Douglas Tweed

Microcosms of the Brain

What Sensorimotor Systems Reveal about the Mind

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

How can we understand a system as intricate as the human brain? Microcosms of the brain presents a bold new approach to understanding this incredibly complex organ. Written to be accessible to students and researchers in the cognitive sciences, this is a book that could change the way that we explore the human mind.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Oktober 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 324g
• ISBN-13: 9780198528937
• ISBN-10: 0198528930
• Artikelnr.: 21461133

Autorenporträt

(Professor of Physiology and Medicine, University of Toronto, Canada)

Inhaltsangabe

1: Brain of darkness
2: Guide to the interior
3: On the shoulders of computers
4: Genome for a network
5: The adaptive brain
6: Unfolding in time
7: Brains and brawn
8: Thoughts running in circles
9: Degrees of freedom
10: The flow of information
11: Inference
12: The search for intelligent life in the brain