creators_name: Ingber, Lester
type: journalp
datestamp: 1999-06-15
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:53:40
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title: Statistical mechanics of neocortical interactions. Derivation of short-term-memory capacity
ispublished: pub
subjects: comp-neuro-sci
subjects: comp-sci-stat-model
full_text_status: public
abstract: A theory developed by the author to describe macroscopic neocortical interactions demonstrates that empirical values of chemical and electrical parameters of synaptic interactions establish several minima of the path-integral Lagrangian as a function of excitatory and inhibitory columnar firings. The number of possible minima, their time scales of hysteresis and probable reverberations, and their nearest-neighbor columnar interactions are all consistent with well-established empirical rules of human short-term memory. Thus, aspects of conscious experience are derived from neuronal firing patterns, using modern methods of nonlinear nonequilibrium statistical mechanics to develop realistic explicit synaptic interactions.
date: 1984
date_type: published
publication: Physical Review A
volume: 29
pagerange: 3346-3358
refereed: TRUE
citation:   Ingber, Lester  (1984) Statistical mechanics of neocortical interactions. Derivation of short-term-memory capacity.  [Journal (Paginated)]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/101/2/smni84_stm.ps