Principles of Brain Functioning

A Synergetic Approach to Brain Activity, Behavior and Cognition

Hermann Haken (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

XIII, 349 Seiten

1996
Springer Berlin (Verlag)
978-3-540-58967-9 (ISBN)

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This book presents a new understanding of brain activity. Based on the general results of synergetics, the brain is conceived as a complex self-organizing system with emergent properties. This approach is elaborated upon by numerous explicit models that are based on and checked by detailed experiments on movement control, on various results on vision and on EEG and MEG analysis. The book provides newcomers to brain research with an introductory chapter on the experimental exploration of the brain and provides newcomers to synergetics with detailed and easy-to-read chapters on the basic concepts and theoretical tools of this field.

Hermann Haken is Professor of the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of Stuttgart. He is known as the founder of synergetics. His research has been in nonlinear optics (in particular laser physics), solid state physics, statistical physics, and group theory. After the implementation of the first laser in 1960, Professor Haken developed his institute to an international center for laser theory. The interpretation of the laser principles as self organization of non equilibrium systems paved the way to the development of synergetics, of which Haken is recognized as the founder. Hermann Haken has been visiting professor or guest scientist in England, France, Japan, USA, Russia, and China. He is the author of some 23 textbooks and monographs that cover an impressive number of topics from laser physics to synergetics, and editor of a book series in synergetics. For his pathbreaking work and his influence on academic research, he has been awarded many-times. Among others, he is member of the Order "Pour le merite" and received the Max Planck Medal in 1990.

Reihe/Serie	Springer Series in Synergetics
Zusatzinfo	220 figs.
Sprache	deutsch
Gewicht	684 g
Einbandart	gebunden
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Biochemie
Schlagworte	Gehirn • HC/Biologie/Allgemeines, Lexika • HC/Biologie/Biochemie, Biophysik • Synergetik • Synergie
ISBN-10	3-540-58967-8 / 3540589678
ISBN-13	978-3-540-58967-9 / 9783540589679
Zustand	Neuware