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Perceptual Neuroscience

The Cerebral Cortex

By: Vernon B. Mountcastle

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Perceptual Neuroscience

The Cerebral Cortex

By: Vernon B. Mountcastle

This monumental work creates a new subdiscipline: perceptual neuroscience. Mountcastle gathers information from a vast number of sources reaching back through two centuries, from phylogenetic, comparative, and neuroanatomical studies of the neocortex to rhythmicity and synchronization in neocortical networks and inquiries into the binding problem.

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The Cerebral Cortex

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The Sensory Hand

Neural Mechanisms of Somatic Sensation

By: Vernon B. Mountcastle

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The Sensory Hand

Neural Mechanisms of Somatic Sensation

By: Vernon B. Mountcastle

Vernon Mountcastle has devoted his career to studying the neurophysiology of sensation in the hand. In The Sensory Hand he provides an astonishingly comprehensive account of the neural underpinnings of the rich and complex tactile experiences evoked by stimulation of the hand.

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The Mindful Brain

Cortical Organization and the Group-Selective Theory of Higher Brain Function

By: Gerald M. Edelman,Vernon B. Mountcastle

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The Mindful Brain

Cortical Organization and the Group-Selective Theory of Higher Brain Function

By: Gerald M. Edelman,Vernon B. Mountcastle

A proposal by two eminent biological scientists for a mechanism whereby mind becomes manifest from the operations of brain tissue. This significant contribution to neuroscience consists of two papers, the first by Mountcastle an, the second by Edelman. Between them, they examine from different but complementary directions the relationships that connect the higher brain—memory, learning, perception, thinking—with what goes on at the most basic levels of neural activity, with particular stress on the role of local neuronal circuits.Edelman's major hypothesis is that "the conscious state results from phasic reentrant signaling occurring in parallel processes that involve associations between stored patterns and current sensory or internal input." This selective process occurs by the polling of degenerate primary repertoires of neuronal groups that are formed during embryogenesis and development. Edelman's theory extrapolates to the brain the selectionistic immunological theories for which he was awarded the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Mountcastle's paper reviews what is known about the actual structure of various parts of the neo cortex. He relates the large entities of the neocortex to their component modules—the local neuronal circuits—and shows how the complex interrelationships of such a distributed system can yield dynamic distributed functioning. There are strong conceptual parallels between Mountcastle's idea of cortical columns and their functional subunits and Edelman's concept of populations of neurons functioning as processors in a brain system based on selectional rather than instructional principles. These parallels are traced and put into perspective in Francis Schmitt's Introduction.

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MIT Press

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0262550075

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The Sensory Hand

Neural Mechanisms of Somatic Sensation

By: Vernon B. Mountcastle

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Neural Mechanisms of Somatic Sensation

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Perceptual Neuroscience

Perceptual Neuroscience

Perceptual Neuroscience

Perceptual Neuroscience

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