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Neural Substrates of Memory, Affective Functions, and Conscious Experience

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  1. C. Loeb

    1. Dipartimento Scienze Neurologiche e della Visione, Universitä di Genova, Genova, Italy

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  2. G. F. Poggio

    1. Mind/Brain Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA

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Part of the book series: Advances in Anatomy, Embryology and Cell Biology (ADVSANAT, volume 166)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-VI
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  2. Introduction

    • C. Loeb, G. F. Poggio
    Pages 1-5

  3. Memory

    • C. Loeb, G. F. Poggio
    Pages 7-31

  4. Affective Functions (Emotion, Mood, Feeling)

    • C. Loeb, G. F. Poggio
    Pages 33-49

  5. Conscious Experience

    • C. Loeb, G. F. Poggio
    Pages 51-81

  6. Conclusion

    • C. Loeb, G. F. Poggio
    Pages 83-85

  7. Summary

    • C. Loeb, G. F. Poggio
    Pages 87-90

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 91-111
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It is important, indeed necessary, we believe, that the study of the higher brain func­ tions be introduced by a brief account of the evolution of the philosophical thinking and scientific researches on cognition. The intuition that sensations and intelligence reside in the brain goes back to the Egyptians, in particular the Edwin Smith papyrus, probably dated between 2500 and 3000 b. c. , where the term "brain" appears for the first time and where there is a description of its coverings (meninges) and circumvolutions (Walsh 1994). The philosophical debate on brain and mind made its appearance in ancient l Greece and in subsequent centuries developed among the philosophers. The flow of sensations, the process of thinking, and the site of reason were localized in the brain, according to Alcmaeon of Croton (sixth to fifth centuries b. c. ) and subsequently Lattanzio, Alexander of Tralles, Democritus, Anaxagoras, and particularly Hip­ pocrates (460-377 b. c. ), who placed the soul, envisaged as a mental function, in the brain. Plato (427-347 b. c. ) believed that the brain provided the sensory experiences (hearing, sight, smell) and that from these were generated thinking and memory, and the act of thinking produced the truth or "episteme. " The formulation of the problem changes radically with Aristotle (384-322 b. c. ), who believed that the heart, and not the brain, was the site of passions, feelings, intelligence, and thought (Gross 1995).
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Dipartimento Scienze Neurologiche e della Visione, Universitä di Genova, Genova, Italy

    C. Loeb

  • Mind/Brain Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA

    G. F. Poggio

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Neural Substrates of Memory, Affective Functions, and Conscious Experience

  • Authors: C. Loeb, G. F. Poggio

  • Series Title: Advances in Anatomy, Embryology and Cell Biology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-59432-8

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer-Verlag GmbH, DE, part of Springer Nature 2002

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-43667-6Published: 20 August 2002

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-59432-8Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0301-5556

  • Series E-ISSN: 2192-7065

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VI, 111

  • Topics: Neurosciences

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