The Mindful Brain: Cortical Organization and the Group-Selective Theory of Higher Brain Function

A proposal by two eminent biological scientists for a mechanism whereby mind becomes manifest from the operations...
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Author: Gerald M. Edelman
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The Mindful Brain: Cortical Organization and the Group-Selective Theory of Higher Brain Function by Edelman, Gerald M.

The Mindful Brain: Cortical Organization and the Group-Selective Theory of Higher Brain Function

Dhs. 234.63

The Mindful Brain: Cortical Organization and the Group-Selective Theory of Higher Brain Function

Dhs. 234.63
Author: Gerald M. Edelman
Format: Paperback
Language: English
A proposal by two eminent biological scientists for a mechanism whereby mind becomes manifest from the operations of brain tissue.

This significant contribution to neuroscience consists of two papers, the first by Mountcastle an, the second by Edelman. Between them, they examine from different but complementary directions the relationships that connect the higher brain--memory, learning, perception, thinking--with what goes on at the most basic levels of neural activity, with particular stress on the role of local neuronal circuits.Edelman's major hypothesis is that "the conscious state results from phasic reentrant signaling occurring in parallel processes that involve associations between stored patterns and current sensory or internal input." This selective process occurs by the polling of degenerate primary repertoires of neuronal groups that are formed during embryogenesis and development. Edelman's theory extrapolates to the brain the selectionistic immunological theories for which he was awarded the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Mountcastle's paper reviews what is known about the actual structure of various parts of the neo cortex. He relates the large entities of the neocortex to their component modules--the local neuronal circuits--and shows how the complex interrelationships of such a distributed system can yield dynamic distributed functioning. There are strong conceptual parallels between Mountcastle's idea of cortical columns and their functional subunits and Edelman's concept of populations of neurons functioning as processors in a brain system based on selectional rather than instructional principles. These parallels are traced and put into perspective in Francis Schmitt's Introduction.



Author: Gerald M. Edelman, Vernon B. Mountcastle
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 03/30/1982
Pages: 106
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.90w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9780262550079
Audience: Young Adult

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