| Description |
1 online resource (xxiv, 385 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Contents |
Brains -- Neural reuse and the need for a new approach to understanding brain function -- On the importance of neural teamwork -- Interactive differentiation and the search for neural coalitions: neural reuse in the functional development of the brain -- You are not your connectome! sorry, understanding the brain (or people) will not be that simple -- Neural reuse in contemporary cognitive science -- The dynamic brain: what your brain is doing when it's not doing anything -- Do brain regions have personalities of their own? toward a dispositional neuroscience -- The eyes have it: unraveling the brain by tugging on a retinal thread -- Bodies -- Brains and their bodies -- Network thinking -- Embodiment, computation, and control -- Is our brain as good as it gets? -- Beings -- Languaging with an interactive brain -- What mindedness is -- A functionalist neuroscience for the twenty-first century |
| Summary |
"The computer analogy of the mind has been as widely adopted in contemporary cognitive neuroscience as was the analogy of the brain as a collection of organs in phrenology. Just as the phrenologist would insist that each organ must have its particular function, so contemporary cognitive neuroscience is committed to the notion that each brain region must have its fundamental computation. In After Phrenology, Michael Anderson argues that to achieve a fully post-phrenological science of the brain, we need to reassess this commitment and devise an alternate, neuroscientifically grounded taxonomy of mental function. Anderson contends that the cognitive roles played by each region of the brain are highly various, reflecting different neural partnerships established under different circumstances. He proposes quantifying the functional properties of neural assemblies in terms of their dispositional tendencies rather than their computational or information-processing operations. Exploring larger-scale issues, and drawing on evidence from embodied cognition, Anderson develops a picture of thinking rooted in the exploitation and extension of our early-evolving capacity for iterated interaction with the world. He argues that the multidimensional approach to the brain he describes offers a much better fit for these findings, and a more promising road toward a unified science of minded organisms"--MIT CogNet |
| Analysis |
COGNITIVE SCIENCES/General |
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COGNITIVE SCIENCES/Psychology/Cognitive Psychology |
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NEUROSCIENCE/General |
| Notes |
"A Bradford book." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Brain -- Physiology
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Brain -- physiology
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Neuropsychology -- methods
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Cognition -- physiology
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MEDICAL -- Physiology.
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Human Anatomy & Physiology.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Cognitive Psychology.
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Brain -- Physiology
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Cognition & cognitive psychology.
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Neurosciences.
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Physiological & neuro-psychology, biopsychology.
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Psychology: states of consciousness.
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Psychology.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780262320672 |
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0262320673 |
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0262321157 |
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9780262321150 |
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