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  • Cover image; Title page; Table of Contents; OTHER TITLES IN THE SERIES IN Cerebrovisceral and Behavioral Physiology and Conditioned Reflexes; Copyright; Editor's Preface; Author's Preface to the English-Language Edition; Author's Preface to the Russian Edition; Foreword to the English-Language Edition; Chapter 1: The Biological Roots of the Conditioned Reflex; Publisher Summary; STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM; ADAPTIVE FEATURES OF THE CONDITIONED REFLEX; THE TEMPORAL STRUCTURE OF THE WORLD; TIME AND PRIMORDIAL LIFE; SEQUENTIAL ORDER OF EXTERNAL INFLUENCES AND LIVING PROTOPLASM.
  • ANTICIPATORY REFLECTION OF EVENTS OF THE EXTERNAL WORLD IN LIVING PROTOPLASMANTICIPATORY PROCESSES OF PROTOPLASM AND THE CONDITIONED REFLEX; INBORN SIGNALIZATION IN HIGHER ANIMALS; Chapter 2: The Nature of the Unconditioned Reflex; Publisher Summary; SIGNIFICANCE OF THE TEMPORAL RELATIONSHIPS OF CONDITIONED AND UNCONDITIONED REFLEXES; FIXATION OF SEQUENTIAL ORDER WITHOUT THE FACTOR OF REINFORCEMENT; THE AFFERENT STRUCTURE OF UNCONDITIONED STIMULATION; THE BIOLOGICAL NATURE OF REINFORCEMENT; Chapter 3: Systemogenesis as an Evolutionary Basis for the Development of Unconditioned Reflexes.
  • Publisher SummaryTHE THEORY OF THE FUNCTIONAL SYSTEM; HETEROCHRONIA OF GROWTH, THE FUNCTIONAL SYSTEM, AND SYSTEMOGENESIS; CHEMICAL PREREQUISITES FOR THE MATURATION OF THE FUNCTIONAL SYSTEM OF THE BRAIN; EXAMPLES OF HETEROCHRONOUS MATURATION OF THE COMPONENTS OF DIFFERENT FUNCTIONAL SYSTEMS; SYSTEMOGENESIS AS THE REGULATOR OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF INBORN NERVOUS ACTIVITY; THE ONTOGENETIC DEVELOPMENT OF ASCENDING INFLUENCES ON THE CEREBRAL CORTEX; THE FUNCTIONAL SYSTEM AS A BASIS FOR THE FORMATION OF THE FIRST CONDITIONED REFLEX CONNECTIONS.
  • Chapter 4: Recent Theories on the Coupling of the Conditioned ReflexPublisher Summary; CONCEPTS CONCERNING THE NATURE OF THE COUPLING PROCESS; Chapter 5: The Hypothesis of the Convergent Coupling of the Conditioned Reflex; Publisher Summary; THE NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL NATURE OF INDIFFERENT AND UNCONDITIONED STIMULI; THE CONVERGENCE OF DIVERSE IMPULSES ON THE RETICULAR AND CORTICAL NEURONS; THE MOLECULAR THEORY OF MEMORY IN RELATION TO THE COUPLING OF THE CONDITIONED REFLEX; Chapter 6: The Functional System as a Basis of the Physiological Architecture of the Behavioral Act; Publisher Summary.
  • The concept of the integrative activity of the nervous systemthe functional system and its physiological properties; afferent synthesis as a specific mechanism of the functional system; the neurophysiological substrate of afferent synthesis; decision making as a key mechanism of the functional system; the results of action as an independent physiological category; reverse afferentation; the prediction and examining of the results of action; a hypothesis concerning the possible neurophysiological substrate of the action acceptor.