Book Description:
What is the origin of meaning? How does the brain achieve symbolic computation? What are the neural correlates of cognitive processes? These challenging questions at the borderline between neuroscience, cognitive science, nonlinear dynamics, and philosophy are related to the symbol grounding problem: How is the meaning of words and utterances grounded in the dynamics of the brain and in the evolution of beings alive interacting with each other and with their environments? Simply by convention? Or is there an inherent correctness of names, of syllables, or even of sounds? This new book examines these important issues and presents probing analyses of the latest research.

Table of Contents:
Preface

Chapter 1 - Stability Conditions in Contextual Emergence; pp. 1-12
(H. Atmanspacher and R.C. Bishop)

Chapter 2 - Contextual Emergence of Mental States from Neurodynamics;
pp. 13-30
(H. Atmanspacher and P. beim Graben)

Chapter 3 - Phase Coupling Supports Associative Visual Processing: Physiology and Related Models; pp. 31-50
(R. Eckhorn, A. Gail, A. Bruns, A. Gabriel, B. Al-Shaikhli and M. Saam)

Chapter 4 - Processing of Positive versus Negative Emotional Words is Incorporated in Anterior versus Posterior Brain Areas: An ERP Microstate LORETA Study; pp. 51-73
(L.R.R. Gianotti, P.L. Faber, R.D. Pascual-Marqui,K. Kochi and D. Lehmann)

Chapter 5 - "Cognitive Genes" Reveal Higher Codon Complexity than
"Somatic Genes"; pp. 75-86
(C.S. Herrmann and W.S. Herrmann)

Chapter 6 - Mutual Phase Synchronization in Single Trial Data;
pp. 87-108
(A. Hutt and M.H.J. Munk)

Chapter 7 - Ordinal Analysis of EEG Time Series; pp. 109-119
(K. Keller, H. Lauffer and M. Sinn)

Chapter 8 - Robustifying EEG Data Analysis by Removing Outliers;
pp. 121-136
(M. Krauledat, G. Dornhege, B. Blankertz and K.-R. Müller)

Chapter 9 - Is Brain Activity Fractal?; pp. 137-147
(M. Le Van Quyen, M. Chavez, C. Adam and J. Martinerie)

Chapter 10 - The Timing of Neural Processes in Humans:
Beyond the Evoked Potentials; pp. 149-161
(N. Mainy, J. Jung, G. Commiterri, A. Berthoz, M. Baciu, L. Minotti,
D. Hoffmann, P. Kahane, O. Bertrand and J.-P. Lachaux)

Chapter 11 - Quantification of Order Patterns Recurrence
Plots of Event Related Potentials; pp. 163-176
(N. Marwan, A. Groth, and J. Kurths)

Chapter 12 - Neuronal Synchronization: From Dynamic
Feature Binding to Object Representations; pp. 177-187
(A. Maye and M. Werning)

Chapter 13 - Testing for Coupling Asymmetry Using Surrogate Data; pp. 189-205
(M. Paluš, B. Mussiza and A. Stefanovska)

Chapter 14 - What Can We Learn from Single-Trial Event-Related Potentials?; pp. 207-225
(R. Quian Quiroga, M. Atienza, J.L. Cantero and M.L.A. Jongsma)

Chapter 15 - The Internal Structure of the N400: Frequency Characteristics of a Language Related ERP Component; pp. 227-257
(D. Roehm, I. Bornkessel-Schlesewsky and M. Schlesewsky)

Chapter 16 - easuring the Thalamocortical Loop in Patients with Neurogenic Pain; pp. 259-273
(J. Sarnthein and D. Jeanmonod)

Chapter 17 - Assessment of Connectivity Patterns from Multivariate Time Series by Partial Directed Coherence; pp. 275-295
(S. Wehling, C. Simion, S. Shimojo and J. Bhattacharya)

Chapter 18 - The Cortical Implementation of Complex Attribute and Substance Concepts: Synchrony, Frames, and Hierarchical Binding;
pp. 297-314
(M. Werning and A. Maye)

Index