Efferent Organization and The Integration of Behavior
- 1st Edition - January 1, 1973
- Editor: Jack Maser
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 4 7 6 9 5 0 - 2
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 4 3 1 5 0 1 - 3
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 1 5 3 0 3 - 4
Efferent Organization and the Integration of Behavior is a nine-chapter text that discusses the hypotheses and alternative conceptualizations of efferent mechanisms, as well as the… Read more

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Request a sales quoteEfferent Organization and the Integration of Behavior is a nine-chapter text that discusses the hypotheses and alternative conceptualizations of efferent mechanisms, as well as the neural basis of patterned movement. The opening chapters examine several behavioral categories, the neural mediation of movement, and the distinction between efferent response and efferent motor processes. These chapters also present a revised theory of the role of the motor system in physiological regulation and neural-metabolic integration in energy production for behavior. These topics are followed by considerable chapters devoted to efferent organization of specific brain sections, including the motor cortex, pyramidal system, globus pallidus, substantia nigra, diencephalon, hippocampus, and neocortex. This text also deals with the instrumental conditioning based on alimentary or food reinforcements. A chapter discusses the constraints on theoretical interpretations of neuroanatomical circuitry functions of noradrenergic and cholinergic brain systems. The concluding chapter describes the relationship between the motor integration systems of extrapyramidal structures and the motivational systems of limbic structures. This chapter also looks into the anatomical organization of self-stimulation and the microelectrode data, which delineate the response of single neurons to stimulation at hypothalamic self-stimulation sites.
List of Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Efferent Response Processes: Relationships among Stimuli, Movement, and Reinforcement
I. Purpose
II. Behavioral Classification
III. Distinctions between Motor and Response Processes
IV. Current Theoretical Developments
V. Summary
2. Physiological and Sensory Feedback of the Motor System: Neural-Metabolic Integration for Energy Regulation in Behavior
I. Introduction
II. The Brain as a Multidimensional Feedback Control System
III. The Locus and Mechanisms of Energy Production for Behavior
IV. Systems Feedback Research on Behavioral-Physiological Interaction
V. Central-Neural versus Motor-System Feedback Control of Organic Rhythms
VI. Dynamic Efferent Organization in Physiological Feedback Regulation and Learning: Theoretical Summary
3. Motor Cortex and the Pyramidal System
I. Introduction
II. Organization of the Pyramidal System
III. Physiological Considerations
4. Subcortical Mechanisms of Behavioral Plasticity
I. Introduction
II. Behavioral Plasticity in Decorticate Preparations
III. Behavioral Plasticity in Decerebrate Preparations
IV. Behavioral Plasticity in Spinal Preparations
V. Electrophysiological Studies of Response Plasticity
VI. Retention
VII. Summary
5. Comparisons of the Efferent Projections of the Globus Pallidus and Substantia Nigra in the Monkey
I. Introduction
II. Material and Methods
III. Discussion
6. The Role of Prefrontal Control in the Programming of Motor Behavior
I. General Considerations
II. Simple S - R Conditioning
III. Pavlovian R-no R Differentiation
IV. R-no R Both Reinforced Differentiation
V. R1 - R2 Differentiation
VI. Delayed Responses
VII. General Discussion
VIII. Summary
7. The Development of Operant Responses by Noradrenergic Activation and Cholinergic Suppression of Movements
I. Introduction
II. The Suppression of Operant Behavior Associated with Punishment
III. Evidence for a Cholinergic Punishment System in the Periventricular Hypothalamus (PVS)
IV. A Glycinergic Influence of Long-lasting Duration in the Periventricular Hypothalamus
V. Atropine Disinhibits Suppressed Behaviors at Sites Where Norepinephrine is Ineffective
VI. Separation of Brain Systems for Operant and Consummatory Responses
VII. Selectivity of Action of the Cholinergic Suppression System in the Septal Area
VIII. Functions of the Noradrenergic Neurons in the Amygdala
IX. Norepinephrine Has an Antipunishment Action in the Dentate Gyrus
X. Summary
8. Diencephalic, Hippocampal, and Neocortical Mechanisms in Voluntary Movement
I. Introduction
II. Relation of Hippocampal and Neocortical EEG to Behavior
III. Effects of Electrical Stimulation of the Hippocampal Formation
IV. RSA Amplitude and Frequency in Relation to Behavior
V. Hypothalamic-Hippocampal Relations and Behavior
VI. Effect of Phenothiazines on Hippocampal Activity and on Behavior
VII. Discussion
9. Intracranial Self-Stimulation Pathways as Substrate for Stimulus-Response Integration
I. Introduction
II. Demonstration of Self-Stimulation
III. The Questioning of Basic Assumptions
IV. Pathways of Self-Stimulation: Methodological Considerations
V. Pathways of Self-Stimulation: Results
VI. Electrophysiology of Self-Stimulation
VII. Final Overview
VIII. Summary
References and Author Index
Subject Index
- No. of pages: 382
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: January 1, 1973
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Hardback ISBN: 9780124769502
- Paperback ISBN: 9780124315013
- eBook ISBN: 9780323153034
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