentum thanks to new contributions from the science of robotics. The recent development in cognitive science towards an account of embodiment, together with the general approach of complexity theory and dynamics, will have a major impact on our psychological understanding of reasoning, thinking and behavior.

Author : Alexander E. Hramov,Alexey A. Koronovskii,Valeri A. Makarov,Alexey N. Pavlov,Evgenia Sitnikova
Publisher : Springer
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783662438503

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Wavelets in Neuroscience by Alexander E. Hramov,Alexey A. Koronovskii,Valeri A. Makarov,Alexey N. Pavlov,Evgenia Sitnikova Pdf

This book examines theoretical and applied aspects of wavelet analysis in neurophysics, describing in detail different practical applications of the wavelet theory in the areas of neurodynamics and neurophysiology and providing a review of fundamental work that has been carried out in these fields over the last decade. Chapters 1 and 2 introduce and review the relevant foundations of neurophysics and wavelet theory, respectively, pointing on one hand to the various current challenges in neuroscience and introducing on the other the mathematical techniques of the wavelet transform in its two variants (discrete and continuous) as a powerful and versatile tool for investigating the relevant neuronal dynamics. Chapter 3 then analyzes results from examining individual neuron dynamics and intracellular processes. The principles for recognizing neuronal spikes from extracellular recordings and the advantages of using wavelets to address these issues are described and combined with approaches based on wavelet neural networks (chapter 4). The features of time-frequency organization of EEG signals are then extensively discussed, from theory to practical applications (chapters 5 and 6). Lastly, the technical details of automatic diagnostics and processing of EEG signals using wavelets are examined (chapter 7). The book will be a useful resource for neurophysiologists and physicists familiar with nonlinear dynamical systems and data processing, as well as for graduat e students specializing in the corresponding areas.

Author : Hermann Haken
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642741197

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Neural and Synergetic Computers by Hermann Haken Pdf

Neural and Synergetic Computers deals with basic aspect of this rapidly developing field. Several contributions are devoted to the application of basic concepts of synergetics and dynamic systems theory to the constructionof neural computers. Further topics include statistical approaches to neural computers and their design (for example by sparse coding), perception motor control, and new types of spatial multistability in lasers.