Cortex and mind : unifying cognition / Joaquin M. Fuster.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fuster, Joaquin M., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cognition.

Cerebral cortex.

Cerebral Cortex.

Medical Subjects:

Cognition.

Cerebral Cortex.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 294 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

Paperback ed.

Other Title:

Unifying cognition

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This text presents a synthesis of the neuroscience of cognition. The guiding principle to this synthesis is the tenet that the entirety of our knowledge is encoded by relations, and thus by connections, in neuronal networks of our cerebral cortex.

Contents:

Contents; 1 Introduction; The Problem; Cognitive Networks: Theory; Cognitive Networks: Neuroscience; The Cognit; 2 Neurobiology of Cortical Networks; Phylogeny of the Cortex; Ontogeny of the Cortex; Cognitive Network Formation; Extracortical Factors; Basic Structure of Cognitive Networks; 3 Functional Architecture of the Cognit; Structure of Knowledge in Connectionist Models; Categories of Knowledge; Cortical Modularity; Cortical Hierarchy of Perceptual Networks; Cortical Hierarchy of Executive Networks; Heterarchical Representation in Association Cortex; 4 Perception

Perceptual CategorizationGestalt; Cortical Dynamics of Perception; Perceptual Binding; Perception-Action Cycle; 5 Memory; Formation of Memory; Short-Term Memory; Perceptual Memory; Executive Memory; Retrieval of Memory; 6 Attention; Biological Roots of Attention; Perceptual Attention; Working Memory; Executive Attention; Set and Expectancy; Execution and Monitoring; 7 Language; Neurobiology of Language; Hemispheric Lateralization; Neuropsychology of Language; Functional Architecture of Semantics; Cortical Dynamics of Syntax; 8 Intelligence; Development of Intelligence; Anatomy of Intelligence

ReasoningProblem Solving; Decision Making; Creative Intelligence; 9 Epilogue on Consciousness; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-284) and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-029377-2

0-19-973105-5

1-280-84630-5

0-19-530084-X

9786610846306

OCLC:

609831471