Studies of Mind and Brain
Neural Principles of Learning, Perception, Development, Cognition, and Motor Control
Authors: Grossberg, S.T.
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the mass of experimental data from current research in psychology and physiology, Grossberg proposes and develops a non-linear mathematics as a model for specific functions of mind and brain. He finds the classic approach to the mathematical modelling of mind and brain systematically inadequate. This inadequacy, he holds, arises from the attempt to describe adaptive systems in the mathematical language of 9 physics developed to describe "stationary", i. e. non-adaptive and non-evolving systems. In place of this linear mathematics, Grossberg develops his non-linear approach. His method is at once imaginative, rigorous, and philosophically significant: it is the thought experiment. It is here that the richness of his interdisciplinary mastery, and the power of his methods, constructions and proofs, reveal themselves. The method is what C. S. Peirce characterized as the method of abduction, or of hypothetical inference in theory construction: given the output of the system as a psychological phenomenon (e. g.
- Table of contents (13 chapters)
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How Does a Brain Build a Cognitive Code?
Pages 1-52
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Some Physiological and Biochemical Consequences of Psychological Postulates
Pages 53-64
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Classical and Instrumental Learning by Neural Networks
Pages 65-156
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Pattern Learning by Functional-Differential Neural Networks with Arbitrary Path Weights
Pages 157-193
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A Neural Theory of Punishment and Avoidance, II: Quantitative Theory
Pages 194-228
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Studies of Mind and Brain
- Book Subtitle
- Neural Principles of Learning, Perception, Development, Cognition, and Motor Control
- Authors
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- S.T. Grossberg
- Series Title
- Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
- Series Volume
- 70
- Copyright
- 1982
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Copyright Holder
- D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland
- eBook ISBN
- 978-94-009-7758-7
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-94-009-7758-7
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-90-277-1359-9
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-90-277-1360-5
- Series ISSN
- 0068-0346
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XVII, 662
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