Brain Rhythms with György Buzsáki (BSP 31)
/
- György Buzsáki, Professor of Neuroscience at Rutgers University
- Stephen Strogatz: known for his discovery of "small world" architecture
- His 2003 bestseller Sync: The emerging science of spontaneous order is aimed at a general audience
- Nancy Kopell: mathematician
- Buzsaki recommends her review of the analytical approaches to neuronal oscillators: We got Rhythm: Dynamical Systems of the Nervous System. N Am Math Soc 47: 6-16 (2000).
- Zoltán Néda (Bebes-Bolyai University Romania): the spontaneous synchronization of hand clapping
- Hermann Haken: German laser physicist who studies bidirectional causation
- The Science of Structure: Synergetics (1984)
- John O'Keefe (University College, London): along with Lynn Nadel he discovered how the hippocampus forms a cognitive map of the world
- He has shown how the timing of osscillations in the hippocampus are important
- "Independent rate and temporal coding in hippocampal pyramidal cells" by John Huxter, Neil Burgess, and John O'Keefe. Nature 425, 828-832 (23 October 2003)
- David McCormick (Yale University): showed that neurons from the thalamus of a ferret can oscillate spontaneously
- He has also studied the oscillations of place cells in the hippocampus
- David Hubel and Thorston Wiesal: along with Vernon Montcastle they pioneered the use of single neuron recordings in the neocortex of casts and monkeys
- Montcastle, VB (1997) "The Columnar Organization of the Neocortex." Brain 102:01-722.
- Claude Shannon: founder of Information Theory
- Jan Born (University of Lübeck, Germany): experiments with how sleep improves both memory and problem solving
- Basics of oscillations and synchrony
- What functions are accomplished by brain rhythms?
- The role of hippocampal ripples in memory
- What happens to our brain rhythms while we sleep
- The importance of synchrony in saving energy in the brain

