Brains top down : is top-down causation challenging neuroscience? /

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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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Auletta, Gennaro, 1957-, Colagè, Ivan (Editor ), Jeannerod, Marc (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Jersey : World Scientific, 2013.
Temas:
Neurosciences.
Brain > physiology
Consciousness > physiology
Neurosciences
MEDICAL > Neuroscience.
PSYCHOLOGY > Neuropsychology.
Neurociencias
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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