Center for Nonlinear Dynamics of the Brain.
Abstract
The Center for Nonlinear Dynamics of the Brain (CNDB) studies nonlinear dynamics of large masses of nerve cells in animal and human brains as the basis for explaining the self-organization of goal-directed cognitive behaviors. We believe that this approach to the study of mass neural action will be a basic method of the neurophysiology of the twenty-first century. Our research has application to clinical neurology and psychiatry, to the measurement and enhancement of human mental capabilities and to the design of self-organizing, pattern recognition computer systems. By extending techniques and models derived from the paleocortex to animal and human neocortex, deeper understanding of the neural basis of goal-directed higher brain functions will emerge. The practical consequences of this enhanced knowledge will be better diagnosis of neurologic and psychiatric diseases. It also will result in the ability to predict decrements in higher brain functions consequent to illness, fatigue or drugs. The new models for globally parallel, self-organizing systems which result from this research also will be directly relevant to the design of VLSI architectures for pattern recognition. Keywords: Mathematical modeling; Anatomical modeling.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 30, 1987
- Accession Number
- ADA187245
Entities
People
- Walter Freeman
Organizations
- University of California, Berkeley