Conversations about Neuroscience

Conversations About Neuroscience is a five-part Ideas Roadshow Collection of carefully-edited Ideas Roadshow Conversations featuring 5 leading neuroscientists with a detailed preface highlighting the connections between the different books. All five books include a detailed essay setting up the diff...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Burton, Howard
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : Open Agenda Publishing, 2020.
Colección:Ideas Roadshow Collections.
Temas:
Neurosciences.
Brain.
Visual perception.
Human-machine systems.
Neurosciences
Brain
Visual Perception
Man-Machine Systems
Cerveau.
Perception visuelle.
Systèmes homme-machine.
brains.
visual perception.
Human-machine systems
Visual perception
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Textual Note
  • Preface
  • Constructing Our World
  • The Brain's-Eye View
  • A conversation with Lisa Feldman Barrett
  • Introduction
  • I. Beginnings
  • II. Confronting Variability
  • III. Convergent Pathways
  • IV. Networks
  • V. Slow Progress
  • VI. Towards Genuine Dialogue
  • VII. Final Thoughts
  • Continuing the Conversation
  • Knowing One's Place
  • Space and the Brain
  • A conversation with Jennifer Groh
  • Introduction
  • I. From Ticks to Brains
  • II. Historical Background
  • III. Frames of Reference
  • IV. Mysterious Overlap
  • V. Smell
  • VI. Brain Maps
  • VII. Ice Cream Cones and Multiplexing
  • VIII. Navigating Rats
  • IX. Neuroplasticity
  • X. Evolutionary Mechanisms?
  • XI. The Road Ahead
  • Continuing the Conversation
  • Vision and Perception
  • A conversation with Kalanit Grill-Spector
  • Introduction
  • I. Neuroimaging
  • II. Discovering Her Passion
  • III. Vision Unveiled
  • IV Experimental Evidence
  • V. A Startling Result
  • VI. Neuroplasticity
  • VII. The Road Ahead
  • Investigating Intelligence
  • A conversation with John Duncan
  • Introduction
  • I. Searching For A Definition
  • II. Trusting Your Gut
  • III. Paradigmatic Examples
  • IV. Different Types of Knowledge
  • V. Another Correlation
  • VI. Selecting Solutions
  • VII. Looking Inside
  • VIII. Implications
  • IX. Assessing the Landscape
  • X. Pure and Applied
  • Continuing the Conversation
  • Minds and Machines
  • A conversation with Miguel Nicolelis
  • Introduction
  • I. Revolutionary Rumblings
  • II. Plowing Ahead
  • III. Interface
  • IV. Against Reductionism
  • V. Incarnating Our Surroundings
  • VI. Imposing Representations
  • VII. Distributed vs. Local
  • VIII. Technological Applications
  • IX. Getting Metaphysical
  • X. Final Questions

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