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873395
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Purves, Dale
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Brains as engines of association : : an operating principle for nervous systems /\ Dale Purves.
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New York, NY :: Oxford University Press,, [2019]
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, ©2019
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1 online resource
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0190929944
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: 9780190929947
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0190880163
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9780190880163
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Cover; Brains as Engines of Association; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I; 1. Putting the Question in Perspective; Introduction; Life on Earth; Defining Life; Energy; Evolution; Mechanisms; Teleology; Conclusion; Suggested Reading; 2. Organisms Without Nervous Systems; Introduction; Bacteria; Protists; Plants; The General Strategy; Conclusion; Suggested Reading; 3. Organisms With Nervous Systems; Introduction; Defining Nervous Systems; The Emergence of Nervous Systems; The Emergence of Central Nervous Systems; What Do Brains Add?; Conclusion; Suggested Reading; Part II
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4. The Organization of Nervous SystemsIntroduction; Stimuli; Preneural Processing; Neural Processing; Behavioral Output; Neural Systems and Subsystems Are Interactive; Conclusion; Suggested Reading; 5. The Problem; Introduction; Vision as an Example; The Basic Challenge; An Answer in General Terms; Qualia Determined by Empirical Ordering; Perceptual Discrepancies; Mechanisms; Other Modalities; Conclusion; Suggested Reading; 6. Neural Associations; Introduction; Associations Wrought by Evolution; Associations Wrought by Lifetime Learning; Associations Wrought by Culture
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Behavioral Categories of AssociationsReward; Behavioral Responses as Reflexes; What Is Associated?; Counterarguments; Conclusion; Suggested Reading; Part III; 7. Evidence from Lightness and Color; Introduction; Luminance and Lightness; Analyzing the Occurrence of Luminance Patterns; Effects of Other Luminance Patterns; Spectral Energy and Color; The General Strategy; Conclusion; Suggested Reading; 8. Evidence from Geometry; Introduction; Seeing Intervals; Seeing Angles; Seeing Object Sizes in Two Dimensions; Seeing Object Sizes in Three Dimensions; Seeing Stereo Depth; Conclusion
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Neural Function as Predictive CodingNeural Function as Efficient Coding; Neural Function as Computation; Conclusion; Suggested Reading; 12. SummingUp; Introduction; Obstacles and a Way Around Them; Empirical Ranking; Winning Games; Biological and Artificial Intelligence; Consequences for Neuroscience; The Status of Reasoning; Novel Situations; Choice; Culture; Frequency of Stimuli; Conclusion; Suggested Reading; Glossary; Bibliography; Index
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Suggested Reading9. Evidence from Motion; Introduction; Apparent Motion; The Perception of Speed; Implications for the Perception of Time; The Perception of Direction; Conclusion; Suggested Reading; 10. Evidence from Audition; Introduction; Sound Signals; Sources of Tones; Sound Signal Spectra; The Problem in Audition; An Empirical Approach; Evidence from Speech; Evidence from Music; Implications for Any Sensory System; Conclusion; Suggested Reading; Part IV; 11. The Major Options; Introduction; Neural Function as Feature Detection; Neural Function as Statistical Inference
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Brains as Engines of Association unravels how human brains operate. Based on evidence from vision, audition, speech and music, Purves argues that brains function wholly on the basis of trial and error experience that has been encoded in neural circuitry over evolutionary and individual time. The theory presents a challenge to all neuroscientists.
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Brain.
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Neural circuitry.
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Neurobiology.
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Brain.
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MEDICAL-- Physiology.
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Neural circuitry.
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Neurobiology.
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SCIENCE-- Life Sciences-- Human Anatomy Physiology.
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Brain-- physiology.
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Nerve Net-- physiology.
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Nervous System Physiological Phenomena.
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| Dewey Classification
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612.8/2
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QP356.25.P86 2019eb
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