E. Bruce Goldstein

The Mind (eBook, ePUB)

Consciousness, Prediction, and the Brain

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An accessible and engaging account of the mind and its connection to the brain. The mind encompasses everything we experience, and these experiences are created by the brain--often without our awareness. Experience is private; we can't know the minds of others. But we also don't know what is happening in our own minds. In this book, E. Bruce Goldstein offers an accessible and engaging account of the mind and its connection to the brain. He takes as his starting point two central questions--what is the mind? and what is consciousness?--and leads readers through topics that range from conceptions of the mind in popular culture to the wiring system of the brain. Throughout, he draws on the latest research, explaining its significance and relevance.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: MIT Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780262358774
• Artikelnr.: 58671628

Autorenporträt

E. Bruce Goldstein is Associate Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Pittsburgh and currently teaches courses about the mind for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Carnegie-Mellon University, the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Arizona. An award-winning textbook writer, he is the author of Sensation and Perception (now in its tenth edition) and Cognitive Psychology (now in its fifth edition).

Inhaltsangabe

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION TO THE MIND
THE MULTIFACETED MIND
EARLY MEASUREMENTS OF THE MIND
THE STUDY OF THE MIND IS SUSPENDED BY BEHAVIORISM
A PARADIGM SHIFT TOWARDS THE STUDY OF THE MIND
MEANWHILE, IN POPULAR CULTURE . . .
MIND-BRAIN SKEPTICISM
MIND-BRAIN CONNECTIONS
CHAPTER 2: CONSCIOUSNESS AND EXPERIENCE
WHAT IS CONSCIOUSNESS?
CONSCIOUSNESS IN NON-HUMANS
Are Plants Conscious?
Consciousness in Non-Human Animals
What Do Animals Experience?
THE MYSTERIES OF HUMAN EXPERIENCE
Can We Know What Someone Else Is Experiencing?
Can Experience (Qualia) Be Inferred from Scientific Knowledge?
THE CREATION OF EXPERIENCE
Experience Is Created by the Nervous System
How Is Experience Created by the Nervous System?
THE NEURAL CORRELATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Localization of Function
Distributed Representation
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CHAPTER 3: THE HIDDEN MIND
HIDDEN PROCESSES REVEALED BY BRAIN DAMAGE
Visual Agnosia: Seeing Without Recognizing
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