Predictions in the Brain (eBook, ePUB)

Using Our Past to Generate a Future
Redaktion: Bar, Moshe

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

When one is immersed in the fascinating world of neuroscience findings, the brain might start to seem like a collection of "modules," each specializes in a specific mental feat. But just like in other domains of Nature, it is possible that much of the brain and mind's operation can be explained with a small set of universal principles. Given exciting recent developments, it seems that the generation of predictions might be one strong candidate for such a universal principle. This is the focus of Predictions in the brain. From the predictions required when a rat navigates a maze to food-caching in scrub-jays; from predictions essential in decision-making to social interactions; from predictions in the retina to the prefrontal cortex; and from predictions in early development to foresight in non-humans. In addition to presenting the state-of-the-art of research and ideas about predictions in mind and brain, it is hoped that this collection will stimulate important new research into the foundations of our mental lives.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780190453244
• Artikelnr.: 42636262

Autorenporträt

Moshe Bar, Ph.D, is the Director of the Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory at the Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts General Hospital. He has been using methods from cognitive psychology, psychophysics, computational neuroscience, psychiatry and human brain imaging to explore issues concerning human vision, context and predictions.