Brains top down : is top-down causation challenging neuroscience?

Brains top down : is top-down causation challenging neuroscience? / [edited by] Gennaro Auletta, Ivan Colagè, Marc Jeannerod.

This book presents an overview of some of the main schools of thought as well as current research trends in neuroscience. It focuses on neural top-down causation applied to hot topics like consciousness, emotions, the self and the will, action and behavior, neural networks, brains and society.

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Other Authors: Auletta, Gennaro, 1957-, Colagè, Ivan (Editor), Jeannerod, Marc (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Jersey : World Scientific, 2013.
Subjects:
Neurosciences.
MEDICAL > Neuroscience.
PSYCHOLOGY > Neuropsychology.
Neurociencias
Neurosciences
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : consciousness as a top-down causal agency / G. Auletta and M. Jeannerod
  • A constraining role of the mind? / G. Auletta
  • Neurons, schemas, persons, and society revisited / M.A. Arbib
  • The neural basis of consciousness and the issue of downward causation / notes by G. Auletta and I. Colagè on Damasio's contribution
  • The functional role of conscious will in voluntary action : cause or consequence? : a position paper / M. Jeannerod
  • Can the self be considered a cause? / J.J. Sanguineti
  • The brain : a highly distributed self-organizing system : who has the initiative? / W. Singer
  • Two views of brain functioning / M. Raichle
  • Top-down causation in the brain : promises for cognitive psychology and challenges for research / C.R. Crowell [and others]
  • Consciousness and the global neuronal workspace hypothesis : from bottom-up to top-down causation and vice versa / G. Auletta and I. Colagè
  • Computation, representation, and physicalism / P. Jacob
  • Overall discussion
  • Postface : M. Jeannerod (1935- 2011) : a personal note / G. Rizzolatti.

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