Brains as Engines of Association: An Operating Principle for Nervous Systems Dale Purves

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0190880163
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0190880163
• Author(s): Dale Purves

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.

Table contents:

1. Putting the Question in Perspective
2. Organisms Without Nervous Systems
3. Organisms With Nervous Systems
4. The Organization of Nervous Systems
5. The Problem
6. Neural Associations
7. Evidence from Lightness and Color
8. Evidence from Geometry
9. Evidence from Motion
10. Evidence from Audition
11. The Major Options
12. Summing Up
Index

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