The Mindful Brain
Cortical Organization and the Group-Selective Theory of Higher Brain Function
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- Paperback
106 pages
- Release Date
30 March 1982
Summary
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 o…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262550079 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262550075 |
| Author: | Gerald M. Edelman, Vernon B. Mountcastle |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 106 |
| Edition: | New edition |
| Release Date: | 30 March 1982 |
| Weight: | 259g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
| Series: | MIT Press |
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Critics Review
“Each essay is superb in form and scholarship… An important book that should be read by all interested in the topic.” Choice “The Mindful Brain is a proposal by two eminent biological scientists for a mechanism whereby mind becomes manifest from the operations of brain tissue. The proposal is detailed and in many respects sophisticated. “Mountcastle, dean of American neurophysiologists, presents the case for a modular structure of the cerebral cortex… “Edelman, a Nobel laureate, gives mathematical form to the proposed mechanism by applying to the functioning of the brain the theory of selection which he so successfully applied to immunological processes.” Karl H. Pribram , Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
About The Author
Gerald M. Edelman
Gerald M. Edelman, M.D., Ph.D., is director, The Neurosciences Institute; president, Neurosciences Research Foundation; and chairman, Department of Neurobiology, The Scripps Research Institute. The recipient of many honors and awards, including the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, Edelman is the author of “Wider than the Sky: The Phenomenal Gift of Consciousness,” published by Yale University Press.“”
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