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Neuroscience of Rule-Guided Behavior (Hardcover, New)
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Neuroscience of Rule-Guided Behavior (Hardcover, New)
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Neuroscience of Rule-Guided Behavior brings together, for the first
time, the experiments and theories that have created the new
science of rules. Rules are central to human behavior, but until
now the field of neuroscience lacked a synthetic approach to
understanding them. How are rules learned, retrieved from memory,
maintained in consciousness and implemented? How are they used to
solve problems and select among actions and activities? How are the
various levels of rules represented in the brain, ranging from
simple conditional ones if a traffic light turns red, then stop to
rules and strategies of such sophistication that they defy
description? And how do brain regions interact to produce
rule-guided behaviour? These are among the most fundamental
questions facing neuroscience, but until recently there was
relatively little progress in answering them. It was difficult to
probe brain mechanisms in humans, and expert opinion held that
animals lacked the capacity for such high-level behaviour. However,
rapid progress in neuroimaging technology has allowed investigators
to explore brain mechanisms in humans, while increasingly
sophisticated behavioral methods have revealed that animals can and
do use high-level rules to control their behavior. The resulting
explosion of information has led to a new science of rules, but it
has also produced a plethora of overlapping ideas and terminology
and a field sorely in need of synthesis. In this book, Silvia Bunge
and Jonathan Wallis bring together the worlds leading cognitive and
systems neuroscientists to explain the most recent research on
rule-guided behavior. Their work covers a wide range of disciplines
and methods, including neuropsychology, functional magnetic
resonance imaging, neurophysiology, electroencephalography,
neuropharmacology, near-infrared spectroscopy, and transcranial
magnetic stimulation. This unprecedented synthesis is a must-read
for anyone interested in how complex behaviour is controlled and
organized by the brain.
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