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Our laboratory has been interested in understanding the neural mechanisms involved in information processing in neocortex, especially in those structures that regulate the sensory and cardiovascular systems. Studies in comparative physiology suggest a theoretical basis for the regulation of the cardiovascular system by the brain. Following his life’s work, Cannon (1931) hypothesized the existence of a cerebral mechanism in which sensory input and autonomic output were simultaneously orchestrated; this orchestration, he suggested, became a focus for natural selection and evolved to enable the higher mammal to attend to its environment and simultaneously to prepare autonomic support in anticipation of the occurrence of certain survival behaviors that might be released.
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Skinner, J.E., Mitra, M., Fulton, K. (1991). Low-Dimensional Chaos in a Simple Biological Model of Neocortex. In: Carlson, J.G., Seifert, A.R. (eds) International Perspectives on Self-Regulation and Health. The Springer Series in Behavioral Psychophysiology and Medicine. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2596-1_5
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