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Record Nr.

UNINA9910962166703321

Autore

Fuster Joaquin M.

Titolo

Cortex and mind : unifying cognition / / Joaquin M. Fuster

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2005

ISBN

0-19-029377-2

0-19-973105-5

1-280-84630-5

0-19-530084-X

9786610846306

Edizione

[Paperback ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvi, 294 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

612.8

612.825

Soggetti

Cognition

Cerebral cortex

Cerebral Cortex

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-284) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; 1 Introduction; The Problem; Cognitive Networks: Theory; Cognitive Networks: Neuroscience; The Cognit; 2 Neurobiology of Cortical Networks; Phylogeny of the Cortex; Ontogeny of the Cortex; Cognitive Network Formation; Extracortical Factors; Basic Structure of Cognitive Networks; 3 Functional Architecture of the Cognit; Structure of Knowledge in Connectionist Models; Categories of Knowledge; Cortical Modularity; Cortical Hierarchy of Perceptual Networks; Cortical Hierarchy of Executive Networks; Heterarchical Representation in Association Cortex; 4 Perception

Perceptual CategorizationGestalt; Cortical Dynamics of Perception; Perceptual Binding; Perception-Action Cycle; 5 Memory; Formation of Memory; Short-Term Memory; Perceptual Memory; Executive Memory; Retrieval of Memory; 6 Attention; Biological Roots of Attention; Perceptual Attention; Working Memory; Executive Attention; Set and Expectancy; Execution and Monitoring; 7 Language; Neurobiology of Language; Hemispheric Lateralization; Neuropsychology of Language; Functional Architecture of Semantics; Cortical Dynamics of Syntax; 8



Intelligence; Development of Intelligence; Anatomy of Intelligence

ReasoningProblem Solving; Decision Making; Creative Intelligence; 9 Epilogue on Consciousness; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W

Sommario/riassunto

This text presents a synthesis of the neuroscience of cognition. The guiding principle to this synthesis is the tenet that the entirety of our knowledge is encoded by relations, and thus by connections, in neuronal networks of our cerebral cortex.