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A model for visual shape recognition.
- P. Milner
- Psychology, Medicine
- Psychological review
- 1 November 1974
Note on a possible correspondence between the scotomas of migraine and spreading depression of Leão.
- P. Milner
- Psychology, Medicine
- Electroencephalography and clinical…
- 1 November 1958
Abstract By plotting his own scotomas at regular intervals during migraine attacks, Lashley came to the conclusion that a disturbance was advancing at about 3 mm/min. over the visual cortex. The… Expand
Neural Representations: Some Old Problems Revisited
- P. Milner
- Psychology, Medicine
- Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
- 1996
Hebb's (1949) cell assembly, originally conceived as an explanation for stimulus equivalence, also serves as a neural representation of stimuli. Association between cell assemblies was a major theme… Expand
The psychobiology of reinforcers.
INTRODUCT ION .. . . . . . . .. .. . . . . . . . . .. . . . . .. . . . . .... . . .. . ... . . .... . . . 443 ENHANCING FUNCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .… Expand
Plasticity of the medial prefrontal cortex: Facilitated acquisition of intracranial self-stimulation by pretraining stimulation
- D. Corbett, A. Laferrière, P. Milner
- Psychology, Medicine
- Physiology & Behavior
- 1 March 1982
Prior electrical stimulation of the medial prefrontal cortex MFC facilitated the subsequent acquisition of intracranial self-stimulation (ICSS) from the same MFC electrode site. Stimulations that… Expand
A cell assembly theory of hippocampal amnesia
- P. Milner
- Psychology, Medicine
- Neuropsychologia
- 31 December 1989
Recent memories are more susceptible to amnesic loss than older memories, the time scale being much longer than can reasonably be explained by a passive chemical or morphological change. A possible… Expand
The discovery of self-stimulation and other stories
- P. Milner
- Psychology, Medicine
- Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
- 1 June 1989
The author's recollections of the events leading to the discovery of rewarding brain stimulation at McGill University in 1953, with a history of his subsequent attempts to find a learning theory… Expand
The functional nature of neuronal oscillations
- P. Milner
- Psychology, Medicine
- Trends in Neurosciences
- 1992
neuronal oscillations Singer and his colleagues have reported that oscillations of 30 70Hz occur in cat and monkey visual cortex 1'2 that can be synchronous across cortical columns 3. They have… Expand
A brief history of the Hebbian learning rule.
- P. Milner
- Psychology
- 1 February 2003
Abstract Hebb included a version of his neural postulate of learning in his MA thesis (1932). It seems to be a translation of Pavlovian conditioning into neural terms. The version that appears in his… Expand