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The brain's representational power : on consciousness and the integration of modalities /

Although science has made considerable progress in discovering the neural basis of cognition, how consciousness arises remains elusive. In this book, Pennartz analyzes which aspects of conscious experience can be peeled away to access its core: the relationship between brain processes and the qualit...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pennartz, Cyriel M. A., 1963- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The MIT Press, [2015]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Building representations with neurons and spikes
  • Peeling off our conscious lives
  • What neural network models can and cannot explain about cognition
  • Networks and the problem of panpsychism
  • Structure and function of brain systems for conscious and non-conscious representation
  • Same brain, different states : waking, sleeping and anesthesia
  • Requirements for conscious representations
  • Neural mechanisms for conscious representations
  • Levels of representational organization
  • Philosophical and future perspectives.