@book {2233,
	title = {The Mindful Brain: Cortical Organization and the Group-Selective Theory of Higher Brain Function},
	year = {1978},
	pages = {100},
	publisher = {MIT Press},
	organization = {MIT Press},
	address = {Cambridge},
	abstract = {<p>This significant contribution to neuroscience consists of two papers, the first by Mountcastle an, the second by Edelman. Between them, they examine from different but complementary directions the relationships that connect the higher brain--memory, learning, perception, thinking--with what goes on at the most basic levels of neural activity, with particular stress on the role of local neuronal circuits.Edelman{\textquoteright}s major hypothesis is that "the conscious state results from phasic reentrant signaling occurring in parallel processes that involve associations between stored patterns and current sensory or internal input." This selective process occurs by the polling of degenerate primary repertoires of neuronal groups that are formed during embryogenesis and development. Edelman{\textquoteright}s theory extrapolates to the brain the selectionistic immunological theories for which he was awarded the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.Mountcastle{\textquoteright}s paper reviews what is known about the actual structure of various parts of the neo cortex. He relates the large entities of the neocortex to their component modules--the local neuronal circuits--and shows how the complex interrelationships of such a distributed system can yield dynamic distributed functioning.</p>
},
	keywords = {Brain., Cerebral Cortex, Higher nervous activity, Neural circuitry},
	isbn = {0262550079},
	url = {http://lccn.loc.gov/78004604},
	author = {Edelman, Gerald M and Mountcastle, Vernon B.}
}
