Brains top down: is top-down causation challenging neuroscience?
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New Jersey World Scientific 2013
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction : consciousness as a top-down causal agency / G. Auletta and M. Jeannerod -- A constraining role of the mind? / G. Auletta -- Neurons, schemas, persons, and society revisited / M.A. Arbib -- The neural basis of consciousness and the issue of downward causation / notes by G. Auletta and I. Colagè on Damasio's contribution -- The functional role of conscious will in voluntary action : cause or consequence? : a position paper / M. Jeannerod -- Can the self be considered a cause? / J.J. Sanguineti -- The brain : a highly distributed self-organizing system : who has the initiative? / W. Singer -- Two views of brain functioning / M. Raichle -- Top-down causation in the brain : promises for cognitive psychology and challenges for research / C.R. Crowell [and others] -- Consciousness and the global neuronal workspace hypothesis : from bottom-up to top-down causation and vice versa / G. Auletta and I. Colagè -- Computation, representation, and physicalism / P. Jacob -- Overall discussion -- Postface : M. Jeannerod (1935- 2011) : a personal note / G. Rizzolatti
This book presents an overview of some of the main schools of thought as well as current research trends in neuroscience. It focuses on neural top-down causation applied to hot topics like consciousness, emotions, the self and the will, action and behavior, neural networks, brains and society
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (x, 365 pages)
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