Ebook: Representation and Brain
- Tags: Neurosciences, Cognitive Psychology, Behavioural Sciences, Psychiatry
- Year: 2007
- Publisher: Springer Tokyo
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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How is information represented in the nervous system? How is that information manipulated and processed? These are some of the more important and challenging questions for neuroscientists and psychologists today. Understanding brain functions, especially the neural mechanisms of higher cognitive processes such as thinking, reasoning, judging, and decision making, are the subjects covered by the research in the chapters of this book. They describe recent progress in four major research areas: visual functions, motor functions, memory functions, and prefrontal functions. Readers will obtain an excellent idea of how the nervous system internally represents the outer world, how the nervous system constructs images or schemas to perceive the outer world or react to the environment, and how the nervous system processes information using internal representations - topics that are at the forefront of brain science today.
How is information represented in the nervous system? How is that information manipulated and processed? These are some of the more important and challenging questions for neuroscientists and psychologists today.
Understanding brain functions, especially the neural mechanisms of higher cognitive processes such as thinking, reasoning, judging, and decision making, are the subjects covered by the research in the chapters of this book. They describe recent progress in four major research areas: visual functions, motor functions, memory functions, and prefrontal functions.
Readers will obtain an excellent idea of how the nervous system internally represents the outer world, how the nervous system constructs images or schemas to perceive the outer world or react to the environment, and how the nervous system processes information using internal representations - topics that are at the forefront of brain science today.
How is information represented in the nervous system? How is that information manipulated and processed? These are some of the more important and challenging questions for neuroscientists and psychologists today.
Understanding brain functions, especially the neural mechanisms of higher cognitive processes such as thinking, reasoning, judging, and decision making, are the subjects covered by the research in the chapters of this book. They describe recent progress in four major research areas: visual functions, motor functions, memory functions, and prefrontal functions.
Readers will obtain an excellent idea of how the nervous system internally represents the outer world, how the nervous system constructs images or schemas to perceive the outer world or react to the environment, and how the nervous system processes information using internal representations - topics that are at the forefront of brain science today.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-XII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Visual Perception of Contextual Effect and Its Neural Correlates....Pages 3-20
Multiple Mechanisms of Top-Down Processing in Vision....Pages 21-45
Invariant Representations of Objects in Natural Scenes in the Temporal Cortex Visual Areas....Pages 47-102
Representation of Objects and Scenes in Visual Working Memory in Human Brain....Pages 103-119
Front Matter....Pages 121-121
Action Representation in the Cerebral Cortex and the Cognitive Functions of the Motor System....Pages 123-149
Representation of Bodily Self in the Multimodal Parieto-Premotor Network....Pages 151-176
Neuronal Correlates of the Simulation, Execution, and Perception of Limb Movements....Pages 177-197
Neural Basis of Saccadic Decision Making in the Human Cortex....Pages 199-216
Front Matter....Pages 217-217
Neural Representations Supporting Spatial Navigation and Memory....Pages 219-248
How Can We Detect Ensemble Coding by Cell Assembly?....Pages 249-270
Representation of Numerical Information in the Brain....Pages 271-283
Front Matter....Pages 285-285
Prefrontal Representations Underlying Goal-Directed Behavior....Pages 287-310
The Prefrontal Cortex as a Model System to Understand Representation and Processing of Information....Pages 311-336
Large-Scale Network Dynamics in Neurocognitive Function....Pages 337-358
Back Matter....Pages 359-366
How is information represented in the nervous system? How is that information manipulated and processed? These are some of the more important and challenging questions for neuroscientists and psychologists today.
Understanding brain functions, especially the neural mechanisms of higher cognitive processes such as thinking, reasoning, judging, and decision making, are the subjects covered by the research in the chapters of this book. They describe recent progress in four major research areas: visual functions, motor functions, memory functions, and prefrontal functions.
Readers will obtain an excellent idea of how the nervous system internally represents the outer world, how the nervous system constructs images or schemas to perceive the outer world or react to the environment, and how the nervous system processes information using internal representations - topics that are at the forefront of brain science today.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-XII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Visual Perception of Contextual Effect and Its Neural Correlates....Pages 3-20
Multiple Mechanisms of Top-Down Processing in Vision....Pages 21-45
Invariant Representations of Objects in Natural Scenes in the Temporal Cortex Visual Areas....Pages 47-102
Representation of Objects and Scenes in Visual Working Memory in Human Brain....Pages 103-119
Front Matter....Pages 121-121
Action Representation in the Cerebral Cortex and the Cognitive Functions of the Motor System....Pages 123-149
Representation of Bodily Self in the Multimodal Parieto-Premotor Network....Pages 151-176
Neuronal Correlates of the Simulation, Execution, and Perception of Limb Movements....Pages 177-197
Neural Basis of Saccadic Decision Making in the Human Cortex....Pages 199-216
Front Matter....Pages 217-217
Neural Representations Supporting Spatial Navigation and Memory....Pages 219-248
How Can We Detect Ensemble Coding by Cell Assembly?....Pages 249-270
Representation of Numerical Information in the Brain....Pages 271-283
Front Matter....Pages 285-285
Prefrontal Representations Underlying Goal-Directed Behavior....Pages 287-310
The Prefrontal Cortex as a Model System to Understand Representation and Processing of Information....Pages 311-336
Large-Scale Network Dynamics in Neurocognitive Function....Pages 337-358
Back Matter....Pages 359-366
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