Computational Theories and their Implementation in the Brain: The legacy of David Marr 1st Edition Lucia M. Vaina

1 Marr’s views on the functions of the cerebellum, hippocampus, and neocortex

Section 1 A theory of cerebellar cortex

2 Development from Marr’s theory of the cerebellum

3 Challenging Marr’s theory of the cerebellum

4 The importance of Marr’s three levels of analysis for understanding cerebellar function

Section 2 Simple memory: A theory for archicortex

5 The dentate gyrus: defining a new memory of David Marr

6 Marr’s influence on the standard model of hippocampus, and the need for more theoretical advances

7 Marr’s theory of the hippocampus as a simple memory: Decades of subsequent research suggest it is not that simple

Section 3 A theory of neocortex

8 Visions of the neocortex

9 Unsupervised yearning: Marr’s theory of the neocortex

Postlude

10 David Marr, 1945–1980