ISBN:
9781134997855
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (577 pages)
Edition:
1st ed
Series Statement:
INNS Series of Texts, Monographs, and Proceedings Series
Parallel Title:
Print version Sztompka, Piotr Brain and Values : Is A Biological Science of Values Possible?
DDC:
303.44
Abstract:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Keynote -- Successful Intelligence: An Expanded Approach to Understanding Intelligence -- Foreword -- Ruminations on Sex and Death -- Memory and Value -- Introduction -- 1. Mixing Memory and Desire: Want and Will in Neural Modeling -- 2. On Brain and Value: Utility, Preference, Play and Creativity -- 3. Values, Goals and Utility in an Engineering - Based Theory of Mammalian Intelligence -- Preference -- 4. Stimulus Class Formation in Animals -- 5. Virtual Associative Networks: A Framework for Cognitive Modeling -- 6. Self-Organization of Cortical Information Processing -- 7. The Self-Organizing Map, A Possible Model of Brain Maps -- 8. Pragmatic Approach to Consciousness -- 9. Do All Dynamical Systems Have Memory? Implications of the Systematic Memory Hypothesis for Science and Society -- Utility -- 10. Preserved Semantic Memory in an Amnesic Child -- 11. The Role of Memory in the Brain, Values, and Choice -- 12. Transfer of Value in Simultaneous Discriminations: Implications for Cognitive and Social Processes -- 13. The Experience-Dependent Maturation of an Evaluative System in the Cortex -- 14. The Electricity of Touch: Detection and Measurement of Cardiac Energy -- 15. Readiness For Action -- Creativity -- 16. A Larmarckian Model of Creativity -- 17. Metaphor, Healing, and Creativity: Re-Framing as a Biological Phenomenon -- 18. Values, Agency, and the Theory of Quantum Vacuum Interaction -- 19. On Cognitive Maps, Vicarious Trial-and-Error, and Implusivity -- 20. Role of the Hippocampus in Learning and Memory: A Computational Analysis -- Afterword -- Commentary on J.L. McClelland -- McClelland Reactions to Pribramâs Commentary -- Commentary on the Relation Between Value and Amnesia -- List of Authors Cited
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