Learning as self-organization / edited by Karl H. Pribram and Joseph King.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pribram, Karl H., 1919-2015.

King, Joseph, 1949-

Series:

INNS Series of Texts, Monographs, and Proceedings Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Learning, Psychology of.

Self-organizing systems.

Behaviorism (Psychology).

Neuropsychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (617 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 1996.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

A year before his death, B.F. Skinner wrote that ""There are two unavoidable gaps in any behavioral account: one between the stimulating action of the environment and the response of the organism and one between consequences and the resulting change in behavior. Only brain science can fill those gaps. In doing so, it completes the account; it does not give a different account of the same thing."" This declaration ended the epoch of radical behaviorism to the extent that it was based on the doctrine of the ""empty organism,"" the doctrine that a behavioral science must be constructed purely on

Contents:

Cover; Learning as Self-Organization; Copyright; TABLE OF CONTENTS; Foreword: Learning as Self-Organization; Keynote; Innate Bases of Learning; The Behavioral Level: Learning; Respondents, Operants, and Emergents: Toward an Integrated Perspective on Behavior; Analysis of Behavioral Selection by Consequences and Its Potential Contributions to Understanding Brain-Behavior Relations; MECHANICS OF THE ANIMATE; The Response Dimension; Nonlinear phenomena in Learning Processes; The Attractor of the Intentional Learning System; The Network Level: Self-Organization

The Three Languages of the Brain: Quantum, Reorganizational, and AssociativeAutomatic Formation of Wavelet- and Gabor-Type Filters in an Adaptive-Subspace SOM; Democratic Reinforcement: Learning via Self-Organization; Biological Plausibility of Synaptic Associative Memory Models; Learning in the Brain: An Engineering Interpretation; The Neural Systems Level: Process; Morphogenesis and Mental Process; Topographically Different Regional Networks Impose Structural Limitations on Both Sexes in Early Postnatal Development

Brain regions associated with retrieval of structurally coherent visual informationConscious recollection and the human hippocampal formation: Evidence from positron emission tomography; An Exploration of the Neural Bases of Memory Representations of Reward and Context; Emotion and the Self-Organization of Semantic Memory; The Social Level: The Organization of Self in Society; Learning and Unlearning in the Formation of Social Bonds; Language as an Instrument for Self Reorganization: A New and Unique System; Self-Organization and the Social Collective

The Transcendental Level: Self Organization on a Grand ScaleReflections In Clouded Mirrors: Selfhood In Animals and Machines; Chance, Choice, and Consciousness A Causal Quantum Theory of the Mind/Brain; Mind and Matter: Aspects of the Implicate Order Described Through Algebra; Appalachian IV: Afterword

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-134-99708-6

1-138-41181-7

0-203-76374-2

1-134-99701-9

9780203763742

OCLC:

852757865