Information, Novelty, and Surprise in Brain Theory

Günther Palm
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Günther Palm: University of Ulm, Neural Information Processing

Chapter Chapter 12 in Novelty, Information and Surprise, 2012, pp 161-188 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In biological research it is common to assume that each organ of an organism serves a definite purpose. The purpose of the brain seems to be the coordination and processing of information which the animal obtains through its sense organs about the outside world and about its own internal state (Bateson 1972). An important aspect of this is the storage of information in memory and the use of the stored information in connection with the present sensory stimuli.

Keywords: Synaptic Plasticity; Brain Research; Spike Train; Single Neuron; Neural Population (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-29075-6_12

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