From Brains to Systems

1. Introduction
Ricardo Sanz, Carlos Hernández, Jaime Gómez-Ramirez

2. Emergent Feature Sensitivity in a Model of the Auditory Thalamocortical System
Martin Coath, Robert Mill, Susan L. Denham, Thomas Wennekers

3. STDP Pattern Onset Learning Depends on Background Activity
James Humble, Steve Furber, Susan L. Denham, Thomas Wennekers

4. Emergence of Small-World Structure in Networks of Spiking Neurons Through STDP Plasticity
Gleb Basalyga, Pablo M. Gleiser, Thomas Wennekers

5. Coupling BCM and Neural Fields for the Emergence of Self-organization Consensus
Mathieu Lefort, Yann Boniface, Bernard Girau

6. Alpha and Theta Rhythm Abnormality in Alzheimer’s Disease: A Study Using a Computational Model
Basabdatta Sen Bhattacharya, Damien Coyle, Liam P. Maguire

7. Oscillatory Neural Network for Image Segmentation with Biased Competition for Attention
Tapani Raiko, Harri Valpola

8. Internal Simulation of Perceptions and Actions
Magnus Johnsson, David Gil

9. Building Neurocognitive Networks with a Distributed Functional Architecture
Marmaduke Woodman, Dionysios Perdikis, Ajay S. Pillai, Silke Dodel, Raoul Huys, Steven Bressler, Viktor Jirsa

10. Reverse Engineering for Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures: A Critical Analysis
Andreas Schierwagen

11. Competition in High Dimensional Spaces Using a Sparse Approximation of Neural Fields
Jean-Charles Quinton, Bernard Girau, Mathieu Lefort

12. Informational Theories of Consciousness: A Review and Extension
Igor Aleksander, David Gamez

13. Hippocampal Categories: A Mathematical Foundation for Navigation and Memory
Jaime Gómez-Ramirez, Ricardo Sanz

14. The Role of Feedback in a Hierarchical Model of Object Perception
Salvador Dura-Bernal, Thomas Wennekers, Susan L. Denham

15. Machine Free Will: Is Free Will a Necessary Ingredient of Machine Consciousness?
Riccardo Manzotti

16. Natural Evolution of Neural Support Vector Machines
Magnus Jändel

17. Self-conscious Robotic System Design Process—From Analysis to Implementation
Antonio Chella, Massimo Cossentino, Valeria Seidita

18. Simulating Visual Qualia in the CERA-CRANIUM Cognitive Architecture
Raúl Arrabales, Agapito Ledezma, Araceli Sanchis

19. The Ouroboros Model, Selected Facets
Knud Thomsen

Keywords: Biomedicine, Neurosciences, Computation by Abstract Devices, Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics), Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet), Signal, Image and Speech Processing