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 Info | New Jersey : World Scientific, |
| Description | x, 365 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| 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 note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2013007836 |
| ISBN | 9789814412452 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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