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Auto-Adaptive Control of Central Plasticity: Observations and Speculations

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Synergetics of the Brain

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Experiments are described which demonstrate that internal neural parameters controlling the gain and dynamics of an involuntary brainstem reflex can be adaptively (i.e. advantageously) modified by adverse rearrangement of the external sensory environment. Presumably this autoadaptive capability normally serves to maintain proper matching between events in the external physical world and resulting neural signals synthesized within the central nervous system. Currently controversial views on central neural mechanisms responsible for this kind of autoadaptive control are discussed, as is their potential role in the rehabilitative guidance of central plasticity resulting from internal neural lesions.

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  1. Aviation Medical Research Unit, Dept. of Physiology, McGill University, Rm. 1223 McIntyre Medical Sciences Bldg., 3655 Drummond Street, Montreal, Quebec, H3G 1Y6, Canada

    G. Melvill Jones

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  1. Institut für Physiologie, Medizinische Hochschule Lübeck, Ratzeburger Allee 160, D-2400, Lübeck, Fed. Rep. of Germany

    Erol Başar

  2. Abteilung Neurobiologie, Universität Bremen, NW 2, D-2800, Bremen 33, Fed. Rep. of Germany

    Hans Flohr

  3. Institut für Theoretische Physik der Universität Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 57/IV, D-7000, Stuttgart 80, Fed. Rep. of Germany

    Hermann Haken

  4. Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093, USA

    Arnold J. Mandell

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Jones, G.M. (1983). Auto-Adaptive Control of Central Plasticity: Observations and Speculations. In: Başar, E., Flohr, H., Haken, H., Mandell, A.J. (eds) Synergetics of the Brain. Springer Series in Synergetics, vol 23. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69421-9_10

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