May 22-23, 2008, Isola d’Elba, Italy
Organizer: Prof. (apl.). Thomas Filk
The dynamics of the neural correlates of thinking may be dominated by attractors which are determined by neural connectivities and synaptic weights. However, in a highly recursive process, thinking itself acts back onto this landscape of attractors. This interplay of the dynamics of neural activity in a complex landscape of attractors and, thereby, leading to a change of this attractor landscape, has been addressed in this workshop from various perspectives, ranging from philosophy to the fields of cognitive, biological, physiological and computational neuroscience.
- Harald Atmanspacher, IGPP, Freiburg
Contextual Emergence of Mental States from Neurodynamics - Mark Bickhard, Lehigh University, Philadelphia
The Microgenetic Dynamics of Cortical Attractor Landscapes - Thomas Filk, University of Freiburg, Parmenides Center f. the Study of Thinking
Dynamics in and of Attractor Landscapes - Walter Freeman, University of California at Berkeley
A thermodynamic model of phase transitions in chaotic attractor landscapessupported by nonlinear brain dynamics - Benedikt Grothe, MCN, Munich
Rapid Dynamics in Neural Circuits – Some Lessons from the Brainstem - Scott Kelso, CCS, Florida Atlantic University
Metastable Mind - Robert Kozma, University of Memphis, Tennessee
Phase Transitions in the Dynamics of Cognitive Attractor Landscapes - Godehard Link, LMU, Munich
Neurodynamics and Causality - Per Roland, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm
Some Principles of Stimulus Evoked Cortical Dynamics of Visual Areas - Susan Schneider, University of Pennsylvania
The Format of Thought - Olaf Sporns, Indiana University Bloomington
From Brain Structure to Brain Dynamics
