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Informationen zum Autor M. R. Bennett is Professor of Neuroscience, University Chair and Scientific Director of the Brain and Mind Research Institute at the University of Sydney. He is the author of many papers and books on neuroscience as well as the history and philosophy of neuroscience, including The Idea of Consciousness (1997) and A History of the Synapse (2001). He is past President of the International Society for Autonomic Neuroscience, past President of the Australian Neuroscience Society, as well as the recipient of numerous awards for his research, including the Neuroscience Medal, the Ramaciotti Medal, the Macfarlane Burnet Medal and the Order of Australia.P. M. S. Hacker is an Emeritus Research Fellow of St John's College, Oxford, UK. He is the author of numerous books and articles on philosophy of the mind and philosophy of language, and is the leading authority on the philosophy of Wittgenstein. Among his many publications is the four-volume Analytical Commentary on Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations, and its epilogue, Wittgenstein's Place in Twentieth Century Analytic Philosophy. His most recent work is Human Nature: The Categorial Framework, the first volume of a trilogy on human nature.Together, M. R. Bennet and P. M. S. Hacker have authored the acclaimed Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience (Blackwell, 2003). Klappentext History of Cognitive Neuroscience documents the major neuroscientific experiments and theories over the last century and a half in the domain of cognitive neuroscience, and evaluates the cogency of the conclusions that have been drawn from them.* Provides a companion work to the highly acclaimed Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience - combining scientific detail with philosophical insights* Views the evolution of brain science through the lens of its principal figures and experiments* Addresses philosophical criticism of Bennett and Hacker's previous book* Accompanied by more than 100 illustrations Zusammenfassung In this companion work to the highly acclaimed Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience, the distinguished neurophysiologist M.R. Bennett and eminent philosopher P.M.S. Hacker return to the relationship between brain function and our psychological attributes. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of figures xii List of plates xvi Foreword by Sir Anthony Kenny (President of the British Academy, 1989-93) xvii Acknowledgements xx Introduction 1 1. Perceptions, Sensations and Cortical Function: Helmholtz to Singer 4 1.1 Visual Illusions and their Interpretation by Cognitive Scientists 4 1.1.1 Misdescription of visual illusions by cognitive scientists 9 1.2 Gestalt Laws of Vision 10 1.3 Split-Brain Commissurotomy; the Two Hemispheres may Operate Independently 11 1.3.1 Misdescription of the results of commissurotomy 13 1.3.2 Explaining the discoveries derived from commissurotomies 13 1.4 Specificity of Cortical Neurons 15 1.4.1 Cardinal cells 18 1.4.2 Misdescription of experiments leading to the conception of cardinal cells 20 1.5 Multiple Pathways Connecting Visual Cortical Modules 22 1.6 Mental Images and Representations 26 1.6.1 Misconceptions about images and representations 28 1.7 What and Where Pathways in Object Recognition and Maps 30 1.8 Misuse of the Term 'Maps' 31 1.9 The Binding Problem and 40 Hz Oscillations 32 1.9.1 Misconceptions concerning the existence of a binding problem 37 1.9.2 On the appropriate interpretation of synchronicity of neuronal firing in visual cortex 38 1.10 Images and Imagining 39 1.10.1 Misconceptions concerning images and imagining 41 2. Attention, Awareness and Cortical Function: Helmholtz to Raichle 44 2.1 The Concept of Attention 44 2.2 The Psychophysics of Attention 46 2.3 Neuroscience...
