NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL CODES OF WORDS IN SUB-CORTICAL STRUCTURES OF THE HUMAN-BRAIN

Investigations into the cerebral mechanisms of mental activity, using modern mathematical-technical capabilities, allows the transition from study of structural-functional organization to a new stage: the study of neural coding of these cerebral processes. Here we present the results of studying the elementary components of the neurophysiological pattern-code of words and the neurophysiological correlates of the simplest mental processes, generalization, and mental conclusion. The elementary components of the pattern-code are the group sequences of neuronal firing with comparatively stable intervals in between. The processes of mental conclusion and decision making occur when full, compressed, and complex patterns-codes appear in the brain. In discussing the data obtained, the problems of relationship between a part and the whole in activity of cerebral systems is considered, and the hypothesis of a dynamic pace-maker mechanism for cerebral organization of mental activity, is proposed. © 1979.