ISBN 978-3-00-068559-0
Monografie von Dr. rer. nat. Andreas Heinrich Malczan
Figure 1: Rope ladder nervous system 9
Figure 2: Body and neural tube - mapping topology 11
Figure 3: Theoretical model of the nervous system 23
Figure 4: The breakdown of modalities 32
Figure 5: Splitting the visual modalities 35
Figure 6: Signal divergence and signal convergence in the cortical floor 41
Figure 7: Response categories of individual cortical cells 44
Figure 8: The inputs from both eyes converge in V1 of the monkey. 44
Figure 9: Cable equation for markless fibres 46
Figure 10: Excitation propagation in the plane - seen from the side 47
Figure 11: Excitation propagation in the plane - seen from above 48
Figure 12: Divergence module for colour vision red-green 54
Figure 13- Firing rates in the vertical divergence module 57
Figure 14: Brightness module 63
Figure 15: Coding of the direction of movement by active neuron populations 68
Figure 16: Original quantities u and v in the Cartesian coordinate system 70
Figure 17: Linear and plane divergence module in comparison 71
Figure 18: Plane divergence module with four input neurons 71
Figure 19: Radius vector t as a function of x and y - seen from the side 77
Figure 20: Radius vector t as a function of x and y - seen from above 78
Figure 21: Original size w as a function of x and y - seen from the side 78
Figure 22: Original size w as a function of x and y - seen from above 79
Figure 23: Chord length at the circle 84
Figure 24: Change in tendon length with parallel displacement to itself 84
Figure 25: Calculating the chord length on the circle 85
Figure 26: Derivation of the formulas for the chord length of receptive fields 86
Figure 27: Arrangement of four ganglion cells in the Cartesian coordinate system 87
Figure 28: Four cortical output neurons in the brightness module with lateral signal superimposition 89
Figure 29: Angle of attack Phi of a straight line as a function of x and y - seen from the side 95
Figure 30: Angle of attack Phi in the brightness module with lateral signal overlay - seen from above 96
Figure 31: Brightness module with spatial signal propagation 99
Figure 32: Calculation of the chord length for a receptive field of a ganglion cell 100
Figure 33: Arrangement of four ganglion cells in the Cartesian coordinate system 101
Figure 34: Four cortical output neurons in the brightness module with spatial signal propagation 103
Figure 35: Derivation of the length of the radius vectors for the brightness module with spatial signal propagation 104
Figure 36: Focus module - simplified representation 119
Figure 37: Basal ganglia module and its circuitry for motor signals 126
Figure 38: Divergence and convergence in the cortical floor 133
Figure 39: Convergence module for the red-green colour module with vertical signal propagation 136
Figure 40: Fire rates vertical convergence module 138
Figure 41: Fire rates vertical divergence module 138
Figure 42: Linking divergence modulus and convergence modulus with lateral signal superposition 140
Figure 43: Primitive nucleus olivaris with the mean area of the projection to the future pontocerebellum. 147
Figure 44: Periodic inhibition of mean climbing fibre signals by the striatum 151
Figure 45: Climbing fibre signals in the pontocerebellum - basic appearance 151
Figure 46: Cluster group in the cortex 153
Figure 47: Structure of a cluster of neurons in the cortex 154
Figure 48: Cerebellum and inverse cerebellum - basic circuitry 172
Figure 49: Basic structure of the hippocampus using the example of a moss fibre 176
Figure 50: Principle of signal rotation in the limbic system according to A. Malczan, 2013 177
Figure 51: The integration of new submodalities into the old rope ladder nervous system 182
Figure 52: The three subsystems of the brain: primary, secondary and tertiary system 192
Monograph of Dr. rer. nat. Andreas Heinrich Malczan