title: Statistical mechanics of neocortical interactions. Derivation of short-term-memory capacity
creator: Ingber, Lester
subject: Computational Neuroscience
subject: Statistical Models
description: A theory developed by the author to describe macroscopic neocortical interactions demonstrates that empirical values of chemical and electrical parameters of synaptic interactions establish several minima of the path-integral Lagrangian as a function of excitatory and inhibitory columnar firings. The number of possible minima, their time scales of hysteresis and probable reverberations, and their nearest-neighbor columnar interactions are all consistent with well-established empirical rules of human short-term memory. Thus, aspects of conscious experience are derived from neuronal firing patterns, using modern methods of nonlinear nonequilibrium statistical mechanics to develop realistic explicit synaptic interactions.
date: 1984
type: Journal (Paginated)
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/postscript
identifier: http://cogprints.org/101/2/smni84_stm.ps
identifier:   Ingber, Lester  (1984) Statistical mechanics of neocortical interactions. Derivation of short-term-memory capacity.  [Journal (Paginated)]     
relation: http://cogprints.org/101/