Who's in Charge?: Free Will and the Science of the BrainHarper Collins, 15 nov 2011 - 313 pagina's “Big questions are Gazzaniga’s stock in trade.” “Gazzaniga is one of the most brilliant experimental neuroscientists in the world.” “Gazzaniga stands as a giant among neuroscientists, for both the quality of his research and his ability to communicate it to a general public with infectious enthusiasm.” The author of Human, Michael S. Gazzaniga has been called the “father of cognitive neuroscience.” In his remarkable book, Who’s in Charge?, he makes a powerful and provocative argument that counters the common wisdom that our lives are wholly determined by physical processes we cannot control. His well-reasoned case against the idea that we live in a “determined” world is fascinating and liberating, solidifying his place among the likes of Oliver Sacks, Antonio Damasio, V.S. Ramachandran, and other bestselling science authors exploring the mysteries of the human brain. |
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... and capable of learning movement that was fully coordinated and synchronized with the adjacent limb . Roger Sperry , Weiss's student and later my mentor , summarized Weiss's widely accepted resonance principle as “ a scheme in.
... Sperry. How the connectivity, or wiring, took place was the question that fascinated him. He was skeptical of Weiss's explanation of nerve growth, where functional activity played a predominant role in the formation of neural circuitry ...
... Sperry concluded that “Whenever central fiber systems were disconnected and transplanted or just scrambled by rough surgical section, regrowth always led to orderly functional recovery and under conditions that precluded re-educative ...
... Sperry had shown that the opposite was true: Most cerebral networks are determined genetically by some chemical or physiochemical coding of pathways and connections. This is a hard- wired view in which the differentiation, migration ...
... Sperry challenged this conception and argued that the brain is built in a very specific way , genetically determined , and that we arrive from the baby factory mostly prewired . This explanation , however , while explaining most of the ...
Inhoudsopgave
Chapter Two The Parallel and Distributed Brain | |
Chapter Three The Interpreter | |
Chapter Four Abandoning the Concept of Free Will | |
Chapter Five The Social Mind | |
Chapter Six We Are the | |
Chapter Seven An Afterword | |
Index | |
Also by Michael S Gazzaniga | |
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