Towards a Theoretical Neuroscience: from Cell Chemistry to Cognition

L Andrew Coward (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

443 Seiten

2015 | Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2013
Springer (Verlag)
978-94-007-9952-3 (ISBN)

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The book explains how to understand cognition in terms of brain anatomy, physiology and chemistry, using an approach adapted from techniques for understanding complex electronic systems. These techniques create hierarchies of information process based descriptions on different levels of detail, where higher levels contain less information and can therefore describe complete cognitive phenomena, but are more approximate. The nature of the approximations are well understood, and more approximate higher level descriptions can therefore be mapped to more precise detailed descriptions of any part of a phenomenon as required. Cognitive phenomena, the anatomy and connectivity of major brain structures, neuron physiology, and cellular chemistry are reviewed. Various cognitive tasks are described in terms of information processes performed by different major anatomical structures. These higher level descriptions are selectively mapped to more detailed physiological and chemical levels.

The nature of scientific understanding.- Higher Cognition.- Brain Anatomy.- Neuron Physiology.- Intracellular message chains.- Major Anatomical Structures.- Constraints on the physical architecture of the brain.- Appearance of architectural constraints in the brain.- Memory and the organisation of experience.- Attention and working memory.- Understanding complex cognitive phenomena.- Towards a Theoretical Neuroscience.

Erscheinungsdatum	19.10.2015
Reihe/Serie	Springer Series in Cognitive and Neural Systems ; 8
Zusatzinfo	XX, 443 p.
Verlagsort	Dordrecht
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Biopsychologie / Neurowissenschaften
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Netzwerke
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Neurologie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Studium
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
ISBN-10	94-007-9952-7 / 9400799527
ISBN-13	978-94-007-9952-3 / 9789400799523
Zustand	Neuware