Skip to main content
Log in

Neural macrostates

An analysis of the function of the information-carrying system of the brain

  • Articles
  • Published:
Synthese Aims and scope Submit manuscript

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Bibliography

  1. Bergström, R. M., ‘Die Mitberücksichtigung des Subjekts im sinnesphysiologischen Meßakt. Eine experimentell-analytische Untersuchung im propriozeptivhaptischen Sinneskreis’, Acta Physiologica Scandinavica 41 (1957), Suppl. 144, 1–157.

    Google Scholar 

  2. Bergström, R. M., ‘Über den Zusammenhang der von voluntärer Muskelaktion erbrachten Bewegungsgröße und der elektrischen Aktivität des Muskels’, Acta Physiologica Scandinavica 44 (1958) 184–188.

    Google Scholar 

  3. Bergström, R. M., ‘Über die Struktur einer Wahrnehmungssituation und über ihr physiologisches Gegenstück’, Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennica, Series A. V. Medica 94 (1962) 1–23.

    Google Scholar 

  4. Bergström, R. M., ‘Physiology of the Autonomic Nervous System’, Acta Anaesthetica Scandinavica, Suppl. 15 (1964) 17–20.

    Google Scholar 

  5. Bergström, R. M., ‘Neural Micro- and Macrostates’ (1967, unpublished).

  6. Bergström, R. M., Fruhstorfer, H., and Häkkinen, V., ‘Die corticale Reizantwort des Menschen in Abhängigkeit von geringen Vigilanzschwankungen’, Pflügers Archiv 294 (1967) 60.

    Google Scholar 

  7. Bergström, R. M., and Stenberg, D. (1967, unpublished).

  8. Boyarsky, L. L., ‘Neural Net Analogs of Rhythmic Activity in the Nervous System’, Modern Biology 1 (1967) 39–46.

    Google Scholar 

  9. Brunswik, E., Wahrnehmung und Gegenstandswelt, Leipzig und Wien 1934.

  10. Harmon, L. D. and Lewis, E. R., ‘Neural Modeling’, Physiological Reviews 46 (1966) 513–591.

    Google Scholar 

  11. Hensel, H., Allgemeine Sinnesphysiologie. Hautsinne, Geschmack, Geruch, Berlin-Heidelberg-New York 1966.

  12. Hensel, H. and Boman, K., ‘Afferent Impulses in Cutaneous Sensory Nerves in Human Subjects’, Journal of Neurophysiology 23 (1960) 564–578.

    Google Scholar 

  13. Hyvärinen, J., ‘Analysis of Spontaneous Spike Potential Activity in Developing Rabbit Diencephalon’, Acta Physiologica Scandinavica 68, Suppl. (1966), 278.

    Google Scholar 

  14. Jokinen, Y, Bergström, R. M., Sovijärvi, A., and Poranen A. (1967, unpublished).

  15. Josephson, R. K., ‘A Simulation Study of a Diffuse Conducting System based on Coelenterate Nerve Nets’, Journal of Theoretical Biology 1 (1961) 460–487.

    Google Scholar 

  16. Keidel, W.-D., ‘Kybernetische Systeme des menschlichen Organismus’, Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Forschung des Landes Nordheim-Westfalen 118 (1963).

  17. McCulloch, W. S., ‘Stability of Biological Systems’, in Homeostatic Mechanisms. Brookhaven Symposium No. 10, Brookhaven, N. Y., 1958, pp. 207–216.

    Google Scholar 

  18. Nakahama, H., ‘Relation of Mean Impulse Frequency to Statistical Dependency between Intervals in Neuronal Impulse Sequences’, Journal of Neurophysiology 29 (1966) 935–941.

    Google Scholar 

  19. Reenpää, Y., Allgemeine Sinnesphysiologie, Frankfurt a. M. 1962.

  20. Shannon, C. and Weaver, W., The Mathematical Theory of Communication, Urbana, Ill., 1949.

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

Authors

Additional information

This work was supported by a grant from the Signe and Ane Gyllenberg Foundation.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Bergström, R.M. Neural macrostates. Synthese 17, 425–443 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00485043

Download citation

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00485043

Navigation