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After phrenology : neural reuse and the interactive brain /

"The computer analogy of the mind has been as widely adopted in contemporary cognitive neuroscience as was the analogy of the brain as a collection of organs in phrenology. Just as the phrenologist would insist that each organ must have its particular function, so contemporary cognitive neurosc...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Anderson, Michael L., 1968- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The MIT Press, [2014]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Brains
  • Neural reuse and the need for a new approach to understanding brain function
  • On the importance of neural teamwork
  • Interactive differentiation and the search for neural coalitions: neural reuse in the functional development of the brain
  • You are not your connectome! sorry, understanding the brain (or people) will not be that simple
  • Neural reuse in contemporary cognitive science
  • The dynamic brain: what your brain is doing when it's not doing anything
  • Do brain regions have personalities of their own? toward a dispositional neuroscience
  • The eyes have it: unraveling the brain by tugging on a retinal thread
  • Bodies
  • Brains and their bodies
  • Network thinking
  • Embodiment, computation, and control
  • Is our brain as good as it gets?
  • Beings
  • Languaging with an interactive brain
  • What mindedness is
  • A functionalist neuroscience for the twenty-first century.