Contents

pp vii-ix

List of contributors

pp x-xii

Part I - Introduction

pp 1-2

1 - How could populations of neurons encode information?

pp 3-18

Part II - Organization of neuronal activity in neuronal populations

pp 19-20

2 - Cellular mechanisms underlying network synchrony in the medial temporal lobe

pp 21-48

3 - Cell assemblies and serial computation in neural circuits

pp 49-73

4 - Neural population recording in behaving animals: constituents of a neural code for behavioral decisions

pp 74-94

5 - Measuring distributed properties of neural representations beyond the decoding of local variables: implications for cognition

pp 95-119

6 - Single-neuron and ensemble contributions to decoding simultaneously recorded spike trains

pp 120-148

Part III - Neuronal population information coding and plasticity in specific brain areas

pp 149-150

7 - Functional roles of theta and gamma oscillations in the association and dissociation of neuronal networks in primates and rodents

pp 151-173

8 - Theta rhythm and bidirectional plasticity in the hippocampus

pp 174-191

9 - Distributed population codes in sensory and memory representations of the neocortex

pp 192-223

10 - The role of neuronal populations in auditory cortex for category learning

pp 224-246

11 - The construction of olfactory representations

pp 247-280

Part IV - Functional integration of different brain areas in information processing and plasticity

pp 281-282

12 - Anatomical, physiological, and pharmacological properties underlying hippocampal sensorimotor integration

pp 283-325

13 - A face in the crowd: which groups of neurons process face stimuli, and how do they interact?

pp 326-349

14 - Using spikes and local field potentials to reveal computational networks in monkey cortex

pp 350-362

15 - Cortical gamma-band activity during auditory processing: evidence from human magnetoencephalography studies

pp 363-384

Part V - Disturbances of population activity as the basis of schizophrenia

pp 385-386

16 - Neural coordination and psychotic disorganization

pp 387-408

17 - The role of synchronous gamma-band activity in schizophrenia

pp 409-430

Part VI - Summary, conclusion, and future targets

pp 431-432

18 - Summary of chapters, conclusion, and future targets

pp 433-469

Index

pp 470-471