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Issue Articles
ACADEMIC
Revisiting Warren S. McCulloch
Warren McCulloch was one of the founders of the field of cybernetics. To understand the field of cybernetics, it is essential to understand his interests and career, even though his contributions are not currently as well-known as those of Norbert Wi... Read More
ACADEMIC
The projection of the frontal lobe on the hypothalamus
In spite of the recent interest in the functions of the hypothalamus, little definite information about its afferent connections is available. Although physiological studies have suggested that the neopallidal cerebral cortex exerts some degree of co... Read More
with WARREN S. McCULLOCH
ACADEMIC
A recapitulation of the theory with a forecast of several extensions
It is important to recapitulate, at this time, certain aspects of the theory of teleological mechanisms, and to indicate one or two directions in which progress is to be expected. The participants of this conference have come together from such unlik... Read More
with WALTER PITTS
ACADEMIC
Reflex inhibition by dorsal root interaction
Ballif et al., in 1925, found that a single shock to a mixed ipsilateral hind-limb nerve of a spinal or decerebrate cat inhibited the knee-jerk for hundreds of milliseconds, and they said that the cause of this phenomenon was still to be elucidated. ... Read More
with JERRY Y. LETTVIN WARREN S. McCULLOCH WALTER PITTS PAT D. WALL
ACADEMIC
Agathe Tyche, of nervous nets
Venn diagrams, with a jot in every space for all cases in which given logical functions are true, picture their truth tables. These symbols serve as arguments in similar expressions that use similar symbols for functions of functions. When jots appea... Read More
ACADEMIC
What's in the brain that ink may character?
Since we have come together as scientists who would become a bit wiser as to the process of our art, it is proper for us to ask what are the enduring qualities of our activities and what are our present problems. Whether he would create poetry, ficti... Read More