Symbols and dynamics in the brain

BioSystems

Volumn 60, Issue 1-3, 2001, Pages 59-83

  Cariani, P ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive systems; Biological cybernetics; Biological semiotics; Dynamical systems; Emergence; Epistemology; Evolutionary robotics; Genetic code; Neural code; Neurocomputation; Self organization; Symbols

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BIOLOGY; BRAIN; CYBERNETICS; DYNAMICS; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; GENETIC CODE; INFORMATION SCIENCE; MEASUREMENT; MEMORY; PHYSICS; SYMBOLISM; THEORETICAL STUDY; TIME;

EID: 0035042492     PISSN: 03032647     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0303-2647(01)00108-3     Document Type: Article

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