Contents:

• Introduction: The Cortico-Limbic System of Higher Vertebrates (A Neugebauer)
• Opening Lecture:
• Hippocampal Cellular Correlates to Spatial Learning (P Andersen)
• Brain Reverberating Systems and Associative Phenomena:
• Where in the Cortex Does Cognition Take Place? (P Calabrese et al.)
• Does a Hierarchical Timing Mechanism Exist in the Olfactory System? (T Radil et al.)
• Long Term Potentiation — Learning and Memory:
• Long-Term Potentiation: A Synaptic Model for Learning and Memory (K P S J Murphy et al.)
• Nitric Oxide, Synaptic Plasticity and Memory Formation in the Brain (G A Böhme)
• Gene Activity and Brain Activity:
• The Role of Immediate Early Genes in Long-Term Potentiation, Learning and Memory (K L Thomas & S P Hunt)
• Towards Understanding a Role of Transcription Factors in Learning Processes (L Kaczmarek)
• Gene Expression and Information Processing During Sleep:
• The Expression of Immediate Early Genes in the Brain During Sleep and Wake (M Bentivoglio & G Grassi-Zucconi)
• Paradoxical Sleep as an Iterative Genetic Programming Mechanism (M Jouvet)
• Closing Lecture:
• Four Levels of Brain Research — An Introduction (H Stieve)
• Abstracts:
• Genetic Test of the Effects of PKA Knockout on Mossy Fiber LTP and Spatial and Contextual Learning (R Bourtchouladze et al.)
• The Power and the Limits of Neurogenetics (Y Dudai)
• and other papers