Brain imaging : what it can (and cannot) tell us about consciousness /
The ability to image brain processes non-invasively has created a flood of experiments that fall into two categories - aiming to localize brain performance of abstractions like love, memory or intention - or to identify neuronal activities in response to observable behaviour.
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2013.
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Table of Contents:
- Mind and matter
- Biophysics: An empirical science
- A philosophical background
- Neuroscience: A multidisciplinary, multilevel field
- The state of cognitive neuroscience: An over-optimistic theory
- Brain energy and the work of neurotransmission
- Global brain energy supports the state of consciousness
- Incremental brain energies and the acts of consciousness. A life in humanities and science.