Abstract
One of the greatest challenges of brain research is to relate the anatomical (substratum-) structure of the brain to its functional performance. The behaviour of biological organisms is goal-oriented, with the basic aim of surviving and optimizing its performance in a given environment. The brain performs the control functions in this activity, as well as efficiently communicating with the environment. This control and communication are performed in a hierarchy of many different functional levels. An understanding of the interrelations is necessary for further progress of basic research in theoretical brain sciences, as well as in more practically-oriented clinical neurology. The complex methodological issues involved here are essentially methodological problems of an applied systems science.
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Kohout, L.J. (1978). Functional Hierarchies in the Brain. In: Klir, G.J. (eds) Applied General Systems Research. NATO Conference Series, vol 5. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-0555-3_40
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