410 



Information Storage and Neural Control 



O 



Omission, 260, 311, 317, 319, 324, 325 

 Order 



functional, 355 



structural, 355 

 Outputs, 38, 142, 233, 288, 292-297, 



302-308, 311, 318, 326, 356 

 Overload, see Information overload 



Perception, 283, 284, 304 

 Performance 



erroneous, 269, 275 



principle factors limiting, 309 



under overload conditions, 320, 323 

 Period analysis, 189, 329, 340-348, 359 

 Photosynthesis, 154-156, 164, 165 

 Planaria, 368 



cannabalism studies, 370 

 ■ Poliovirus 



biosynthesis of, 132 



multiplication of, 133 



properties of, 127 

 Prediction, 174, 181 

 ProbabiHstic models, 230, 233 

 Probability, 10, 11, 19, 20, 25, 41-43, 



143, 145, 326 

 Problem solving, 35 

 Protein 



specificity, 59, 68 



structure, 62, 70, 72 



synthesis, 59, 64-68, 70, 108, 124, 371 



viral, 129-132 

 Purines, 60, 61, 76, 79 

 Pyrimidine, 60, 61, 76, 79, 103 



Q 



Queuing, 311, 317, 321, 324 



R 



Random processes, 232 



Receiver, 6, 25, 303 



Redundancy, 7, 14, 25, 26, 84, 122, 173, 



181, 283 

 Reinforcement, 175-177, 259, 269,272 

 Replication 



phage, 130 



virus, 123, 132 



Response, 175-177, 197 



behaviorally appropriate, 257 

 conditioned, 190, 211, 245, 248, 253, 



263, 317, 371 

 differentiated, 271 

 generalization of, 248, 258 

 graded, 235 

 labeled potentials, 245 



Reverberation, 37, 280, 282 



Ribonucleic acid (RNA) 



and information storage, 120 

 and memory, 244, 280 

 base sequence, 66, 73, 222 

 cellular concentration after stimula- 

 tion, 211, 221 

 general characteristics, 103 

 informational, see messenger 

 messenger, 64-67, 74, 76, 80, 98, 108- 



114, 124, 363 

 ribosomal, 64, 105, 124, 363 

 synthesis. 111, 121, 125, 368 

 total cellular, 105 

 transfer, 64-66, 72, 103, 112, 131 

 virus, 74, 103, 107, 114, 128, 132, 139 



Ribosomes, 64, 139 



Shannon's Theorem 10, 142, 144, 148 

 Signals, 11, 13, 23, 233, 283, 289, 290, 

 305, 310 



electroencephalographic, 330 



electrocardiographic, 343, 347 



meaningful, 237 



random, 18 



reconstituted, 335 



synchronous, 284 

 Signals-in-noise, 230, 232 

 Specificity 



genetic, 62 



protein, 59, 62, 68 

 Stimuli, 176, 238 



concurrent peripheral and central, 

 264 



conditioned, 211, 248, 252, 258, 264- 

 266, 271, 275 



flicker, 264 



peripheral, 252, 266, 269 



photic, 265, 269, 271, 275 



tracer, 245, 271 



