Abstract
Psychophysiology may be defined as the science of the neuronal mechanisms of mental processes and states. A psycho-physiological investigation begins with an analysis of the psychophysical characteristics of a particular function in man. Then, in experiments on animals, the neuronal mechanisms responsible for this function are studied. The results of psychophysical and neurophysiological investigations are combined to build a model from neuronlike elements. The model has to meet rigorous requirements: the model as a whole must reproduce the particular function at the psychophysical level, and each neuronlike element of the model must reproduce the characteristics of a real neuron involved in the particular function. The model is used to predict the course of experiments on real objects by carrying out on the model analogs of psychophysical and neuronal experiments. During the course of this comparison of experiments on a model and on real natural objects, the original model is made more precise, and probl...
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