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23 Problems in Systems Neuroscience$
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J. Leo van Hemmen and Terrence J. Sejnowski

Print publication date: 2006

Print ISBN-13: 9780195148220

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: May 2009

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195148220.001.0001

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What Are the Projective Fields of Cortical Neurons?

Chapter:
(p. 394 ) 19 What Are the Projective Fields of Cortical Neurons?
Source:
23 Problems in Systems Neuroscience
Author(s):

Terrence J. Sejnowski

Publisher:
Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195148220.003.0019

This chapter proposes a line of research that could help uncover new principles of cortical function. It shows that projective fields of interacting assemblies of neurons provide the basic “keyboard” for the brain's interaction with the world and with itself. By combining information about the receptive and projective fields of cortical neurons, an overall picture should emerge of how autonomous behaviors arise from dynamic brain states.

Keywords:   cortical function, receptive field, projective field, brain

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