Conversations about Neuroscience.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burton, Howard.

Series:

Ideas Roadshow Collections

Ideas Roadshow Collections ; v.5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Brain.

Neurosciences.

Visual perception.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (243 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Toronto : Open Agenda Publishing, 2020.

Summary:

Conversations About Neuroscience is a five-part Ideas Roadshow Collection of carefully-edited Ideas Roadshow Conversations featuring 5 leading neuroscientists with a detailed preface highlighting the connections between the different books. All five books include a detailed essay setting up the different ideas and questions for discussion at the end of each chapter. The following experts have participated in this Collection:1. Lisa Feldman Barrett, University Distinguished Professor in Psychology at Northeastern University;2. Jennifer Groh, Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University;3. Kalanit Grill-Spector, Professor in Psychology and the Stanford Neurosciences Institute at Stanford University;4. John Duncan, Professor in Neuroscience, University of Cambridge;5. Miguel Nicolelis, Professor of Neurobiology, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Biomedical Engineering, Psychology and Neuroscience and Orthopaedic Surgery and Co-Director of the Center for Neuroengineering at Duke University.Howard Burton is the creator and host of Ideas Roadshow and was the Founding Executive Director of Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. He holds a PhD in theoretical physics and an MA in philosophy.

Contents:

Intro

Textual Note

Preface

Constructing Our World

The Brain's-Eye View

A conversation with Lisa Feldman Barrett

Introduction

I. Beginnings

II. Confronting Variability

III. Convergent Pathways

IV. Networks

V. Slow Progress

VI. Towards Genuine Dialogue

VII. Final Thoughts

Continuing the Conversation

Knowing One's Place

Space and the Brain

A conversation with Jennifer Groh

I. From Ticks to Brains

II. Historical Background

III. Frames of Reference

IV. Mysterious Overlap

V. Smell

VI. Brain Maps

VII. Ice Cream Cones and Multiplexing

VIII. Navigating Rats

IX. Neuroplasticity

X. Evolutionary Mechanisms?

XI. The Road Ahead

Vision and Perception

A conversation with Kalanit Grill-Spector

I. Neuroimaging

II. Discovering Her Passion

III. Vision Unveiled

IV Experimental Evidence

V. A Startling Result

VI. Neuroplasticity

VII. The Road Ahead

Investigating Intelligence

A conversation with John Duncan

I. Searching For A Definition

II. Trusting Your Gut

III. Paradigmatic Examples

IV. Different Types of Knowledge

V. Another Correlation

VI. Selecting Solutions

VII. Looking Inside

VIII. Implications

IX. Assessing the Landscape

X. Pure and Applied

Minds and Machines

A conversation with Miguel Nicolelis

I. Revolutionary Rumblings

II. Plowing Ahead

III. Interface

IV. Against Reductionism

V. Incarnating Our Surroundings

VI. Imposing Representations

VII. Distributed vs. Local

VIII. Technological Applications

IX. Getting Metaphysical

X. Final Questions

Continuing the Conversation.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781771701808

1771701803

9781771701068

1771701064

OCLC:

1255222398