?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Statistical+mechanics+of+neocortical+interactions%3A+Path-integral+evolution+of+short-term+memory&rft.creator=Ingber%2C+Lester&rft.subject=Computational+Neuroscience&rft.subject=Statistical+Models&rft.description=Previous+papers+in+this+series+of+statistical+mechanics+of+neocortical+interactions+(SMNI)+have+detailed+a+development+from+the+relatively+microscopic+scales+of+neurons+up+to+the+macroscopic+scales+as+recorded+by+electroencephalography+(EEG)%2C+requiring+an+intermediate+mesocolumnar+scale+to+be+developed+at+the+scale+of+minicolumns+(%24approx+10+sup+2%24+neurons)+and+macrocolumns+(%24approx+10+sup+5%24+neurons).+Opportunity+was+taken+to+view+SMNI+as+sets+of+statistical+constraints%2C+not+necessarily+describing+specific+synaptic+or+neuronal+mechanisms%2C+on+neuronal+interactions%2C+on+some+aspects+of+short-term+memory+(STM)%2C+e.g.%2C+its+capacity%2C+stability%2C+and+duration.+A+recently+developed+C-language+code%2C+PATHINT%2C+provides+a+non-Monte+Carlo+technique+for+calculating+the+dynamic+evolution+of+arbitrary-dimension+(subject+to+computer+resources)+nonlinear+Lagrangians%2C+such+as+derived+for+the+two-variable+SMNI+problem.+Here%2C+PATHINT+is+used+to+explicitly+detail+the+evolution+of+the+SMNI+constraints+on+STM.&rft.date=1994&rft.type=Journal+(Paginated)&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpostscript&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F97%2F2%2Fsmni94_stm.ps&rft.identifier=++Ingber%2C+Lester++(1994)+Statistical+mechanics+of+neocortical+interactions%3A+Path-integral+evolution+of+short-term+memory.++%5BJournal+(Paginated)%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F97%2F