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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464404103321

Autore

Maldonato Mauro

Titolo

The predictive brain : consciousness, decision and embodied action / / Mauro Maldonato

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Eastbourne, England : , : Sussex Academic Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-78284-138-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (113 p.)

Disciplina

612.8/23

Soggetti

Decision making - Psychological aspects

Cognitive neuroscience

Brain

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; 1 At the Origin of the Experience of the Self; 2 The Roots of Conscious Awareness; 3 Consciousness: A Multilevel Framework; 4 Between Conscious Global Workspace and Unconscious Levels; 5 Does a Hierarchy of Nervous Functions Exist?; 6 Movement's Architectures; 7 The Origin of Movements; 8 Ecological Rationality: Intuition, Decision and Other Evolution Strategies; Index; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

An investigation of the working of the human mind, this book sets out to show that the brain is not only a reactive mechanism, but rather proactive, allowing people to make hypotheses, anticipate consequences, and formulate expectations. The book discusses how the evolution of motor modes of behavior, such as the ability to construct and manipulate instruments, has given rise to an "embodied logic" underpinning not only action and prediction but also gestures and syllable sequences that are the basis of human communication. This book then looks