Neuronal Cells Spontaneous Activity is One of the Key Functional Aspects of Brain Information Processing: Neurosurgical Case Analysis

Abstract

Email: oleg@iws.com.ua. ABSTRACT The article examines the role of the spontaneous activity of neurons, and therefore, of brain neural networks, in information processing. Analysis of the spontaneous activity of neural networks is based on data obtained during neurosurgical operations conducted by W. Penfield. The case of frequentative electrode stimulation of the human brain temporal cortex and the patient simultaneous interview were analyzed. Such a survey revealed that the irritation of a specific localization caused the actualization in a person memory of an episode of her past according to this localization. The analysis of the spontaneous activity of neural networks of the brain is based on comparing the conditions of conducting this experiment, in which the actualization of long-term memory occurs artificially that is, with the help of electrode stimulation of the corresponding neural networks (and therefore guaranteed not spontaneously), with the conditions for actualizing long-term memory during the natural processing information in neural networks of the brain.