Edited by Lynn Nadel and Daniel L. Stein

Preface
Lynn Nadel and Daniel L. Stein

Lectures and Seminars

Neural Network Models for Pattern Recognition and Associative Memory
Gail A. Carpenter

Impulse Activity and the Pattern of Connections During CNS Development
Carla J. Shatz

In Search of a Unified Theory of Biological Organization: What Does the Motor System of a Sea Slug Tell Us about Human Motor Integration?
George J. Mpitsos and Seppo Soinila

Mapping from Speech Acoustics to Tongue Dorsum Movement: An Application of a Multilayer Perceptron
Timothy R. Thomas, George J. Papcun, and Barry N. Guinn

Pattern Formation in Biological Systems
H. F. Nijhout

Artificial Life
Christopher G. Langton

Order Parameters, Broken Symmetry, and Topology
James P. Sethna

Meissner Effects and Constraints
James P. Sethna

Fractal Time Dynamics: From Glasses to Turbulence
Michael F. Shlesinger

Dynamics of Web Maps: Parameter Dependence of Stochastic Layers
J. H. Lowenstein

Non-Local Cellular Automata
Wentian Li

Student Contributions

Reality Kisses the Neck of Speculation: A Report From the NKC Workgroup
Jeremy John Ahouse, Erhard Bruderer, Angelica Gelovar-Santiago, Norio Konno, David Lazer, and Stella Veretnik

Complex Patterns, Simply Recognized
Paddy Andrews

Dynamical Behavior of a Pair of Spatially Homogeneous Neural Fields
Antonio C. Roque Da Silva Filho

A Cellular Automaton to Embed Genetic Search
Pedro Paulo Balbi de Oliveria

Some Mathematical Results on the NK Model
Nario Konno

Complex Dynamics of Flagella
Masatoshi Murase

Cellular Automata with Non-Uniform Rules: An Illustration of Kauffman's Boolean Network Theory
Jan D. van der Laan and Maarten C. Boerlijst

Random Boolean Networks: Comparison Between Randomly Connected and Lattice-Connected Networks
Stella Veretnik

The Production of Solitons by Optimal Driving Forces
Jin Wang, Thomas Meyer, and Alfred Huebler

Index