Fifth Ernst Strüngmann Forum held Aug. 16-21, 2009, Frankfurt am Main.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Dynamic coordination in brain and mind / William A. Phillips, Christoph von der Malsburg, and Wolf Singer -- Cortical circuits : consistency and variability across cortical areas and species / Jon H. Kaas -- Sequence coding and learning / Gilles Laurent -- What can studies of comparative cognition teach us about the evolution of dynamic coordination? / Uri Grodzinski and Nicola S. Clayton -- Evolution of dynamic coordination / Evan Balaban ... [et al.] -- Modeling coordination in the neocortex at the microcircuit and global network level / Anders Lansner and Mikael Lundqvist -- Oscillation-supported information processing and transfer at the hippocampus-entorhinal-neocortical interface / György Buzsáki and Kamran Diba -- What are the local circuit design features concerned with coordinating rhythms? / Miles A. Whittington, Nancy J. Kopell, and Roger D. Traub -- Coordination in circuits / Mayank Mehta ... [et al.] --

Coordination : what it is and why we need it / Christoph von der Malsburg -- Neocortical rhythms : an overview / Wolf Singer -- Stimulus-driven coordination of cortical cell assemblies and propagation of Gestalt belief in V1 / Yves Frégnac ... [et al.] -- Coordination in brain systems / Edvard I. Moser ... [et al.] -- "Hot spots" and dynamic coordination in Gestalt perception / Ilona Kovács -- Coordination in sensory integration / Jochen Triesch, Constantin Rothkopf, and Thomas Weisswange -- Neural coordination and human cognition / Catherine Tallon-Baudry -- Failures of dynamic coordination in disease states and their implications for normal brain function / Steven M. Silverstein -- Coordination in behavior and cognition / Andreas K. Engel ... [et al.].