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Active inference : the free energy principle in mind, brain, and behavior / / Thomas Parr, Giovanni Pezzulo, and Karl J. Friston
Active inference : the free energy principle in mind, brain, and behavior / / Thomas Parr, Giovanni Pezzulo, and Karl J. Friston
Autore Parr Thomas <1993->
Pubbl/distr/stampa Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2022]
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (238 pages)
Disciplina 153
Collana The MIT Press
Soggetto topico Perception
Inference
Neurobiology
Human behavior models
Knowledge, Theory of
Bayesian statistical decision theory
Soggetto non controllato SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Neuroscience
PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Neuroscience & Cognitive Neuropsychology
PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body
ISBN 0-262-36228-7
0-262-36997-4
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto The low road to active inference -- The high road to active inference -- The generative models of active inference -- Message passing and neurobiology -- A recipe for designing active inference models -- Active inference in discrete time -- Active inference in continuous time -- Model based data analysis -- Active inference as a unified theory of sentient behaviour.
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Parr Thomas <1993->  
Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2022]
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The brain abstracted : simplification in the history and philosophy of neuroscience / / M. Chirimuuta
The brain abstracted : simplification in the history and philosophy of neuroscience / / M. Chirimuuta
Autore Chirimuuta M (Mazviita)
Pubbl/distr/stampa Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2024]
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (374 pages)
Disciplina 612.8/233
Soggetto topico Neurology
Neurons
Neurosciences - Philosophy
Cognitive science
Soggetto non controllato SCIENCE / History
SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Neuroscience
PHILOSOPHY / Criticism
ISBN 0-262-37862-0
0-262-37863-9
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Record Nr. UNINA-9910901898503321
Chirimuuta M (Mazviita)  
Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2024]
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The cortex and the critical point : understanding the power of emergence / / John M. Beggs
The cortex and the critical point : understanding the power of emergence / / John M. Beggs
Autore Beggs John M.
Edizione [1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2022]
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (217 pages)
Disciplina 612.8/25
Collana The MIT Press
Soggetto topico Cerebral cortex
Brain
Neurology
Soggetto non controllato SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Neuroscience
SCIENCE / Physics / General
COMPUTERS / Data Science / Neural Networks
ISBN 0-262-37034-4
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Critical Point in Context -- The Goals and Structure of This Book -- I. Background -- 1. The Main Idea -- A Simple Model -- Optimal Information Processing -- The Appearance of Emergent Phenomena -- Power Laws -- Avalanches -- A Phase Transition -- From a Model to Data -- The Criticality Hypothesis -- Objections and Responses to the Criticality Hypothesis -- Chapter Summary -- 2. Emergent Phenomena -- Methodological Reductionism -- The Wave as an Emergent Phenomenon -- Emergent Phenomena in the Brain -- A Simple Model of Emergent Phenomena in the Brain -- Complex Emergent Phenomena Occur at a Phase Transition -- More Complex Emergent Phenomena? -- How to Study Emergent Phenomena -- Chapter Summary -- II. The Critical Point and Its Consequences -- 3. The Critical Point -- The Branching Model: A Branching Ratio Near 1 -- The Branching Model: A Phase Transition with Control and Order Parameters -- The Branching Model: An Exponent Relation between Multiple Power Laws -- The Branching Model: Fractal Copies of Avalanches -- Signatures of Being near the Critical Point -- Signatures of the Critical Point from the Data -- In Vitro Experiments -- Data: A Branching Ratio near 1 -- Data: A Phase Transition with Control and Order Parameters -- Data: An Exponent Relation between Multiple Power Laws -- Data: Fractal Copies of Avalanches -- Objections to These Signatures of Criticality -- Chapter Summary -- 4. Optimality -- The Branching Model: Information Transmission -- The Branching Model: Dynamic Range -- The Branching Model: Susceptibility -- Data: Dynamic Range -- Data: Information Transmission -- Data: Susceptibility -- Other Predictions Yet to Be Tested -- Chapter Summary -- 5. Universality -- Universality in Physical Systems -- Universality in the Cortex: Indicators.
Indicators Seen across Species -- Indicators Seen across Scales -- Described by a Simple Model -- Chapter Summary -- III. Future Directions -- 6. Homeostasis and Health -- Homeostasis toward the Critical Point after a Major Perturbation -- Sleep and Homeostasis toward the Critical Point -- Sensory Adaptation toward the Critical Point -- Development toward the Critical Point -- Themes from Homeostasis Results -- Health -- Chapter Summary -- 7. Quasicriticality -- Universality: Unfinished Issues -- A Possible Solution: Quasicriticality -- Another View: Slightly Subcritical -- Another View: Subsampling -- Another View: Griffiths Phase -- Chapter Summary -- 8. Cortex -- The Expansion of Cortical Area -- Associations of Associations -- The Special Role of Layers 2 and 3 -- Multifunctionality and the Critical Point -- Nearly Critical in Layers 2 and 3, but Not in Layer 5 -- Staying Nearly Critical While Learning -- Timescales throughout the Hierarchy -- Chapter Summary -- 9. Epilogue -- What We Know -- What We Don't Know -- Frontier Issues -- What I Did Not Cover -- Appendix -- Relation between Power-Law Exponent and Slope (Chapters 1 and 6) -- When the Average Value of a Power Law Diverges and When It Does Not (Chapters 1 and 6) -- Long-Range Temporal Correlations (Chapters 1, 6, and 8) -- Informal Derivation of the Exponent Relation (Chapters 3, 5, 6, 7, and 8) -- Avalanche Shape Collapse (Chapters 3, 5, 6, and 8) -- How to Quantify Network Dynamics (Chapters 4 and 8) -- Software and Data for Exercises and Analyses -- Notes -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- References -- Index.
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Beggs John M.  
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A history of bodies, brains, and minds : the evolution of life and consciousness / / Francisco Aboitiz
A history of bodies, brains, and minds : the evolution of life and consciousness / / Francisco Aboitiz
Autore Aboitiz Francisco
Edizione [1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , 2024
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (0 pages)
Disciplina 155.7
Soggetto topico Human evolution
Brain - Evolution
Human behavior
Consciousness
Human beings - Forecasting
Soggetto non controllato SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution
SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Neuroscience
SCIENCE / Natural History
ISBN 0-262-37934-1
0-262-37935-X
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Record Nr. UNINA-9910901887103321
Aboitiz Francisco  
Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , 2024
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The neurocognitive theory of dreaming : the where, how, when, what, and why of dreams / / G. William Domhoff
The neurocognitive theory of dreaming : the where, how, when, what, and why of dreams / / G. William Domhoff
Autore Domhoff G. William
Edizione [1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , 2022
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (372 pages)
Disciplina 154.6/3
Collana The MIT Press
Soggetto topico Dreams
Cognitive neuroscience
Neural networks (Neurobiology)
Soggetto non controllato SCIENCE / Cognitive Science
SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Neuroscience
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Dreams
ISBN 0-262-37087-5
0-262-37088-3
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction: Establishing a Context, Providing an Overview -- 1. Definitions, Distinctions, and Limitations -- Introduction -- Mental Activity during Waking and during the Night -- What Is Dreaming? A Neurocognitive Definition -- 2. Neural Substrates, Embodied Simulation, and Cognitive Insufficiencies -- The Network Organization of the Human Brain -- The Neural Substrate That Supports Dreaming -- Lesion and Electrical Brain Stimulation Studies Support the Neuroimaging Findings -- Dreaming during Sleep Onset, NREM 2 Sleep, and Drifting Waking Thought -- Atypical States of Waking Consciousness and Dreaming -- The "How" of Dreams: Dreaming as a Form of Embodied Simulation -- The Importance of Cognitive Factors in Dream Recall -- Cognitive Insufficiencies in Dreaming -- Under What Conditions Does Dreaming Occur? -- Conclusions and Implications -- 3. Dream Content as Revealed by Quantitative Content Analysis -- Methodological and Statistical Issues in the Study of Dream Content -- Five Categories of Embodied Simulations in Dreams -- Age, Cross-National, and Cross-Cultural Differences in Dream Reports -- The Familiar and the Unfamiliar in Dream Reports -- Cognition and Cognitive Appraisals in Dreams -- The Continuity between Dreaming and Waking Thought -- Conclusions and Implications -- 4. Findings on Dream Content in Individual Dream Series -- Safeguards, Methodological Strategies, and Statistical Rationales -- Consistency in Two Very Different Dream Series -- Consistency and Continuity in Three Unusual Dream Series of Varying Lengths -- Character Networks in Dream Series Are Small-World Networks -- Dream Reports from 2020 Relating to COVID-19 -- Conclusions and Implications -- 5. The Search for Symbolism in Dreams -- Experimental Studies of Symbolic Elements in Dreams.
Systematic Empirical Studies of Symbolism Based on Content Analysis -- Studies of Unusual Elements in Lengthy Dream Series -- Cognitive Linguistics, Figurative Thinking, and Dreams -- Neuroimaging Studies of Waking Metaphoric Thinking -- Conclusions and Implications -- 6. The Development of Dreaming in Children -- The Maturation of the Default Network -- Dreaming Is a Gradual Cognitive Achievement -- Conclusions and Implications -- 7. The Dream Reports of Preadolescents and Adolescents -- Lab and Nonlab Findings in the Zurich Longitudinal Study -- A Dream-Diary Study of Preadolescents and Adolescents -- MRD Findings with Children and Adolescents -- Consistency and Continuity in Four Dream Series -- Conclusions and Implications -- 8. The Occurrence of Emotions in Dreams -- Quantitative Content Analyses of Emotions in Dream Reports -- Studies of Emotions Using Rating Scales -- A Comparison of Coding Systems and Rating Systems for Emotions -- The Frequency of Emotions in Adult Dream Series -- Emotions in Dream Reports from Children and Adolescents -- The Steps Leading to a Neurocognitive Theory of Emotions in Dream Reports -- Conclusions and Implications -- 9. An Assessment of Two Comprehensive Traditional Dream Theories -- Freudian Dream Theory -- The Activation-Synthesis Theory of Dreaming -- Conclusions and Implications -- 10. Dreaming, Adaptive Functions, and Cultural Uses -- The Problem-Solving Theory of Dream Function -- Emotions-Related Theories of the Adaptive Function of Dreaming -- Mastery and Rehearsal Theories of Dream Function -- Dreaming as a Culturally and Individually Useful By-Product -- Conclusions and Implications -- 11. The Neurocognitive Theory Compared to Other Dream Theories -- Meaning, Lawfulness, and Adaptive Function -- Looking toward the Future -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Index.
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Domhoff G. William  
Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , 2022
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Neuroscience and philosophy / / edited by Felipe De Brigard and Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
Neuroscience and philosophy / / edited by Felipe De Brigard and Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
Pubbl/distr/stampa Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2022]
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (371 pages)
Disciplina 612.8/233
Collana The MIT Press
Soggetto topico Cognitive neuroscience - Philosophy
Soggetto non controllato SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Neuroscience
PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Neuroscience & Cognitive Neuropsychology
PHILOSOPHY / General
ISBN 0-262-36733-5
0-262-36240-6
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Record Nr. UNINA-9910576890803321
Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2022]
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Reason and less : pursuing food, sex, and politics / / Vinod Goel
Reason and less : pursuing food, sex, and politics / / Vinod Goel
Autore Goel Vinod
Pubbl/distr/stampa Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2022]
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (354 pages)
Disciplina 153.4/3
Collana The MIT Press
Soggetto topico Decision making
Reasoning
Logic
Cognitive neuroscience
Soggetto non controllato PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Neuroscience & Cognitive Neuropsychology
SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Neuroscience
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Consumer Behavior
ISBN 0-262-36970-2
0-262-36245-7
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Record Nr. UNINA-9910576890603321
Goel Vinod  
Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2022]
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The science of sadness : a new understanding of emotion / / David Huron
The science of sadness : a new understanding of emotion / / David Huron
Autore Huron David Brian
Edizione [1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2024]
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (401 pages)
Disciplina 152.4
Soggetto topico Sadness
Emotions
Soggetto non controllato PSYCHOLOGY / Emotions
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Neuroscience
ISBN 0-262-37830-2
0-262-37831-0
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Record Nr. UNINA-9910901885603321
Huron David Brian  
Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2024]
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