Representation and Brain (eBook)

Shintaro Funahashi (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: PDF

2009
368 Seiten
Springer Tokyo (Verlag)
9784431730217 (ISBN)

Infos

How is information represented in the nervous system? How is that information manipulated and processed? These are some of the more important and challenging questions for neuroscientists and psychologists today. Understanding brain functions, especially the neural mechanisms of higher cognitive processes such as thinking, reasoning, judging, and decision making, are the subjects covered by the research in the chapters of this book. They describe recent progress in four major research areas: visual functions, motor functions, memory functions, and prefrontal functions. Readers will obtain an excellent idea of how the nervous system internally represents the outer world, how the nervous system constructs images or schemas to perceive the outer world or react to the environment, and how the nervous system processes information using internal representations - topics that are at the forefront of brain science today.

Inhalt

Preface 5
Contents 10
Part I Visual Information Processing and Visual Image Production 12
1 Visual Perception of Contextual Effect and Its Neural Correlates 13
2 Multiple Mechanisms of Top-Down Processing in Vision 31
3 Invariant Representations of Objects in Natural Scenes in the Temporal Cortex Visual Areas 56
4 Representation of Objects and Scenes in Visual Working Memory in Human Brain 112
Part II Motor Image and Body Schema 129
5 Action Representation in the Cerebral Cortex and the Cognitive Functions of the Motor System 130
6 Representation of Bodily Self in the Multimodal Parieto-Premotor Network 157
7 Neuronal Correlates of the Simulation, Execution, and Perception of Limb Movements 183
8 Neural Basis of Saccadic Decision Making in the Human Cortex 204
Part III Memory as an Internal Representation 222
9 Neural Representations Supporting Spatial Navigation and Memory 223
10 How Can We Detect Ensemble Coding by Cell Assembly? 253
11 Representation of Numerical Information in the Brain 275
Part IV Manipulation of Internal Representation 288
12 Prefrontal Representations Underlying Goal-Directed Behavior 289
13 The Prefrontal Cortex as a Model System to Understand Representation and Processing of Information 313
14 Large-Scale Network Dynamics in Neurocognitive Function 339
Subject Index 361

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.4.2009
• Zusatzinfo: XII, 368 p. 101 illus., 28 illus. in color.
• Verlagsort: Tokyo
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Neurologie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Studium
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: action • brain • Cortex • Information • Information Processing • Internal representation • Memory • Mental image • nervous system • neural mechanisms • Neuroscience • perception • Reasoning • Thinking • Top-down process • Visual information processing
• ISBN-13: 9784431730217 / 9784431730217