| Description |
x, 278 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Table of contents for From brains to consciousness? : essays on the new sciences of the mind / edited by Steven Rose. -- Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog -- Information from electronic data provided by the publisher. May be incomplete or contain other coding. -- Acknowledgements Preface 1 Brains, Minds and the World 1 2 The Human Brain: 100 Billion Connected Cells 18 3 The Pharmacology of Thought and Emotion 33 4 Memory and Brain Systems 53 5 The Physiological Basis of Memory 73 6 Ageing of the Brain: Is Mental Decline Inevitable? 94 7 Why There Will Never Be a Convincing Theory of Schizophrenia 109 8 Nuclear Schizophrenic Symptoms as the Key to the Evolution of Modern Homo sapiens 137 9 Can a Computer Understand? 154 10 A Neurocomputational View of Consciousness 180 11 Flagging the Present with Qualia 200 12 How Might the Brain Generate Consciousness? 210 13 Consciousness from a Neurobiological Perspective 228 14 One World, but a Big One 246 Notes on Contributors 271 Index 275 -- Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Consciousness, Brain, Neuropsychology, Memory |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
| Subject |
Consciousness.
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Brain.
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Neuropsychology.
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Memory.
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| Author |
Rose, Steven P. R. (Steven Peter Russell), 1938-
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| LC no. |
98024383 |
| ISBN |
0691004692 cloth alkaline paper |
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