NERVOUS SYSTEM
| Collection | International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics |
|---|---|
| Year | 2004 |
| Vol. (num.) | 2(2) |
| ID | ◀ 2247 ▶ |
| Object type | Discipline oriented, General information |
The study of the nervous system, specially in the human being, is obviously basic for the understanding of our behavior , our ways of thinking and our social relationships .
It is thus very significant for cybernetics and systemics. It is however not possible to develop the subject within the frame of this Encyclopedia (whose editor moreover is in no way competent to do it, even if he may have useful general information)
Only some more specific topics are presented in this work because of their seemingly central importance, but still in a very sketchy way. Among them are:
- the various entries about the brain
- frog's eye experiment
- HEBB's rule and reinforcement
- hippocampus
- learning as cerebral differenciation
- learning matrixes
- neural network
- neuron
- neuron (formal)
- synapse
Also closely related to the subject are:
- autopoiesis
- closure (organizational)
- constructivism and constructivist cybernetics
- coupling (structural)
- hypercycle
- intentionality (perceptive)
- memory
- model building
- observability, observation process, observer
- parallel distributed processing
- the various entries on perception
- reference frames
- synaptic weights