SUBJECT INDEX 



A 



Afferents 



interaction of, 285-289, 296 

 peripheral, 383, 385, 390-393 



After discharge, 199, 218, 382 



All-or-none law, 381, 397 



Amino acids, 62-67, 72, 103 



Amnesia, retrograde, 189, 224, 366 



Assimilated rhythms, 247, 248 



Attention, 48, 233, 361 



Auditory mechanisms, 266, 285, 307 



Automata theory, 284, 377 



Axons, 190, 284, 289, 293-347, 371, 379, 



B 



Bacteria, 59, 102, 106, 139 



DNA from, 102 



metabolism of, 97 



mutant strains, 63 

 Bacteriophages, 94, 110, 123, 124, 127 



T-even, 79, 85 



T-4 mutants, 82 



nitrous acid induced mutants, 97 

 Base pairing, 62, 65 



specific, 79 

 Behavior 



differential conditioned, 274 



disturbed, 179 



ordered, 306, 355 



purposive, 398 

 Binary representation in computers, 27- 



30 

 Binary units, 6, 9, 10 

 Biomass, 144, 149, 151, 155, 164 

 Brain 



information storage in, 56 



information transfer ir, 240 



number of neurons in, 361 



c 



Calculation 



error-free, 292, 293 

 Calculus, logical, 55, 284, 377 

 Cannibalism experiments, 369 

 Channel 



Capacity, 12, 15, 142, 240, 295, 308, 

 311, 325 



communication, 7, 52 



correction, 15, 142 



length of, 308 



noise, 240 



overloaded, 31 1 

 Chlorophyll, 150, 155, 157 

 Coding 



genetic, 61, 76, 82, 112, 353 



in nerve cells, 246 



in nervous system, 233 



in time domain, 330 



of language, 43-48 



spatio-temporal patterns of, 279-282 

 Coincidence analysis, 243, 278, 340 

 Communication 



accuracy in, 26 



channels, 12, 54, 142, 240 



economics of, 25, 372 



pathological alteration, 180 



systems, 12, 15, 25, 242, 373 



theory, 12, 17, 142, 230, 308 

 Communities 



adaptability of, 166 



bioenergetics of, 140, 147 



complexity of, 1 43 



diversity of, 162 



energy balance in, 163 



stability of, 143 



trophodynamics, 140, 147 

 Computation, error-free, 290 

 Computers 



averaging by, 233 



coding in, 31, 36, 37 



407 



