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Towards a Theoretical Neuroscience: from Cell Chemistry to Cognition

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  • Reviews of current knowledge in major areas of psychology, neuroanatomy, neurophysiology and neurochemistry
  • Review of theoretical constraints on brain architecture imposed by natural selection
  • Understanding of memory, attention and complex cognitive phenomena in terms of neuroanatomy, neurophysiology and neurochemistry
  • Additional Free Web lecture course based on this book available at www.understandinghighercognition.com.
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Springer Series in Cognitive and Neural Systems (SSCNS, volume 8)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
  2. The Nature of Scientific Understanding

    • L. Andrew Coward
    Pages 1-8
  3. Higher Cognition

    • L. Andrew Coward
    Pages 9-30
  4. Brain Anatomy

    • L. Andrew Coward
    Pages 31-51
  5. Neuron Physiology

    • L. Andrew Coward
    Pages 53-95
  6. Intracellular Message Chains

    • L. Andrew Coward
    Pages 97-130
  7. Major Anatomical Structures

    • L. Andrew Coward
    Pages 131-205
  8. Memory and the Organisation of Experience

    • L. Andrew Coward
    Pages 289-329
  9. Attention and Working Memory

    • L. Andrew Coward
    Pages 331-347
  10. Understanding Complex Cognitive Phenomena

    • L. Andrew Coward
    Pages 349-388
  11. Towards a Theoretical Neuroscience

    • L. Andrew Coward
    Pages 389-393
  12. Back Matter

    Pages 395-443

About this book

The book explains how to understand cognition in terms of brain anatomy, physiology and chemistry, using an approach adapted from techniques for understanding complex electronic systems. These techniques create hierarchies of information process based descriptions on different levels of detail, where higher levels contain less information and can therefore describe complete cognitive phenomena, but are more approximate. The nature of the approximations are well understood, and more approximate higher level descriptions can therefore be mapped to more precise detailed descriptions of any part of a phenomenon as required. Cognitive phenomena, the anatomy and connectivity of major brain structures, neuron physiology, and cellular chemistry are reviewed. Various cognitive tasks are described in terms of information processes performed by different major anatomical structures. These higher level descriptions are selectively mapped to more detailed physiological and chemical levels.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Australian National University Research School of Computer Science, Canberra, Australia

    L Andrew Coward

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Softcover Book USD 169.99
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