Self-Organization in the Nervous System

• Main Author: Yan M. Yufik (auth)
• Other Authors: Biswa Sengupta (auth), Karl Friston (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2017
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Neurosciences; consciousness; understanding; Markov blanket; Hebbian assembly; neuronal packet; Bayesian brain
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

This special issue reviews state-of-the-art approaches to the biophysical roots of cognition. These approaches appeal to the notion that cognitive capacities serve to optimize responses to changing external conditions. Crucially, this optimisation rests on the ability to predict changes in the envir...