23 problems in systems neuroscience

pt. I. How have brains evolved? Shall we even understand the fly's brain? / Gilles Laurent -- Can we understand the action of brains in natural environments? / Hermann Wagner and Bernhard Gaese -- Hemisphere dominance of brain function -- which functions are lateralized and why? / Günter Ehret -- pt. II. How is the cerebral cortex organized? What is the function of the thalamus? / S. Murray Sherman -- What is a neuronal map, how does it arise, and what is it good for? / J. Leo van Hemmen -- What is fed back? / Jean Bullier -- How can the brain be so fast? / Wulfram Gerstner -- What is the neural code? / C. van Vreeswijk -- Are single cortical neurons soloists or are they obedient members of a huge orchestra? / Tal Kenet ... [et al.] -- What is the other 85 percent of V1 doing? / Bruno A. Olshausen and David J. Field -- pt. IV. What can brains compute? Which computation runs in visual cortical columns? / Steven W. Zucker -- Are neurons adapted for specific computations? Examples from temporal coding in the auditory system / C.E. Car ... [et al.]. How is time represented in the brain? / Andreas V.M. Herz -- How general are neural codes in sensory systems? / David McAlpine and Alan R. Palmer -- How does the hearing system perform auditory scene analysis? / Georg M. Klump -- How does our visual system achieve shift and size invariance? / Laurenz Wiskott -- pt. V. Organization of cognitive systems. What is reflected in sensory neocortical activity: external stimuli or what the cortex does with them? / Henning Scheich ... [et al.] -- Do perception and action result from different brain circuits? The three visual systems hypothesis / Giacomo Rizzolatti and Vittorio Gallese -- What are the projective fields of cortical neurons? / Terrence J. Sejnowski -- How are the features of objects integrated into perceptual wholes that are selected by attention? / John H. Reynolds -- Where are the switches on this thing? / L.F. Abbott -- Synesthesia: what does it tell us about the emergence of qualia, metaphor, abstract thought, and language? / V.S. Ramachandran and Edward M. Hubbard -- What are the neuronal correlates of consciousness? / Francis C. Crick and Christof Koch.