Towards a Theoretical Neuroscience: from Cell Chemistry to Cognition

2013
ISBN: 978-94-007-7106-2
Verlag: Springer Netherlands

Buch, Englisch, Band 8, 443 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 8999 g

Reihe: Springer Series in Cognitive and Neural Systems

The book explains how to understand cognition in terms of brain anatomy, physiology and chemistry, using an approach adapted from techniques for understanding complex electronic systems. These techniques create hierarchies of information process based descriptions on different levels of detail, where higher levels contain less information and can therefore describe complete cognitive phenomena, but are more approximate. The nature of the approximations are well understood, and more approximate higher level descriptions can therefore be mapped to more precise detailed descriptions of any part of a phenomenon as required. Cognitive phenomena, the anatomy and connectivity of major brain structures, neuron physiology, and cellular chemistry are reviewed. Various cognitive tasks are described in terms of information processes performed by different major anatomical structures. These higher level descriptions are selectively mapped to more detailed physiological and chemical levels.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Coward, L Andrew

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Vorklinische Medizin: Grundlagenfächer Molekulare Medizin, Zellbiologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Neurologie, Klinische Neurowissenschaft
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Neurowissenschaften, Kognitionswissenschaft
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Biomedizin, Medizinische Forschung, Klinische Studien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The nature of scientific understanding.- Higher Cognition.- Brain Anatomy.- Neuron Physiology.- Intracellular message chains.- Major Anatomical Structures.- Constraints on the physical architecture of the brain.- Appearance of architectural constraints in the brain.- Memory and the organisation of experience.- Attention and working memory.- Understanding complex cognitive phenomena.- Towards a Theoretical Neuroscience.