Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Table of Contents - 2008 - Volume 31, Issue 03  

Open Peer Commentary

The concept of coregulation between neurobehavioral subsystems: The logic interplay between excitatory and inhibitory ends

Sari Goldstein Ferbera1

a1 Department of Neonatology, Wolfson Medical Center, Sackler School of Medicine, and the Department of Neurobiochemistry, Tel Aviv University, 69978 Tel Aviv, Israel. ferbers@post.tau.ac.il

Abstract

Neuroconstructivism, Vol. 1: How the Brain Constructs Cognition implies that brain functioning depends on biofeedback and ecological trajectories. Using the building blocks of Boolean algebra known as logic gates and models of distributed control systems, I suggest that levels of regulatory states are responsible for optimal, pathological, and developmental processes. I include the impact of regulatory and nonregulatory functions on structural development.