Brains top down
Subtitle: is top-down causation challenging neuroscience?
By: [edited by] Gennaro Auletta, Ivan Colagè, Marc Jeannerod
Publisher: World Scientific
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New Jersey
Language: eng
Number of pages: 365
ISBN-13: 9789814412452
Subjects: Brain; Physiology; Consciousness
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : consciousness as a top-down causal agency / G. Auletta and M. Jeannerod; title: A constraining role of the mind? / G. Auletta; title: Neurons, schemas, persons, and society revisited / M.A. Arbib; title: The neural basis of consciousness and the issue of downward causation / notes by G. Auletta and I. Colagè on Damasio's contribution; title: The functional role of conscious will in voluntary action : cause or consequence? : a position paper / M. Jeannerod; title: Can the self be considered a cause? / J.J. Sanguineti; title: The brain : a highly distributed self-organizing system : who has the initiative? /  W. Singer; title: Two views of brain functioning / M. Raichle; title: Top-down causation in the brain : promises for cognitive psychology and challenges for research / C.R. Crowell ... [et al.]; title: Consciousness and the global neuronal workspace hypothesis : from bottom-up to top-down causation and vice versa / G. Auletta and I. Colagè; title: Computation, representation, and physicalism / P. Jacob; title: Overall discussion; title: Postface : M. Jeannerod (1935- 2011) : a personal note / G. Rizzolatti.