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UNINA9910157437903321 |
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Autore |
Tauber Alfred I. |
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Immunity : the evolution of an idea / / Alfred I. Tauber |
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New York, NY : , : Oxford University Press, , 2017 |
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0-19-065126-1 |
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0-19-065125-3 |
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1 online resource (329 pages) |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Previously issued in print: 2017. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Cover; Immunity; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. A History of the Immune Self; 2. Whither Immune Identity?; 3. Individuality Revised; 4. Immune Cognition; 5. Eco-immunology; 6. A New Biology?; Epilogue; Notes; References; Index |
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Immunology is the science of biological identity. Three key characteristics—individuality, identification, and immunity—together define immune identity, and as one notion changes meaning, so do the others. The story of this mutual dependence begins with the discovery of infectious diseases, when immunity, conceived as the response to invading pathogens, focused on the infected patient—later formalized as the “immune self.” That orientation, signifying autonomy much in line with cultural norms of individuality, dominated twentieth-century immune theory. Although an effective idiom, the self construct has proven inadequate to account for the organism’s normal physiology and exchanges with the environment. When integrated into its larger ecology, immunity’s governing model shifts from defense to the more basic cognitive function of information processing that discerns benign from the toxic. The effector function (assimilate or eliminate) only follows identification of the immune object. Moreover, as a cognitive–communicative system (analogous to the brain), the immune system’s various roles assume their full expression only when the organism is |
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considered in its total environment—“internal” and “external.” |
From this perspective, beyond defending an insular individual, immunity accounts for the organism’s mutualist relationships that characterize the holobiont, where lines of demarcation are blurred. In response to this ecologically informed conception of the individual, the idea of immunity correspondingly widens. The implications of this revised configuration of immunity and its deconstructed notions of individuality and selfhood have wide significance for philosophers and life scientists working in immunology, ecology, and the cognitive sciences. |
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UNINA9910970572203321 |
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Foundational issues in human brain mapping / / edited by Stephen Jose Hanson and Martin Bunzl |
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Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2010 |
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9786612638183 |
9780262265560 |
0262265567 |
9781282638181 |
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9780262265850 |
0262265850 |
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[1st ed.] |
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1 online resource (343 p.) |
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HansonStephen Jose |
BunzlMartin |
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Brain mapping |
Brain - Magnetic resonance imaging |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Note generali |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I Location and Representation; 1 A Critique of Functional Localizers; 2 Divide and Conquer: A Defense of Functional Localizers; 3 Commentary on Divide |
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and Conquer: A Defense of Functional Localizers; 4 An Exchange about Localism; 5 Multivariate Pattern Analysis of fMRI Data: High-Dimensional Spaces for Neural and Cognitive Representations; II Inference and New Data Structures; 6 Begging the Question: The Nonindependence Error in fMRI Data Analysis; 7 On the Proper Role of Nonindependent ROI Analysis: A Commentary on Vul and Kanwisher |
8 On the Advantages of Not Having to Rely on Multiple Comparison Corrections9 Confirmation, Refutation, and the Evidence of fMRI; 10 Words and Pictures in Reports of fMRI Research; 11 Discovering How Brains Do Things; III Design and the Signal; 12 Resting-State Brain Connectivity; 13 Subtraction and Beyond: The Logic of Experimental Designs for Neuroimaging; 14 Advancements in fMRI Methods: What Can They Inform about the Functional Organization of the Human Ventral Stream?; 15 Intersubject Variability in fMRI Data: Causes, Consequences, and Related Analysis Strategies |
IV The Underdetermination of Theory by Data16 Neuroimaging and Inferential Distance: The Perils of Pictures; 17 Brains and Minds: On the Usefulness of Localization Data to Cognitive Psychology; 18 Neuroimaging as a Tool for Functionally Decomposing Cognitive Processes; 19 What Is Functional Neuroimaging For?; References; Contributors; Index; Color Insert |
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The field of neuroimaging has reached a watershed and critiques and emerging trends are raising foundational issues of methodology, measurement, and theory. Here, scholars reexamine these issues and explore controversies that have arisen in cognitive science, cognitive neuroscience, computer science, and signal processing. |
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