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Unlocking the Brain - Volume 1: Coding (Hardcover)
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Unlocking the Brain - Volume 1: Coding (Hardcover)
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Neuroscience has made considerable progress in figuring out how the
brain works. We know much about the molecular-genetic and
biochemical underpinnings of sensory and motor functions, and
recent neuroimaging work has opened the door to investigating the
neural underpinnings of higher-order cognitive functions, such as
memory, attention, and even free will. In these types of
investigations, researchers apply specific stimuli to induce neural
activity in the brain and look for the function in question.
However, there may be more to the brain and its neuronal states
than the changes in activity we induce by applying particular
external stimuli.
In Volume 1 of Unlocking the Brain, Georg Northoff presents his
argument for how the brain must code the relationship between its
resting state activity and stimulus-induced activity in order to
enable and predispose mental states and consciousness. By
presupposing such a basic sense of neural code, the author ventures
into different territories and fields of current neuroscience,
including a comprehensive exploration of the features of resting
state activity as distinguishable from and stimulus-induced
activity; sparse coding and predictive coding; and spatial and
temporal features of the resting state itself. This yields a unique
and novel picture of the brain, and will have a major and lasting
impact on neuroscientists working in neuroscience, psychiatry, and
related fields.
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