INDEX
| Adaptation: somatic selection of neuronal groups, 9, 21, 67-69, 323 | |
| Adult map: changes linked to critical periods, 136-138; stabilized competition within fixed circuitry, 126- 138 | |
| Afferent expression: in receptive fields, 172 | |
| Amnesic syndromes, 327 | |
| Amphioxus, 218-219 | |
| Amygdaloid complex, 267 | |
| Anatomical variability, 35, 39 | |
| Arbor, see Overlapping arbors Arborization, 133-136, 169-170 | |
| Arousal system: functions, 61 | |
| Associative learning: generalization and, 30 | |
| Associative recall: test for in Darwin II, 285-287 | |
| Auditory recognition: by infants, 255- 256 | |
| Auditory templates, 301 | |
| Baldwin, James M., 11 | |
| Barrel fields, rodent somatosensory: critical period, 136-137; overlap, 134-135 | |
| Bartlett, Frederic C., 265, 328 | |
| Basal ganglia: functional aspects, 227, 229; reentrant connections to cortex, 219, 227 | |
| Behavior: and behavioral embryology, 221-226; conditioning, 297-300; global, 306; role of variability and selection in, 298 | |
| Bernstein, Nicholas, 63, 211, 213, 221- 226, 230, 233, 257 | |
| Bilaterality, 154 | |
| Bilateral symmetry, 144, 146 | |
| Biological question: in neuroscience, 316 | |
| Bird song: and learning, 300-303 | |
| Brain: function: selectionist theories, 66; somatic adaptation to musculoskeletal change, 215 | |
| Branching pattern: dendritic and axonal, 114, 119 | |
| Brodal, Alf, 40, 105 | |
| Bullock, Theodore H., 146 | |
| CAM, 34; binding mode, 79; CNS distribution, 86; couples, 97, 99; distributions, 93, 95; linked cycles of expression, 99; molecular variation, 100; neuronal, 101; perturbation, 99; regulatory cycle, 96-98; role in morphogenesis, 158-159; secondary induction, 101; specificity, 102, 323 | |
| CAM antibodies: effects on retinotectal map order, 124-125 | |
| CAM cycle: control of neural patterns, 119; evolutionary alterations, 161; regulatory genes, 161 | |
| CAM expression: control of, 81; correlation with cell movement, 101; epigenetic rules, 94; modulation, 93- 94; regulation, 89; regulator hypothesis, 96; sequences, 83-88; sites, 89 | |
| CAM function, 76; border formation, 91, 96; causal significance, 88-93; disruption, 89; embryonic induction, 91; morphogenesis, 74-82; perturbation of, 89; role, 74 | |
| CAM modulation, 86, 114, 161, 318; alteration of, 92; binding in, 81; cell surface, 118; differential, 119; |
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Publication information:
Book title: Neural Darwinism:The Theory of Neuronal Group Selection.
Contributors: Gerald M. Edelman - Author.
Publisher: Basic Books.
Place of publication: New York.
Publication year: 1987.
Page number: 359.
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