Computational Neuroscience: Cortical Dynamics [electronic resource] : 8th International Summer School on Neural Nets, Erice, Italy, October 31-November 6, 2003, Revised Lectures / edited by Péter Érdi, Anna Esposito, Maria Marinaro, Silvia Scarpetta.

Section 1 – Fundamentals of Cortical Dynamics -- Dynamics of Storage and Recall in Hippocampal Associative Memory Networks -- On the Nested Hierarchical Organization of CNS: Basic Characteristics of Neuronal Molecular Networks -- Neural Phase Transitions That Made Us Mammals -- Section 2 – Mathematical Models of Cortical Dynamics -- Mean Field Methods for Cortical Network Dynamics -- Chaotic Neuron Dynamics, Synchronization, and Feature Binding -- A Complex Systems Approach to an Interpretation of Dynamic Brain Activity I: Chaotic Itinerancy Can Provide a Mathematical Basis for Information Processing in Cortical Transitory and Nonstationary Dynamics -- A Complex Systems Approach to an Interpretation of Dynamic Brain Activity II: Does Cantor Coding Provide a Dynamic Model for the Formation of Episodic Memory? -- Itinerant Dynamics of Class I* Neurons Coupled by Gap Junctions.