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The Neuron and the Mind

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The Neuron and the Mind

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Microneuronal Theory and Practice in Cognitive Neuroscience

The Neuron and the Mind

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The Neuron and the Mind book

Microneuronal Theory and Practice in Cognitive Neuroscience
ByWilliam R. Uttal
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2016
eBook Published 20 July 2016
Pub. Location New York
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315617480
Pages 220
eBook ISBN 9781315617480
Subjects Behavioral Sciences, Bioscience, Humanities
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Uttal, W.R. (2016). The Neuron and the Mind: Microneuronal Theory and Practice in Cognitive Neuroscience (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315617480

ABSTRACT

This book, a companion to William R. Uttal’s earlier work on macrotheories theories of mind-brain relationships, reviews another set of theories—those based on microneuronal measurements. Microneural theories maintain the integrity of individual neurons either in isolation or as participants in the great neuronal networks that make up the physical brain. Despite an almost universal acceptance by cognitive neuroscientists that the intangible mind must, in some way, be encoded by network states, Uttal shows that the problem of how the transformation occurs is not yet supported by empirical research findings at the micro as well as at the macro levels of analysis. Theories of the neuronal network survive more as metaphors than as robust explanations. This book also places special emphasis on the technological developments that stimulate these metaphors. A major conclusion drawn in this book is that it is not at all certain that the mind-brain problem is solvable in the sense that many other grand scientific problems are.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|35 pages

Introduction 1

chapter 2|30 pages

Single Neuron Practice and Theory

chapter 3|46 pages

Microneuronal Network Theories—Technique and Methods

chapter 4|28 pages

Intermediate Level Neuronal Networks—The Role of Models

chapter 5|35 pages

Large-Scale Computer Simulations (Theories) of Cognition

chapter 6|5 pages

Emerging Conclusions

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