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The Organisation of Mind (Paperback)
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Brain imaging has been immensely valuable in showing us how the
mind works. However, many of our ideas about how the mind works
come from disciplines like experimental psychology, artificial
intelligence and linguistics, which in their modern form date back
to the computer revolution of the 1940s, and are not strongly
linked to the subdisciplines of biomedicine. Cognitive science and
neuroscience thus have very separate intellectual roots, and very
different styles. Unfortunately, these two areas of knowledge have
not been well integrated as far as higher mental processes are
concerned. So how can these two be reconciled in order to develop a
full understanding of the mind and brain? This is the focus of this
landmark book from leaders in the field. Coming more than two
decades after Shallice's classic 'From neuropsychology to mental
structure', 'The Organisation of Mind' establishes a strong
historical, empirical, and theoretical basis for cognitive
neuroscience. The book starts by reviewing the history and
intellectual roots of the field, looking at some of the researchers
who guided and influenced it. The basic principles - theoretical
and empirical and the inferential relation between them - are then
considered with particular emphasis being placed on inferences to
the organisation of the cognitive system from two empirical
methodologies - neuropsychology and functional imaging. The core
skeleton of the cognitive system is then analysed for the areas
most critical for understanding rational thought. In the third
section the components of simple cognitive acts are described,
namely semantic processing, working memory, and cognitive
operations. In the final section, more complex higher-level
modulating processes are considered, including, supervisory
processing, episodic memory, consciousness and problem-solving.
This will be a seminal publication on the interface between the
brain sciences and the cognitive sciences and essential reading for
all students and researchers in related fields.
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