How brains make chaos in order to make sense of the world

CA Skarda, WJ Freeman - Behavioral and brain sciences, 1987 - cambridge.org
… After 12 years of search we at last identified some of the postulated patterns (Freeman &
Viana Di Prisco 1986a). The results were beyond surprising; they took us so far outside the …

The physiology of perception

WJ Freeman - Scientific American, 1991 - JSTOR
FREEMAN is professor of neurobiology at the University of Califor nia, Berkeley. He received
an MD from Yale University in 1954 and completed postdoctoral training in neurophysiol …

Tutorial on neurobiology: from single neurons to brain chaos

WJ Freeman - International journal of bifurcation and chaos, 1992 - World Scientific
Those classical models are reviewed that are most widely used by neurobiologists to explain
the dynamics of neurons and neuron populations, and by modelers to implement artificial …

Spatial EEG patterns, non-linear dynamics and perception: the neo-Sherringtonian view

WJ Freeman, CA Skarda - Brain Research Reviews, 1985 - Elsevier
Spatial analysis with preamplifier arrays and computers offers fresh perspectives on brain
function. Realization of its potential depends on development of appropriate procedures for …

Change in pattern of ongoing cortical activity with auditory category learning

FW Ohl, H Scheich, WJ Freeman - Nature, 2001 - nature.com
Humans are able to classify novel items correctly by category 1 , 2 ; some other animals
have also been shown to do this 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 . During category learning, humans group …

[BOOK][B] Societies of brains: A study in the neuroscience of love and hate

WJ Freeman - 2014 - taylorfrancis.com
… system (Freeman and Schneider 1982), and in looking elsewhere we found it in the visual,
auditory, and somatic cortices, too (Freeman and Barrie 1994; Barrie, Freeman and Lenhart …

Mesoscopic neurodynamics: from neuron to brain

WJ Freeman - Journal of Physiology-Paris, 2000 - Elsevier
Intelligent behavior is characterized by flexible and creative pursuit of endogenously
defined goals. Intentionality is a key concept by which to link neuron and brain to goal-directed …

[BOOK][B] How brains make up their minds

WJ Freeman - 2000 - books.google.com
Freeman … , Freeman charts a new course--one that gives individuals due credit and
responsibility for their actions. Drawing upon his five decades of research in neuroscience, Freeman

Nonlinear brain dynamics as macroscopic manifestation of underlying many-body field dynamics

WJ Freeman, G Vitiello - Physics of life reviews, 2006 - Elsevier
Neural activity patterns related to behavior occur at many scales in time and space from the
atomic and molecular to the whole brain. Patterns form through interactions in both directions…

[HTML][HTML] Breathing as a fundamental rhythm of brain function

…, A Babajani-Feremi, R Rezaie, WJ Freeman… - Frontiers in neural …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Freeman and colleagues performed pioneering studies on the influence of respiration through
olfaction on the rat brain (Eeckman and Freeman, 1990; Kay and Freeman, 1998). Effects …