Brains top down :
Brains top down : is top-down causation challenging neuroscience? /
[edited by] Gennaro Auletta, Ivan Colagè, Marc Jeannerod.
- New Jersey : World Scientific, [2013]
- x, 365 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : consciousness as a top-down causal agency / G. Auletta and M. Jeannerod -- A constraining role of the mind? / G. Auletta -- Neurons, schemas, persons, and society revisited / M.A. Arbib -- The neural basis of consciousness and the issue of downward causation / notes by G. Auletta and I. Colagè on Damasio's contribution -- The functional role of conscious will in voluntary action : cause or consequence? : a position paper / M. Jeannerod -- Can the self be considered a cause? / J.J. Sanguineti -- The brain : a highly distributed self-organizing system : who has the initiative? / W. Singer -- Two views of brain functioning / M. Raichle -- Top-down causation in the brain : promises for cognitive psychology and challenges for research / C.R. Crowell ... [et al.] -- Consciousness and the global neuronal workspace hypothesis : from bottom-up to top-down causation and vice versa / G. Auletta and I. Colagè -- Computation, representation, and physicalism / P. Jacob -- Overall discussion -- Postface : M. Jeannerod (1935- 2011) : a personal note / G. Rizzolatti.
9789814412452 (hardcover : alk. paper)
2013007836
Brain--physiology.
Consciousness--physiology.
QP376 / .B737 2013
612.8/2
WL 300
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : consciousness as a top-down causal agency / G. Auletta and M. Jeannerod -- A constraining role of the mind? / G. Auletta -- Neurons, schemas, persons, and society revisited / M.A. Arbib -- The neural basis of consciousness and the issue of downward causation / notes by G. Auletta and I. Colagè on Damasio's contribution -- The functional role of conscious will in voluntary action : cause or consequence? : a position paper / M. Jeannerod -- Can the self be considered a cause? / J.J. Sanguineti -- The brain : a highly distributed self-organizing system : who has the initiative? / W. Singer -- Two views of brain functioning / M. Raichle -- Top-down causation in the brain : promises for cognitive psychology and challenges for research / C.R. Crowell ... [et al.] -- Consciousness and the global neuronal workspace hypothesis : from bottom-up to top-down causation and vice versa / G. Auletta and I. Colagè -- Computation, representation, and physicalism / P. Jacob -- Overall discussion -- Postface : M. Jeannerod (1935- 2011) : a personal note / G. Rizzolatti.
9789814412452 (hardcover : alk. paper)
2013007836
Brain--physiology.
Consciousness--physiology.
QP376 / .B737 2013
612.8/2
WL 300