Neurocognitive mechanisms : explaining biological cognition / Gualtiero Piccinini.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Piccinini, Gualtiero, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Neurobiology.

Cognition.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 400 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Explaining biological cognition

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2020]

Summary:

Gualtiero Piccinini presents a systematic and rigorous philosophical defence of the computational theory of cognition. His view posits that cognition involves neural computation within multilevel neurocognitive mechanisms, and includes novel ideas about ontology, functions, neural representation, neural computation, and consciousness.

Contents:

1. Levels of Being

2. Mechanisms, Multiple Readability, and Medium Independence

3. Functional Mechanisms

4. Mechanistic Functionalism

5. First Computational Theory of Cognition: McCulloch and Pitts's "A Logical Calculus of the Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity"

6. Computation and Information Processing

7. Mechanistic Models of Cognition: From Autonomy to Integration

8. Cognitive Neuroscience Revolution

9. Computational Theory of Cognition

10. Church

Turing Fallacy

11. Resilience of the Computational Theory of Cognition

12. Neural Representation

13. Neural Computation

14. Computation and the Function of Consciousness.

Notes:

This edition also issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-190392-2

0-19-263604-9

0-19-263605-7