[Spatial-temporal synchronization of cerebral biopotentials and the problem of the brain's activity as a whole]

The author compares the results of his own investigations into the influence of instantaneous and multiple reversible (cold) inactivation of the neocortex on the manifestation and elaboration of conditioned reflexes in cats with dynamic characteristics of spatial-temporal synchronization of biopotentials in the cortex and subcortical formations at different stages of formation and manifestation of the conditioned reflex in animals, and in different functional states (emotions and mental stress) in humans, as presented in the studies by M.N. Livanov and coworkers. It has been stressed that different experimental approaches reveal the one principle of brain functioning, its integral involvement in any purposeful activity.