Action, perception and the brain: adaptation and cephalic expression

Action, perception and the brain: adaptation and cephalic expression

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A study of contemporary philosophical and neuroscientific perspectives on therelation of action, perception, and cognition as it is lived in embodied and socially embedded experience. JAY SCHULKIN Research Professor, Department of Neuroscience at Georgetown University, USA. He has received a number of awards including a MacArthur Foundation post-doctoral award through the University of Pennsylvania, USA, a Research Career Development Award from the National Institutes of Mental Health, and a Program Project Award from the National Institute of Mental Health for work done at the University of Pennsylvania, Rockefeller University, USA,and Georgetown University. This work was centered on the cephalic and behavioural regulation of the internal milieu. INDICE: Preface - Notes on Contributors - Introduction - The Slow Process:A Hypothetical Cognitive Adaptation for Distributed Cognitive Networks; 'M.Donald - 'Social Cognition and Cortical Function: An Evolutionary Perspective;' S.Shultz' & 'R.I.M.Dunbar - Homo Heuristicus' and the Bias-Variance Dilemma; 'H.Brighton' & 'G. Gigerenzer - 'Action, Embodied Meaning, and Thought; 'M.Johnson - 'Neo-Pragmatism and Enactive Intentionality; 'S.Gallagher' & 'K.Miyahara- 'Minds, Things, and Materiality; 'M.Wheeler - 'Contributions of Mirror Mechanisms to the Embodiment of Cognition; 'A.M.Glenberg - 'The Neural Systems Involved in Motor Cognition and Social Contact; 'S.Hétu' & 'P.L.Jackson - 'Actionand Cephalic Expression: Hermeneutical Pragmatism; 'J.Schulkin' & 'P.Heelan -'References - Index -

  • ISBN: 978-0-230-28258-2
  • Editorial: Palgrave MacM
  • Encuadernacion: Cartoné
  • Páginas: 256
  • Fecha Publicación: 30/12/2011
  • Nº Volúmenes: 1
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