Format:
Online-Ressource (IX, 176 p)
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online resource
Edition:
Springer eBook Collection. Biomedical and Life Sciences
ISBN:
9781475737790
Content:
Much of contemporary behavioral or cognitive neuroscience is concerned with discovering the neural basis of psychological processes such as attention, cognition, consciousness, perception, and memory. In sharp divergence from this field, An Odyssey Through the Brain, Behavior and the Mind can be regarded as an elaborate demonstration that the large scale features of brain electrical activity are related to sensory and motor processes in various ways but are not organised in accordance with conventional psychological concepts. It is argued that much of the traditional lore concerning the mind is based on prescientific philosophical assumptions and has little relevance to brain function. The first ten chapters of An Odyssey Through the Brain, Behavior and the Mind give a personal account of how the various discoveries that gave rise to these views came to be made. This is followed by discussions of brain organization in relation to behavior, learning and memory, sleep and consciousness, and the general problem of the mind
Note:
1 A Preparation and a Beginning2 Hippocampal Activity and Behavior -- 3 Hippocampal Slow Waves, Learning, and Instinctive Behavior -- 4 Two Afferent Systems Control the Activation of the Neocortex and Hippocampus -- 5 The Anatomical and Neurochemical Basis of Atropine-Resistant Neocortical Activation1 -- 6 The Anatomical and Neurochemical Basis of Atropine-Resistant Hippocampal Rhythmical Slow Activity -- 7 Ascending Cholinergic Control of the Neocortex and Hippocampus -- 8 What is the Function of Cerebral Cortical Activation? -- 9 Whatever Became of the Ascending Reticular Activating System? -- 10 Olfactory Reactions in the Dentate Gyrus and Pyriform Cortex -- 11 The Mind and Behavioral Neuroscience -- 12 Epilogue.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781441953353
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781441953353
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781402073458
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781475737806
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1007/978-1-4757-3779-0
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