title: The use of many-body physics and thermodynamics to describe the dynamics of rhythmic generators in sensory cortices engaged in memory and learning.
abstract: The problem of the transition from the molecular and cellular level to the macroscopic level of observed assemblies of myriads of neurons is the subject addressed in this report. The great amount of detailed information available at molecular and cellular level seems not sufficient to account for the high effectiveness and reliability observed in the brain macroscopic functioning. It is suggested that the dissipative many-body model and thermodynamics might offer the dynamical frame underlying the rich phenomenology observed at microscopic and macroscopic level and help in the understanding on how to fill the gap between the bio-molecular and cellular level and the one of brain macroscopic functioning.
authors: Dipartimento di Fisica "E.R. Caianiello", Università di Salerno, Fisciano, I-84084 Salerno, Italy; Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Gruppo Collegato di Salerno, Fisciano, I-84084 Salerno, Italy. Electronic address: vitiello@sa.infn.it.
authors: Giuseppe
authors: G
authors: Vitiello
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning / Q000502:physiology*; D008959:Models, Neurological; D017711:Nonlinear Dynamics; D013003:Somatosensory Cortex / Q000502:physiology*; D013816:Thermodynamics