Nerve-pulse interactions

Conference · Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1982

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-46466-9_5· OSTI ID:5672989

Scott, A C

Some recent experimental and theoretical results on mechanisms through which individual nerve pulses can interact are reviewed. Three modes of interactions are considered: (1) interaction of pulses as they travel along a single fiber which leads to velocity dispersion; (2) propagation of pairs of pulses through a branching region leading to quantum pulse code transformations; and (3) interaction of pulses on parallel fibers through which they may form a pulse assembly. This notion is analogous to Hebb's concept of a cell assembly, but on a lower level of the neural hierarchy.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-36
• OSTI ID: 5672989
• Report Number(s): LA-UR-81-3728; CONF-820209-1; ON: DE82006133
• Resource Relation: Journal Volume: 45; Conference: Us/Japan seminar on competition and cooperation in neural nets, Kyoto, Japan, 15 Feb 1982
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
NERVES
PHYSIOLOGY
EXPERIMENTAL DATA
NERVE CELLS
PULSES
THRESHOLD ENERGY
VELOCITY
ANIMAL CELLS
DATA
ENERGY
INFORMATION
NERVOUS SYSTEM
NUMERICAL DATA
SOMATIC CELLS
551000* - Physiological Systems