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Models of brain and mind : physical, computational and psychological approaches /

The phenomenon of consciousness has always been a central question for philosophers and scientists. Emerging in the past decade are new approaches to the understanding of consciousness in a scientific light. This book presents a series of essays by leading thinkers giving an account of the current i...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (Kolkata, India) (organizer of meeting,, sponsoring body.)
Otros Autores: Banerjee, Rahul (Editor ), Chakrabarti, B. K. (Bikas K.), 1952- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier, 2008.
Edición:1st edition.
Colección:Progress in brain research ; v. 168.
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  • How to separate conceptual issues from empirical ones in the study of consciousness / M. Velmans
  • The disunity of consciousness / S. Zeki
  • Consciousness: the radical plasticity thesis / A Cleeremans
  • A higher order Bayesian decision theory of consciousness / H.C. Lau
  • Subjective measures of unconscious knowledge / Z. Dienes
  • Interdependence of attention and consciousness / N. Srinivasan
  • Computational studies of consciousness / I. Aleksander, H. Morton
  • Identification of neuroanatomical substrates of set-shifting ability: evidence from patients with focal brain lesions / P. Mukhopadhyay [and others]
  • Thinking is believing / R. Kasturirangan
  • The emergence of mind and brain: an evolutionary, computational, and philosophical approach / K. Mainzer
  • Dynamic geometry, brain function modeling, and consciousness / S. Roy, R. Llin�as
  • Understanding the mind of a worm: hierarchial network structure underlying nervous system function in C. elegans / N. Chatterjee, S. Sinha
  • Neural network modeling / B.K. Chakrabarti, A. Basu
  • Retinomorphic image processing / K. Ghosh, K. Bhaumik, S. Sarker
  • Modeling the sub-cellular signaling pathways involved in reinforcement learning at the striatum / S.M. Wanjerkhede, R.S. Bapi
  • Rythmic structure of Hindi and English: new insights from a computational analysis / T. Das, L. Singh, N.C. Singh
  • Empirical perspectives from the self-model theory of subjectivity: a brief summary with examples / T. Metzinger
  • Vipassana: the Buddha's tool to probe mind and body / D.V. Chavan
  • Buddha and the bridging relations / R. Banerjee.