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Cognition, Computation, and Consciousness
Edited by Masao Ito, Yasushi Miyashita, and Edmund T. Rolls
276 pages
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halftones, line figures, tables
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234x156mm
978-0-19-852414-4
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Hardback
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29 May 1997
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- Contributions from leading researchers
- Topical and multidisciplinary subject combining cognitive neuroscience, computation, and philosophy
The topic of consciousness is truly multidisciplinary, attracting researchers and theorists from diverse backgrounds. It is now widely accepted that previously disparate areas all have contributions to make to the understanding of the nature of consciousness. Thus, we now have computational scientists, neuroscientists, and philosophers all engaged in the same effort. This book illustrates these three approaches, with chapters provided by some of the most important and provocative figures in the field. The first section is concerned with philosophical approaches to consciousness. One of the fundamental issues here
is that of subjective feeling or qualia. The second section focuses on approaches from cognitive neuroscience. Patients with different types of neurological problems, and new imaging techniques, provide rich sources of data for studying how consciousness relates to brain function. The third section includes computational approaches looking at the quantitative relationship between brain processes and conscious experience. Cognition, Computation, and Consciousness represents a uniquely integrated and current account of this most fascinating and intractable subject.Readership: Postgraduates and researchers in cognitive neuroscience, computer science, psychology, and philosophy.
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Edited by Masao Ito, Director-General, Frontier Research Program, RIKEN Institute of Physical & Chemical Research, Japan, Yasushi Miyashita, Department of Physiology, University of Tokyo School of Medicine, Toyko, Japan, and Edmund T. Rolls, Department of Experimental Psychology, Oxford University
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"In pursuing the editors' stated aim of understanding the brain mechanisms of consciousness, this book presents a valuable interdisciplinaryt perspective. An impressive body of research is fathered which, coupled with some insightful speculation offered by several authors, significantly clarifies many of the issues surrounding higher cognitive function ... it conveys effectively the rich diversity of research that informs the science of consciousness." - Brian L. Lancaster, Trends in Cognitive Sciences - Vol. 1, No. 4, July 1997
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M. Ito: Introduction
Philosophical Approaches
1.: O. Flanagan: Introduction to philosophical approaches to consciousness
2.: D. Dennett: Consciousness in human and robot mind
3.: J. Murata: Consciousness and the mind-body problem
Approaches from Cognitive Neuroscience
4.: M. Gazzaniga: Why can't I control my brain? Aspects of conscious experience
5.: E. Rolls: Brain mechanisms of vision, memory, and consciousness
6.: H. Barlow: Single neurons, communal goals, and consciousness
7.: M. Raichle: The development of automaticity - from conscious to nonconscious information processing in the human brain
8.: Y. Miyashita: Neuronal origin of visual imagery
9.: H. Tanaba: Awareness of memory deficit
10.: A. Yamadori: Body awareness anmd its disorders
11.: U. Bellugi and E. Klima: Language, modality, and the brain
12.: C. von der Malsburg: The coherence definition of consciousness
13.: J. Cowan: Neurodynamics and brain mechanisms
14.: M. Kawato: Bi-directional theory approach to consciousness
15.: R. Grotto and M. Virasoro: The computational role of conscious processing in a model of semantic memory
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