- Title Pages
- Open Letter to a Beginning Researcher in the Field of Human Single Neuron Investigations
-
1 Introduction -
2 Fifty-plus Years of Human Single Neuron Recordings: a Personal Perspective -
3 The Neurosurgical Theater of the Mind -
4 Ethical and Practical Considerations for Human Microelectrode Recording Studies -
5 Subchronic In Vivo Human Microelectrode Recording -
6 Data Analysis Techniques for Human Microwire Recordings: Spike Detection and Sorting, Decoding, Relation between Neurons and Local Field Potentials -
7 Single Neuron Correlates of Declarative Memory Formation and Retrieval in the Human Medial Temporal Lobe -
8 Visual Cognitive Adventures of Single Neurons in the Human Medial Temporal Lobe -
9 Navigating Our Environment: Insights from Single Neuron Recordings in the Human Brain -
10 Microelectrode Studies of Human Sleep -
11 Studying Thoughts and Deliberations Using Single Neuron Recordings inHumans -
12 Human Single Neuron Reward Processing in the Basal Ganglia and Anterior Cingulate -
13 Electrophysiological Responses to Faces in the Human Amygdala -
14 Human Lateral Temporal Cortical Single Neuron Activity during Language, Recent Memory, and Learning -
15 Microelectrode Recordings in Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery -
16 Microstimulation Effects on Thalamic Neurons -
17 Human Single Unit Activity for Reach and Grasp Motor Prostheses -
18 Human Single Neuron Recording as an Approach to Understand the Neurophysiology of Seizure Generation -
19 The Next Ten Years and Beyond - Contributors
- Index
Visual Cognitive Adventures of Single Neurons in the Human Medial Temporal Lobe
Visual Cognitive Adventures of Single Neurons in the Human Medial Temporal Lobe
- Chapter:
- (p.121) 8 Visual Cognitive Adventures of Single Neurons in the Human Medial Temporal Lobe
- Source:
- Single Neuron Studies of the Human Brain
- Author(s):
Itzhak Fried
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
This chapter summarizes some of the work examining visual cognition through recordings of single neurons in the human medial temporal lobe (MTL). These recordings were performed in patients with pharmacologically intractable epilepsy as part of the procedure to determine the seizure focus for surgical resection. Neurons respond to complex stimuli, sometimes associating seemingly distinct stimuli, typically with sparse responses and long latencies. These recordings have opened the doors to interrogate the human brain at unprecedented resolution and are beginning to reveal a bewildering complexity in the representation of the inner cognitive world.
Keywords: Medial temporal lobe, Visual cognition, Sparseness, Invariance, Associations, Learning, Memory, Latency
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- Title Pages
- Open Letter to a Beginning Researcher in the Field of Human Single Neuron Investigations
-
1 Introduction -
2 Fifty-plus Years of Human Single Neuron Recordings: a Personal Perspective -
3 The Neurosurgical Theater of the Mind -
4 Ethical and Practical Considerations for Human Microelectrode Recording Studies -
5 Subchronic In Vivo Human Microelectrode Recording -
6 Data Analysis Techniques for Human Microwire Recordings: Spike Detection and Sorting, Decoding, Relation between Neurons and Local Field Potentials -
7 Single Neuron Correlates of Declarative Memory Formation and Retrieval in the Human Medial Temporal Lobe -
8 Visual Cognitive Adventures of Single Neurons in the Human Medial Temporal Lobe -
9 Navigating Our Environment: Insights from Single Neuron Recordings in the Human Brain -
10 Microelectrode Studies of Human Sleep -
11 Studying Thoughts and Deliberations Using Single Neuron Recordings inHumans -
12 Human Single Neuron Reward Processing in the Basal Ganglia and Anterior Cingulate -
13 Electrophysiological Responses to Faces in the Human Amygdala -
14 Human Lateral Temporal Cortical Single Neuron Activity during Language, Recent Memory, and Learning -
15 Microelectrode Recordings in Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery -
16 Microstimulation Effects on Thalamic Neurons -
17 Human Single Unit Activity for Reach and Grasp Motor Prostheses -
18 Human Single Neuron Recording as an Approach to Understand the Neurophysiology of Seizure Generation -
19 The Next Ten Years and Beyond - Contributors
- Index
