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Plato's Camera : How the Physical Brain Captures a Landscape of Abstract Universals /
A noted philosopher draws on the empirical results and conceptual resources of cognitive neuroscience to address questions about the nature of knowledge. In Plato's Camera, eminent philosopher Paul Churchland offers a novel account of how the brain constructs a representation--or "takes a...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
[2012]
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- First-level learning, Part 1: Structural changes in the brain and the development of lasting conceptual frameworks
- First-level learning, Part 2: On the evaluation of maps and their generation by Hebbian learning
- Second-level learning: Dynamical changes in the brain and domain-shifted redeployment of existing concepts
- Third-level learning: The regulation and amplification of first- and second-level learning through a growing network of cultural institutions.