ISBN : 9780198749783
In the late 1960s and early 1970s David Marr produced three astonishing papers in which he gave a detailed account of how the fine structure and known cell types of the cerebellum, hippocampus and neocortex perform the functions that they do. Marr went on to become one of the main founders of Computational Neuroscience. In his classic work 'Vision' he distinguished between the computational, algorithmic, and implementational levels, and the three early theories concerned implementation. However, they were produced when Neuroscience was in its infancy. Now that so much more is known, it is timely to revisit these early theories to see to what extent they are still valid and what needs to be altered to produce viable theories that stand up to current evidence. This book brings together some of the most distinguished scientists in their fields to evaluate Marr's legacy. After a general introduction there are three chapters on the cerebellum, three on the hippocampus and two on the neocortex. The book ends with an appreciation of the life of David Marr by Lucia Vaina.
Introduction
Richard E. Passingham: Marr's views on the functions of the cerebellum, neocortex and archicortex
Section 1: A Theory of Cerebellar Cortex
1 Takeru Honda and Masao Ito: Development from Marr's theory of the cerebellum
2 Egidio D'Angelo: Challenging Marr's theory of cerebellum
3 Paul Dean & John Porrill: The importance of Marr's three levels of analysis for understanding cerebellar function
Section 2: Simple Memory: A Theory for Archicortex
4 Alessandro Treves: The dentate gyrus, defining a new memory of David Marr
5 Michael E. Hasselmo: Marr's influence on the standard model of hippocampus, and the need for more theoretical advances
6 Suzanna Becker: Marr's simple memory theory of archicortex, then and now: four decades later, things are not quite as simple
Section 3: A theory of Neocortex
7 Rodney Douglas and Kevan Martin: Visions of the neocortex
8 David Willshaw and Peter Dayan: Unsupervized yearning: Marr's theory of the neocortex
David Marr
10 Lucia M Vaina: David Marr 1945-1980