The BrainRoutledge, 2017 M11 30 - 291 páginas One of the vastly exciting areas in modern science involves the study of the brain. Recent research focuses not only on how the brain works but how it is related to what we normally call the mind, and throws new light on human behavior. Progress has been made in researching all that relates to interior man, why he thinks and feels as he does, what values he chooses to adopt, and what practices to scorn. All of these attributes make us human and help to explain art, philosophy, and religions. Motion, sight, and memory, as well as emotions and the sentiments common to humans, are all given new meaning by what we have learned about the brain. In an introductory essay, Vernon B. Mountcastle traces the progress made in brain science during this century. Gerald M. Edelman touches upon features of the brain that challenge the picture of the brain as a machine. Semir Zeki discusses artists and artistic expression as an extension of the function of the brain. Richard S. J. Frackowiak probes the functional architecture of the brain. Mark F. Bear and Leon N Cooper explore whether complex neural systems can be illuminated by theoretical structures. Jean-Pierre Changeux sheds light on the knowledge gained in recent years concerning the neurobiology and pharmacology of drug action and addiction. Alexander A. Borbuly and Giulio Tononi ponder the quest for the essence of sleep, illuminating its complex dynamic process. George L. Gabor Miklos examines variations in neuroanatomies and sensory systems between individuals of the same species as well as variations across the evolutionary spectrum. Emilio Bizzi and Ferdinando A. Mussa-Ivaldi explain how scientists have approached the study of movement, the problems encountered, and the solutions proposed. Marcel Kinsbourne explores the unity and diversity in the human brain. In the concluding essay, Andy Clark points to recent work in neuroscience, robotics, and psychology that stresses the unexpected intimacy of brain, body, and world, supporting his belief that the mind is best understood as a brain at home in its proper bodily cultural and environmental niche. The breadth and scope of subjects covered in this volume attest to the extraordinary progress taking place in the study of the brain. This brilliant collection of essays by those at the forefront of research in this area will be of interest to all those interested in human behavior. Gerald M. Edelman is director of the Neurosciences Institute and chairman of the Department of Neurobiology at the Scripps Research Institute. Jean-Pierre Changeux is professor at the Collbge de France and the Institute Pasteur. |
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... areas of the cerebral cortex in topographical mapping of the relevant sheets of sensory receptors, and thus of the portion of the sensory world each subtends. These are called representations, a word used in neuroscience to.
... representations of sensory and motor events in an accurate topology, in the midst of ever- changing and slightly shifting population actions. They maintain the near-neighbor relations that persist through the spread of activity in ...
... developed in its modern form in the last half-century. Its central theme is the concept of mental representations, and the dominant model, the electronic computer. This enterprise has been successful in generating computational analyses.
... representations, according to rules; and formal computation. The sym- bol/rule approach led to the proposition called “multiple realizations,” which holds that a given cognitive operation could be executed by any of a variety of ...
... representations of external objects and events are constructions, not replications. These principles will be expanded upon in one form or another by the articles that follow. Acknowledgments. I am grateful to Dr. Mark Bear for preparing ...