FoundationalConceptsNeuroscience

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Koch (2004).
Consciousness and integrated information: Tononi (2012) and Tononi and
Koch (2015).
One look at some of the complexities of electromagnetic interactions in the
brain: Buzsaki, Anastassiou, and Koch (2012).
Cortical neurodynamics and dark energy: Capolupo, Freeman, and Vitiello
(2013).
“For centuries brains have been described as dynamic systems”: Freeman
(2000b, p. 3).
Freeman’s neurodynamic perspective summarized: Freeman (2000a, 2015).

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Alexander Luria tells the story of Solomon Shereshevsky in Luria
(1968/1987).
“Usually I experience a word’s taste and weight”: Luria (1968/1987, p. 28).
On synesthesia: Ramachandran and Hubbard (2001), Cytowic and Eagleman
(2009), and Ramachandran (2011, chap. 3).
Daniel Tammet describes his colored and textured visualization of the digits
of min his engaging memoir, Tammet (2006).
Karl Lashley’s work on maze learning and cortical lesions: Lashley (1929).
The story of H.M. is told by Suzanne Corkin, one of the neuroscientists who
worked with him for many years, in Corkin (2013).
The first comprehensive description of H.M.’s cognitive capacities following
his surgery: Scoville and Milner (1957).
Postmortem examination of H.M.’s brain: Annese et al. (2014).
“When an axon of cell A,” Donald Hebb’s famous neurophysiological postulate
for the synaptic underpinnings of learning and memory: Hebb (1949, p. 62).
Eric Kandel, who received a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2000 for
his work on elucidating a cellular and molecular mechanism of learning
in Aplysia, tells the story of his research trajectory in Kandel (2006). A con-
cise summary of the molecular biology of memory is presented in Kandel
(2001).

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