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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0190880163
ISBN-13
9780190880163
eBay Product ID (ePID)
3038286139
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
216 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Brains As Engines of Association : an Operating Principle for Nervous Systems
Subject
Neuroscience, Life Sciences / Neuroscience
Publication Year
2019
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Science, Medical
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
14.1 Oz
Item Length
9.4 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2018-035410
Reviews
"Purves has produced a thought-provoking, beautifully written, and illustrated book that is well worth the time for any reader interested in how the brain works." -- Apostolos P. Georgopoulos, Neuroscience and Adam F. Carpenter Neurology, University of Minnesota, The Quarterly Review of Biology"Purves has spent his career on the leading edge of decoding the nervous system. He consistently forwards new hypotheses to make sense of the phenomena that define our reality, and this book seeks to lay bare his insightful framework." -- David Eagleman, PhD, neuroscientist at Stanford, creator of The Brain on PBS, New York Times bestselling author"In Brains as Engines of Association, Dale Purves has produced a well-formulated, highly accessible, provocative perspective that challenges the reader to think deeply about brain mechanisms of behavior, while guiding them through a wondrous tour of human endeavor that draws attention to relevant insights from biology, psychology, physics, and philosophy. The journey supports a wholly empirical explanation for brain function that Dale has championed, and includes evidence from his studies on visual and auditory perception that are sure to engage the interests of a broad audience" -- David Fitzpatrick, Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience"Over the past 20 years, Purves has developed a theory of perception that he calls 'a wholly empirical strategy.' In this book, he provides a lucid explanation and comprehensive defense of his provocative ideas, and sets it in a broader evolutionary context. In addition to being of broad and general interest, it challenges biologists to find out how the brain accomplishes the remarkable feats that Purves documents." -- Joshua R. Sanes, Harvard University, "Purves has produced a thought-provoking, beautifully written, and illustrated book that is well worth the time for any reader interested in how the brain works." -- Apostolos P. Georgopoulos, Neuroscience and Adam F. Carpenter Neurology, University of Minnesota, The Quarterly Review of Biology "Purves has spent his career on the leading edge of decoding the nervous system. He consistently forwards new hypotheses to make sense of the phenomena that define our reality, and this book seeks to lay bare his insightful framework." -- David Eagleman, PhD, neuroscientist at Stanford, creator of The Brain on PBS, New York Times bestselling author "In Brains as Engines of Association, Dale Purves has produced a well-formulated, highly accessible, provocative perspective that challenges the reader to think deeply about brain mechanisms of behavior, while guiding them through a wondrous tour of human endeavor that draws attention to relevant insights from biology, psychology, physics, and philosophy. The journey supports a wholly empirical explanation for brain function that Dale has championed, and includes evidence from his studies on visual and auditory perception that are sure to engage the interests of a broad audience" -- David Fitzpatrick, Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience "Over the past 20 years, Purves has developed a theory of perception that he calls 'a wholly empirical strategy.' In this book, he provides a lucid explanation and comprehensive defense of his provocative ideas, and sets it in a broader evolutionary context. In addition to being of broad and general interest, it challenges biologists to find out how the brain accomplishes the remarkable feats that Purves documents." -- Joshua R. Sanes, Harvard University, "Purves has spent his career on the leading edge of decoding the nervous system. He consistently forwards new hypotheses to make sense of the phenomena that define our reality, and this book seeks to lay bare his insightful framework." -- David Eagleman, PhD, neuroscientist at Stanford, creator of The Brain on PBS, New York Times bestselling author "In Brains as Engines of Association, Dale Purves has produced a well-formulated, highly accessible, provocative perspective that challenges the reader to think deeply about brain mechanisms of behavior, while guiding them through a wondrous tour of human endeavor that draws attention to relevant insights from biology, psychology, physics, and philosophy. The journey supports a wholly empirical explanation for brain function that Dale has championed, and includes evidence from his studies on visual and auditory perception that are sure to engage the interests of a broad audience" -- David Fitzpatrick, Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience "Over the past 20 years, Purves has developed a theory of perception that he calls 'a wholly empirical strategy.' In this book, he provides a lucid explanation and comprehensive defense of his provocative ideas, and sets it in a broader evolutionary context. In addition to being of broad and general interest, it challenges biologists to find out how the brain accomplishes the remarkable feats that Purves documents." -- Joshua R. Sanes, Harvard University, "In Brains as Engines of Association, Dale Purves has produced a well-formulated, highly accessible, provocative perspective that challenges the reader to think deeply about brain mechanisms of behavior, while guiding them through a wondrous tour of human endeavor that draws attention to relevant insights from biology, psychology, physics, and philosophy. The journey supports a wholly empirical explanation for brain function that Dale has championed, and includes evidence from his studies on visual and auditory perception that are sure to engage the interests of a broad audience" -- David Fitzpatrick, Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience "Over the past 20 years, Purves has developed a theory of perception that he calls 'a wholly empirical strategy.' In this book, he provides a lucid explanation and comprehensive defense of his provocative ideas, and sets it in a broader evolutionary context. In addition to being of broad and general interest, it challenges biologists to find out how the brain accomplishes the remarkable feats that Purves documents." -- Joshua R. Sanes, Harvard University, "Purves has produced a thought-provoking, beautifully written, and illustrated book that is well worth the time for any reader interested in how the brain works." -- Apostolos P. Georgopoulos, Neuroscience and Adam F. Carpenter Neurology, University of Minnesota, The Quarterly Review of Biology"Purves has spent his career on the leading edge of decoding the nervous system. He consistently forwards new hypotheses to make sense of the phenomena that define our reality, and this book seeks to lay bare his insightful framework." -- David Eagleman, PhD, neuroscientist at Stanford, creator of The Brain on PBS, New York Times bestselling author"In Brains as Engines of Association, Dale Purves has produced a well-formulated, highly accessible, provocative perspective that challenges the reader to think deeply about brain mechanisms of behavior, while guiding them through a wondrous tour of human endeavor that draws attention to relevant insights from biology, psychology, physics, and philosophy. The journey supports a wholly empirical explanation for brain function that Dale has championed,and includes evidence from his studies on visual and auditory perception that are sure to engage the interests of a broad audience" -- David Fitzpatrick, Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience"Over the past 20 years, Purves has developed a theory of perception that he calls 'a wholly empirical strategy.' In this book, he provides a lucid explanation and comprehensive defense of his provocative ideas, and sets it in a broader evolutionary context. In addition to being of broad and general interest, it challenges biologists to find out how the brain accomplishes the remarkable feats that Purves documents." -- Joshua R. Sanes, Harvard University
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
612.82
Table Of Content
Preface PART I. What Nervous Systems Do for Animals Chapter 1. Putting the Question in Perspective Introduction Life on Earth Defining life Energy Evolution Mechanisms Teleology Conclusion Suggested Reading Chapter 2. Organisms without Nervous Systems Introduction Bacteria Protists Plants The general strategy Conclusion Suggested Reading Chapter 3. Organisms with Nervous Systems Introduction Defining nervous systems The emergence of nervous systems The emergence of central nervous systems What do nervous systems add? What do brains add? Conclusion Suggested Reading PART II. Neural Systems as Engines of Association Chapter 4. The Organization of Nervous Systems Introduction Stimuli Pre-neural processing Neural processing Behavioral output Neural systems and subsystems are interactive Conclusion Suggested Reading Chapter 5. The Problem Introduction Vision as an example The basic challenge The answer in general terms Qualia determined by empirical ranking Perceptual discrepancies Mechanisms Other modalities The meaning of 'illusions' Conclusion Suggested Reading Chapter 6. Neural Associations Introduction Associations wrought be evolution Associations wrought by lifetime learning Associations wrought by culture Behavioral categories of associations Reward Behavioral responses as reflexes What gets associated? Counterarguments Conclusion Suggested Reading PART III. Evidence that Neural Systems Operate EMPIRICALLY Chapter 7. Evidence from Lightness and Color Introduction Luminance and lightness Analyzing the occurrence of luminance patterns Effects of other luminance patterns Spectral energy and color The general strategy Conclusion Suggested Reading Chapter 8. Evidence from Geometry Introduction Seeing intervals Seeing angles Seeing object sizes in 2-D Seeing object sizes in 3-D Seeing stereo depth Conclusion Suggested Reading Chapter 9. Evidence from Motion Introduction Apparent motion The perception of speed Implications for the perception of time The perception of direction Conclusion Suggested Reading Chapter 10. Evidence from Audition Introduction Sound signals Sources of tones Sound signal spectra The problem in audition An empirical approach Evidence from speech Evidence from music Implications for any sensory system Conclusion Suggested Reading PART IV. alternative Concepts Neural Function Chapter 11. The Major Options Introduction Neural function as feature detection Neural function as statistical inference Neural function as efficient coding Neural function as computation Conclusion Suggested Reading Chapter 12. Summing Up Introduction A way around some fundamental obstacles Empirical ranking Insight from games Artificial intelligence Consequences for neuroscience The status of reasoning Novel situations Choice Culture The frequency of stimuli Conclusion Suggested Reading Bibliography Glossary Index Acknowledgments
Synopsis
Brains as Engines of Association tackles a fundamental question in neuroscience: what is the operating principle of the human brain? While a similar question has been asked and answered for virtually every other human organ during the last few centuries, how the brain operates has remained a central challenge in biology. Based on evidence derived from vision, audition, speech and music--much of it based on the author's own work over the last twenty years-- Brains as Engines of Association argues that brains operate wholly on the basis of trial and error experience, encoded in neural circuitry over evolutionary and individual time. This concept of neural function runs counter to current concepts that view the brain as a computing machine, and research programs based on the idea that the only way to answer such questions is by reconstructing the connectivity of brains in their entirety. This view also implies that the best way to understand the details of brain function is to recapitulate their history using artificial neural networks. While this viewpoint has received support in the last few years from work showing that computers can win complex games, the brain plays a much more complex game--the "game" of biological survival--which Purves concludes is based on trial-and-error experience., Brains as Engines of Association unravels how human brains operate. Based on evidence from vision, audition, speech and music, Purves argues that brains function wholly on the basis of trial and error experience that has been encoded in neural circuitry over evolutionary and individual time. The theory presents a challenge to all neuroscientists., Brains as Engines of Association tackles a fundamental question in neuroscience: what is the operating principle of the human brain? While a similar question has been asked and answered for virtually every other human organ during the last few centuries, how the brain operates has remained a central challenge in biology. Based on evidence derived from vision, audition, speech and music - much of it based on the author's own work over the last twenty years - Brains as Engines of Association argues that brains operate wholly on the basis of trial and error experience, encoded in neural circuitry over evolutionary and individual time. This concept of neural function runs counter to current concepts that view the brain as a computing machine, and research programs based on the idea that the only way to answer such questions is by reconstructing the connectivity of brains in their entirety. This view also implies that the best way to understand the details of brain function is to recapitulate their history using artificial neural networks. While this viewpoint has received support in the last few years from work showing that computers can win complex games, the brain plays a much more complex game - the "game" of biological survival - which Purves concludes is based on trial-and-error experience., Brains as Engines of Association tackles a fundamental question in neuroscience: what is the operating principle of the human brain? While a similar question has been asked and answered for virtually every other human organ during the last few centuries, how the brain operates has remained a central challenge in biology. Based on evidence derived from vision, audition, speech and music--much of it based on the author's own work over the last twenty years--Brains as Engines of Association argues that brains operate wholly on the basis of trial and error experience, encoded in neural circuitry over evolutionary and individual time. This concept of neural function runs counter to current concepts that view the brain as a computing machine, and research programs based on the idea that the only way to answer such questions is by reconstructing the connectivity of brains in their entirety. This view also implies that the best way to understand the details of brain function is to recapitulate their history using artificial neural networks. While this viewpoint has received support in the last few years from work showing that computers can win complex games, the brain plays a much more complex game--the "game" of biological survival--which Purves concludes is based on trial-and-error experience.
LC Classification Number
QP356.25.P86 2019
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