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A Model of Low Level Co-operativity in Cerebral Dynamic

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Methods and Models in Artificial and Natural Computation. A Homage to Professor Mira’s Scientific Legacy (IWINAC 2009)

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We present a conceptual model of cerebral dynamics based on the neuropsychological findings of Lashley, Luria, and J. Gonzalo on the residual function after traumatic and surgical lesions in animals and man. The model proposes a co-operative structure with polifunctional modules distributed on the same anatomical substratum. The level of co-operation depends closely the language used to describe the neural dialogue, analogic, logic or symbolic. At low level we can use a nonlinear convolution-like formulation with adaptive kernels to explain some of the experimental results, although the more relevant properties of cerebral dynamics need more sophisticated formulations.

This paper was written in 1981, but has not been published until now. It was presented at the “Fifth International Congress of Cybernetics and Systems” which took place in Mexico D.F., and only its summary was published in the proceedings.

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  2. Departamento de Electrónica, Tecnología de Computadores y Proyectos, Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, Pl. Hospital, 1, 30201, Cartagena, Spain

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    José R. Álvarez

  4. Departamento de Electrónica, Tecnología de Computadoras y Proyectos, Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, Pl. Hospital, 1, 30201, Cartagena

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Mira, J., Delgado, A.E. (2009). A Model of Low Level Co-operativity in Cerebral Dynamic. In: Mira, J., Ferrández, J.M., Álvarez, J.R., de la Paz, F., Toledo, F.J. (eds) Methods and Models in Artificial and Natural Computation. A Homage to Professor Mira’s Scientific Legacy. IWINAC 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5601. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02264-7_1

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