Overview

This conference brought together scientists from diverse disciplines such as biomedical and electrical engineering, mathematics, physics, neurology, neuroscience, psychophysiology and psychology to discuss the application of nonlinear dynamics in the study of brain function. This is a relatively new field which involves measuring the properties of chaotic strange attractors in the human EEG. Probably the earliest and still most exciting result in the field is that 'the more chaos the better' is the rule in many physiological areas. We have only the most speculative ideas about why the brain might be chaotic and what the implications are if it really is. The potential is unimaginably large. This volume will serve to inspire others to pursue research in this field and point the way in some promising directions.

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Author:   Dennis W Duke (Florida State Univ, Usa) ,  W S Pritchard (R J Reynolds Tobacco Co)
Publisher:   World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Imprint:   World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
ISBN:  

9789810207014

ISBN 10:   9810207018
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   01 October 1991
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Mechanisms of chaotic dynamics in the olfactory system shown by simultaneous recording from bulb and cortex, S.L. Bressler and W.J. Freeman; controlling chaos - a selection mechanism for neural information processing?, M-Z Ding and J.A.S. Kelso; estimation of time-varying parameters in nonlinear models of biological time series, J. Goldbert and Y.K. Lee; the evolution with time of the spatial distribution of the largest Lyapunov exponent on the human epileptic cortex, L.D. Iasemidis and J.C. Sackellares; Is It? and So What? - a critical view of EEG chaos, B.H. Jansen; the largest Lyapunov exponent of the EEG in ECT seizures, A.D. Krystal and R.D. Weiner; some comments on the weaving of contemporaneous minds, A.J. Mandell, et al; construction and visualization of EEG state space portraits, J.C. Principe, et al; dimensional analysis of topographic EEG - some methodological considerations, W.S. Pritchard, et al; EEG and chaos - dimensional estimation of sensory and hypnotic processes, W.J. Ray, et al; toward non-linear psychodynamics - exploring the chaotic nature of mind and body processes, D.J. Redington and S.P. Reidbord; does the largest Lyapunov characteristic exponent quantify the dynamical complexity of the event-related potential? an algorithm using adaptive step-size control for variable propagation times, G.V. Wallenstein and A.J. Nash, et al.

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