Design for a brain the origin of adaptive behaviour.
"This book is not a treatise on all cerebral mechanisms but a proposed solution of a specific problem: the origin of the nervous system's unique ability to produce adaptive behaviour. The work has as basis the fact that the nervous system behaves adaptively and the hypothesis that it is es...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London,
Chapman & Hall,
1960.
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| Edition: | 2d ed., rev. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- 1 The Problem.
- 2 Dynamic Systems.
- 3 The Organism as Machine.
- 4 Stability.
- 5 Adaptation as Stability.
- 6 Parameters.
- 7 The Ultrastable System.
- 8 The Homeostat.
- 9 Ultrastability in the Organism.
- 10 The Recurrent Situation.
- 11 The Fully-joined System.
- 12 Temporary Independence.
- 13 The System with Local Stabilities.
- 14 Repetitive Stimuli and Habituation.
- 15 Adaptation in Iterated and Serial Systems.
- 16 Adaptation in the Multistable System.
- 17 Ancillary Regulations.
- 18 Amplifying Adaptation.
- 19 The State-determined System.
- 20 Stability.
- 21 Parameters.
- 22 The Effects of Constancy.
- References.