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

Other author Auletta, Gennaro, 1957-
Other author Colagè, Ivan.
Other author Jeannerod, Marc.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew Jersey : World Scientific,
Descriptionx, 365 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
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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 ... [et al.] -- 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2013007836
ISBN9789814412452 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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