Sensory Perception [electronic resource] : Mind and Matter /
Barth, Friedrich G.editor.
Giampieri-Deutsch, Patrizia.editor.
Klein, Hans-Dieter.editor.
Sensory perception: mind and matter aims at a deeper understanding of the many facets of sensory perception and their relations to brain function and cognition. It is an attempt to promote the interdisciplinary discourse between the neurosciences and psychology, which speaks the language of cognitive experiences, and philosophy, which has been thinking about the meaning and origin of consciousness since its beginning. Leading experts contribute to such a discourse by informing the reader about exciting modern developments, both technical and conceptual, and by pointing to the big gaps still to be bridged. The various chapters provide access to scientific research on sensory perception and the mind from a broad perspective, covering a large spectrum of topics which range from the molecular mechanisms at work in sensory cells to the study of the unconscious and to neurophilosophy.
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Title Page; Copyright Page; Prologue; Table of Contents; I Basic mechanisms in sensory systems; Introductory remarks; 1. Sensory transduction; 2. Hearing; 3. Vision; 4. The binding problem; 1. Sensory cells and sensory organs; 1. Introduction; 2. How sensory cells work; 3. Touch, medium flow and mechanosensitive hairs; 4. From vibration detection to hearing; 5. Vision; 6. Olfaction; 7. Pain; 8. Synopsis; References; 2. Vertebrate hearing: origin, evolution and functions; 1. Introduction; 2. Origins of hearing organs; 3. The origin of middle ears and hearing organs of amniotes
4. The evolution of hearing organs of reptiles, birds and mammals5. Evolutionary changes in skull structure and the processing of cues to sound localisation; 6. Sound and behaviour; Outlook; References; 3. Principles of function in the visual system; 1. The visual pathway: an introduction; 2. The retina: a representation of local contrast; 2.1 The receptive field of retinal ganglion cells: what retinal ganglion cells 'see'; 2.2 The retina signals contrast; 3. Primary visual cortex: from spots to lines to ordered maps; 3.1 The receptive field of simple cells in primary visual cortex
3.2 The receptive field of a simple cell is constructed by the specific input from neurons with concentric receptive fields3.3 Orientation selective cells in primary visual cortex are organised in columns; 4. Extrastriate visual areas: from visual representations to perceptual representations; 5. Extrastriate visual areas: from correlations to causality; Conclusion; References; 4. What binds it all together? Synchronized oscillatory activity in normal and pathological cognition; 1. Introduction; 2. Current beliefs in neuroscience; 3. Bridges to the humanities
4. Epistemic considerations of cognitive neuroscience5. The origin of implicit knowledge and its role in cognition; 6. The conservative nature of evolution and the power of priors; 7. The mind-body problem; 8. The conundrum of awareness; 9. The distributed organization of the brain and wrong intuitions; 10. Distributed representations; 11. The binding problem; 12. The role of oscillatory synchronized activity; 13. The neuronal correlate of conscious processing; Outlook; References; II Evolutionaryepistemology; Introductory remarks; 1. Our knowledge of the world
2.An organismal view of sensory perception3. Cognition in insects; 4. Evolution of cognition; 5. Between biology and philosophy: our knowledge of the real world; 1. Introduction: our question; 2. Our answer: evolutionary epistemology; 3. Evolutionary epistemology as a naturalistic position; 4. Fundamental objections to evolutionary epistemology; 4.1 ""Does the concept of truth make sense?""; 4.2 ""ls the fit of our cognitive structures ascertainable without a vicious circle?""
4.3 ""How can cognitive structures be adapted to an environment that would have to be known to the organism before the organism might adapt to it?""
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Sensory perception: mind and matter aims at a deeper understanding of the many facets of sensory perception and their relations to brain function and cognition. It is an attempt to promote the interdisciplinary discourse between the neurosciences and psychology, which speaks the language of cognitive experiences, and philosophy, which has been thinking about the meaning and origin of consciousness since its beginning. Leading experts contribute to such a discourse by informing the reader about exciting modern developments, both technical and conceptual, and by pointing to the big gaps still to be bridged. The various chapters provide access to scientific research on sensory perception and the mind from a broad perspective, covering a large spectrum of topics which range from the molecular mechanisms at work in sensory cells to the study of the unconscious and to neurophilosophy.
Neurosciences.
Philosophy of mind.
Psychoanalysis.
Psychiatry.
Neurobiology.
Psychology.
Neurosciences.
Philosophy of Mind.
Psychoanalysis.
Psychiatry.
Neurobiology.
Psychology, general.