Principle of Brain Function: A Study on the Synergy of Brain Activity, Behavior, and Cognition

Author: Hermann Haken
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Publish Date: 2000-08-01
Features: Professor Haken, the founder of synergetics, presents a new insight into how the brain works in this book. Based on the general results of synergetics, this new insight views the brain as a complex self-organizing giant system with emergent properties. Building on fine motor control experiments, various visual effects, and analyses of electroencephalography (EEG) and magnetoencephalography (MEG), the author establishes numerous explicit models that extensively elaborate on this new insight. The book serves as an introductory chapter on experimental exploration of the brain for newcomers to brain research, while also providing a detailed and accessible guide to the fundamental concepts and theoretical tools of synergetics for beginners in the field.