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Brains as engines of association : an operating principle for nervous systems / Dale Purves

Author
Purves, Dale
Published
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]
Physical Description
xiii, 196 pages ; 24 cm

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Contents
Machine generated contents note: pt. I What Nervous Systems Do for Animals -- 1.Putting the Question in Perspective -- Introduction -- Life on Earth -- Denning Life -- Energy -- Evolution -- Mechanisms -- Teleology -- Conclusion -- Suggested Reading -- 2.Organisms Without Nervous Systems -- Introduction -- Bacteria -- Protists -- Plants -- The General Strategy -- Conclusion -- Suggested Reading -- 3.Organisms With Nervous Systems -- Introduction -- Defining Nervous Systems -- The Emergence of Nervous Systems -- The Emergence of Central Nervous Systems -- What Do Brains Add? -- Conclusion -- Suggested Reading -- pt. II Nervous Systems as Engines of Association -- 4.The Organization of Nervous Systems -- Introduction -- Stimuli -- Preneural Processing -- Neural Processing -- Behavioral Output -- Neural Systems and Subsystems Are Interactive -- Conclusion -- Suggested Reading -- 5.The Problem -- Introduction -- Vision as an Example -- The Basic Challenge -- An Answer in General Terms -- Qualia Determined by Empirical Ordering -- Perceptual Discrepancies -- Mechanisms -- Other Modalities -- Conclusion -- Suggested Reading -- 6.Neural Associations -- Introduction -- Associations Wrought by Evolution -- Associations Wrought by Lifetime Learning -- Associations Wrought by Culture -- Behavioral Categories of Associations -- Reward -- Behavioral Responses as Reflexes -- What Is Associated? -- Counterarguments -- Conclusion -- Suggested Reading -- pt. III Evidence that Neural Systems Operate Empirically -- 7.Evidence from Lightness and Color -- Introduction -- Luminance and Lightness -- Analyzing the Occurrence of Luminance Patterns -- Effects of Other Luminance Patterns -- Spectral Energy and Color -- The General Strategy -- Conclusion -- Suggested Reading -- 8.Evidence from Geometry -- Introduction -- Seeing Intervals -- Seeing Angles -- Seeing Object Sizes in Two Dimensions -- Seeing Object Sizes in Three Dimensions -- Seeing Stereo Depth -- Conclusion -- Suggested Reading -- 9.Evidence from Motion -- Introduction -- Apparent Motion -- The Perception of Speed -- Implications for the Perception of Time -- The Perception of Direction -- Conclusion -- Suggested Reading -- 10.Evidence from Audition -- Introduction -- Sound Signals -- Sources of Tones -- Sound Signal Spectra -- The Problem in Audition -- An Empirical Approach -- Evidence from Speech -- Evidence from Music -- Implications for Any Sensory System -- Conclusion -- Suggested Reading -- pt. IV Alternative Concepts of Neural Function -- 11.The Major Options -- Introduction -- Neural Function as Feature Detection -- Neural Function as Statistical Inference -- Neural Function as Predictive Coding -- Neural Function as Efficient Coding -- Neural Function as Computation -- Conclusion -- Suggested Reading -- 12.Summing Up -- Introduction -- Obstacles and a Way Around Them -- Empirical Ranking -- Winning Games -- Biological and Artificial Intelligence -- Consequences for Neuroscience -- The Status of Reasoning -- Novel Situations -- Choice -- Culture -- Frequency of Stimuli -- Conclusion -- Suggested Reading.
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ISBN
9780190880163 (hardcover)
0190880163
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-186) and index.
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