Perception, Consciousness, Memory
Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers (Verlag)
978-0-306-30776-8 (ISBN)
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Neurophysiology, too, has ceased to be an autonomous and self-governing field, and has come increasingly to rely on the help proffered by gen- eral psychology, epistemology, and logic, as well as exact sciences such as mathematics and physics. These border assaults have undoubtedly been beneficial for all involved. 9 Within the traditional boundaries of their stuffy principles most classical disciplines are today facing a methodological and epistemological crisis. The breaching of their walls may at least hold out some hope of a renaissance.
I Perception-Information Uptake of the Mind.- 1 The biology of perception.- Experimental techniques.- Generation and conduction of impulses.- Functional unity of analyzers.- Once more about the problem of methods.- Connection between stimulus and perception.- Physiological characteristics of perception.- 2 Perception of electromagnetic waves: vision.- The receiving end: the retina.- The thalamus-a central relay station.- The cortical decoding center.- The central control of vision.- The perception of patterns.- Visual perception of depth and distance.- 3 Perception of mechanical vibrations: hearing.- Structure of the auditory analyzer.- Coding and decoding in the auditory system.- Perception of acoustic configuration and direction of sounds.- Cerebral control in the auditory system.- 4 Perception of the mechanics of body position.- Structure and encoding activity of proprioceptors.- Cortical decoding of information on body position.- The gamma-efferent mechanism: central control of muscle receptors.- 5 Senses of indefinite classification: cutaneous and chemical receptors.- Physiological analysis of sensations arising from cutaneous receptors.- Encoding and decoding mechanisms in the sensation of taste and smell.- 6 Interoception -sensory function without perception.- Structure of the visceral sensory apparatus.- Encoding of interoceptive impulses.- Decoding of visceral impulses.- II The Energetics of Mental Processes: The Waking State, Sleep, Attention, and Consciousness.- 7 Alert neurons in the brain-waking and attention.- The brainstem reticular activating system.- Electroencephalography.- Attention and habituation.- 8 The sleeping brain.- Dreams.- Hypnosis.- 9 The conscious state and the unconscious.- Unconscious physiological processes.- The biology of the conscious state: an unknown field.- III The Experience of the Mind: Learning and Memory.- 10 Contiguity of cerebral processes: learning.- Type I. Learning by classical conditioning.- Type II: Instrumental (operant) learning.- The process of conditioning.- Structural organization of conditioned reflexes.- The negative reflection of learning: inhibition.- Learning in the living organism.- 11 The other aspect of cerebral plasticity: the fixing and storing of information.- Short-term (labile) memory.- Long-term (permanent) storing based on synaptic rearrangement-the first alternative.- Qualitative molecular changes-another alternative of long-term memory.- Further Readings.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.8.1980 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | biography |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Schulbuch / Wörterbuch |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Biopsychologie / Neurowissenschaften | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-306-30776-6 / 0306307766 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-306-30776-8 / 9780306307768 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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