Neuroscience is ripe for a paradigm change as Freeman and Mountcastle describe. Brain Oscillations provide an important key to this change. In this book the functional importance of the brain's multiple oscillations is treated with an integrative scope. According to the author, neurophysiology and cognition demand integrative approaches similar to those of Galilei and Newton in physics and of Darwin in biology. Not only the human brain but also lower brains and ganglia of invertebrates are treated with electrophysical methods. Experiments on sensory registration, perception, movement, and cognitive processes related to attention, learning, and memory are described. A synopsis on brain functions leads to a new neuron assemblies doctrine, extending the concept of Sherrington, and new trends in this field. The book will appeal to scientists and graduate students.

I. Dynamics of Electrical Signals in the Animal Brain

1. Dynamics of Potentials in the Visual and Auditory Pathway, Hippocampus, and Reticular Formation of the Cat Brain
2. Cross-Modality Experiments on the Cat Brain
3. Selectively Distributed Gamma-Band Responses Studied in Cortex, Reticular Formation, Hippocampus, and Cerebellum
4. Highest Frequency Range in Reticular Formation and Inferior Colliculus (100-1000 Hz)
5. The Brain of the Sleeping Cat: Dynamics of Electrical Signals
6. Dynamics of Potentials from Invertebrate Brains
7. Dynamics of Potentials from the Brain of Anamniotes (Vertebrates)
8. Frequency Response of the Cat Brain Is Influenced by Pharmacological Agents
II. The Human Brain: Dynamics of EEG, Evoked Potentials, and MEG
9. Evoked Alpha and Theta Responses in Humans to Auditory and Visual Stimuli
10. "Cross-Modality" Experiments in Humans
11. The Bisensory Evoked Theta Response - A Correlate of Supramodal Association?
12. Evoked Delta Oscillations on the Hearing Threshold
13. Evoked Oscillations in Magnetoencephalography
III. Cognitive Processes
14. Selective Attention and Memory: Neurophysiology and Cognitive Psychology
15. Memory Templates in Event-Related Oscillations, P300, MMN
16. Dynamics of Compound Potentials (P300) in Freely Moving Cats
17. The Compound P300-40Hz Response of the Cat Hippocampus
18. Event-Related Potentials During States of High Expectancy: Results on the Cat Hippocampus, Cortex, and Reticular Formation
19. Event-Related Potentials During States of High Expectancy and Attention in Human Subjects
20. Topological Distribution of Oddball "P300" Responses
21. Wavelet Analysis of Oddball P300
22. Dynamic Memory Manifested by Induced Alpha
23. Event-Related Oscillationsas a Strategy in Cognition Research
IV. Integrative Systems in Brain Function
24. Functional Alphas Selectively Distributed in the Brain - A Theory
25. Theta Rhythms in Integrative Brain Function
26. Gamma-Band Responses in the Brain: Functional Significance
27. Structures, Brain Waves, and Their Functions
28. Brain Functioning: Integrative Models
29. EEG and Event-Related Oscillations as Brain Alphabet
30. Event-Related Oscillations in Brain Function
V. Conclusion
31. An Integrative Neurophysiology Based on Brain Oscillations
32. A "Neurons-Brain" Doctrine: New Thoughts
33. Epilogue: EEG Oscillations in Integrative-Cognitive Neurophysiology
References
Author Index.