Interdisciplinary Investigation of the Brain

This volume contains the Proceedings of a Conference on \Inter- disciplinary Investigation of the Brain\ held at Oxford 11-13th April 1972. The Congress was organised by the UK Liaison Committee for Sci- ences Allied to Medicine and Biology (SAMB). This organisation was set up in 1965 to promote the interdisciplinary approach to medical and biological problems. The present -Conference is the third to be held under the auspices of SAMB. It was planned to cover a wide range of interests by inviting workers from various disciplines to speak about their work in progress. It is hoped that the present volume will be of interest and will vindicate this multidisciplinary approach. SESSIONAL CHAIRMEN R. Cooper Burden Neurological Centre Stapleton Bristol England E. S. Watkins Department of Neurosurgery London Hospital Whitechapel London EI England W. A. Cobb National Hospital for Nervous Diseases Queens Square London WCI England J. P. M. Tizard Institute of Child Health Hammersmith Hospital London Wl2 England G. B. Arden Institute of Opthalmology London WCI England C. R. Evans Division of Computer Science National Physical Laboratory Teddington Middlesex England CONTRIBIITORS D. Albe-Fessard Laboratoire de Physiologie des Centres Nerveux Paris France J. Andrew Middlesex Hospital London WI England M. A. Armstrong James London Hospital Whitechapel London EI England B. G. Batchelor Electronics Department University of Southampton Southampton England C. D. Binnie Department of Clinical Neurophysiology St. Bartholomews Hospital London ECI England M. V. Driver Maudsley Hospital London SES England vii viii CONTRIBUTORS I. D.