Guest Edited by: MICHAEL R. LISSACK, ANNA L. HOLLAND
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EDITORIAL
A brief note from Anna Holland (McCulloch's granddaughter)
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ACADEMIC
Recollections of the many sources of cybernetics
Norbert Wiener - five years my senior - wrote elegantly of "Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine" as he saw it coming, and christened it Cybernetics. For years his scientific activities had been leading to it. He had been unable to... Read More
ACADEMIC
A logical calculus of the ideas immanent in nervous activity
Because of the "all-or-none" character of nervous activity, neural events and the relations among them can be treated by means of propositional logic. It is found that the behavior of every net can be described in these terms, with the addition of mo... Read More
with WALTER PITTS
ACADEMIC
Functional organization the sensory cortex of the monkey (Macaca Mulatta)
In 1924 the location and extent of the sensory cortex were established in the brain of the monkey (Macaca) by means of the method of local strychninization. This cortex was found to occupy a large portion of the post- and precentral region, and to co... Read More
with WARREN S. McCULLOCH
ACADEMIC
Factors for facilitation and extinction in the central nervous system
The Phenomenon now known as "facilitation" was discovered in 1881 by Bubnoff and Heidenhain who observed that, with an interval of only a few seconds, repetition of supraliminal stimulation of a "motor" focus of the cerebral cortex elicited a larger ... Read More
with WARREN S. McCULLOCH
ACADEMIC
The statistical organization of nervous activity
This is not a review of neurophysiology but a synopsis of some theories which may lead to an understanding of the mental aspects of nervous activity, namely ideas and purposes. The highway to ideas lies through statistical conceptions from their logi... Read More
with WALTER PITTS