The Brain's Sense of Movement

Informationen zum Autor Alain Berthoz is Emeritus Professor at the Collège de France and Director of the Laboratory of Physiology of Perception and Action at the CNRS. Klappentext Berthoz describes how human beings on earth perceive and control bodily movement. In his view, the brain acts like a simulator that is constantly inventing models to project onto the changing world, models that are corrected by steady, minute feedback from the world. Zusammenfassung Berthoz describes how human beings on earth perceive and control bodily movement. In his view! the brain acts like a simulator that is constantly inventing models to project onto the changing world! models that are corrected by steady! minute feedback from the world.

Product details

• Authors: Alain Berthoz, Berthoz Alain
• Assisted by: Giselle Weiss (Translation), Weiss Giselle (Translation)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.09.2002
• EAN: 9780674009806
• ISBN: 978-0-674-00980-6
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 144 mm x 226 mm x 23 mm
• Series: Perspectives in Cognitive Neuroscience
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Neuroscience, MEDICAL / Neurology, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Neurology & clinical neurophysiology, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Neurosciences, Neurology and clinical neurophysiology, Cognition and cognitive psychology