?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Statistical+mechanics+of+neocortical+interactions%3A+EEG+eigenfunctions+of+short-term+memory&rft.creator=Ingber%2C+Lester&rft.subject=Computational+Neuroscience&rft.subject=Statistical+Models&rft.description=This+paper+focuses+on+how+bottom-up+neocortical+models+can+be+developed+into+eigenfunction+expansions+of+probability+distributions+appropriate+to+describe+short-term+memory+in+the+context+of+scalp+EEG.+The+mathematics+of+eigenfunctions+are+similar+to+the+top-down+eigenfunctions+developed+by+Nunez%2C+albeit+they+have+different+physical+manifestations.+The+bottom-up+eigenfunctions+are+at+the+local+mesocolumnar+scale%2C+whereas+the+top-down+eigenfunctions+are+at+the+global+regional+scale.+However%2C+as+described+in+several+joint+papers%2C+our+approaches+have+regions+of+substantial+overlap%2C+and+future+studies+may+expand+top-down+eigenfunctions+into+the+bottom-up+eigenfunctions%2C+yielding+a+model+of+scalp+EEG+that+is+ultimately+expressed+in+terms+of+columnar+states+of+neocortical+processing+of+attention+and+short-term+memory.&rft.date=1999&rft.type=Preprint&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpostscript&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F89%2F2%2Fsmni00_eeg_stm.ps&rft.identifier=++Ingber%2C+Lester++(1999)+Statistical+mechanics+of+neocortical+interactions%3A+EEG+eigenfunctions+of+short-term+memory.++%5BPreprint%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F89%2F