Table of Contents

Part 1 Fundamental anatomy, physiology, and plasticity of the olfactory system: computational structure of the olfactory system, Gordon M. Shepherd; the salamander olfactory pathway - visualizing and modeling circuit activity, John S. Kauer, et al; fast oscillations and dispersive propagation in olfactory cortex and other cortical areas - a functional hypothesis, Kevin L. Ketchum and Lewis B. Haberly; olfactory input to the prefrontal cortex, Joseph L. Price, et al; plasticity in the developing olfactory system, Michael Leon, et al; serial steps in memory processing - possible clues from studies of plasticity in the olfactory - Hippocampal circuit, Gary Lynch and Richard Granger; building a model of the Hippocampus in olfaction and memory, Howard Eichenbaum, et al. Part 2 Developments in computational models of the olfactory system: pattern segmentation in associative memory, DeLiang Wang, et al; nonlinear dynamics in olfactory information processing, Walter J. Freeman; specific behavioral predictions from simulations of th olfactory system, Richard Granger, et al; piriform cortex and olfactory object recognition, James M. Bower; a proposed architecture for a second-generation neurocomputer, Dan Hammerstrom and Eric Means.

About the Author

Joel L. Davis is Program Officer, Cognitive, Neural, and Biomolecular Science and Technology Division, Office of Naval Research. Howard Eichenbaum is Professor of Biological Sciences at Wellesley College.