Neuronal Networks Responsible for Genetic and Acquired (Ontogenetic) Memory: Probable Fundamental Differences

Abstract

Functional capabilities of the two types of neuronal networks in the human brain, namely those formed on the basis of exclusively genetic information and those formed with the use of the experience stored within the lifetime, have been compared. It is stated that modifications of behavior based on accumulation of biologically and/or socially expedient experience may be provided only by neuronal networks formed with the involvement of psychic (mental) phenomena.It is assumed that the process of using the experience accumulated within the ontogenetic development is accompanied by the formation of hierarchical functional relationships among neuronal networks of various cerebral structures. Within the framework of such hierarchical functional relations, synaptic connections, which perform functions well known from the neurophysiologic aspect, may also appear neuronal elements providing systemic effects on certain neuronal networks of other networks; these modulatory effects are realized with the involvement of mental phenomena, necessary for storing and using of the ontogenetic experience.