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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... experience can affect learning.8 Hebb understood that his theory would undergo revision as more discoveries about ... experiences with clinical patients whose disorders of function, after nerve regeneration, persisted for years without ...
... Experience. About the same time as Sperry was fine-tuning his theory of nerve development in the early 1960s, a young British biologist, Peter Marler, became fascinated with songbirds. These birds learned their songs from their fathers ...
... experience , also drives its growth and the neuronal connections it subsequently forms . This is known as an activity - dependent process . 18 Annoyingly , it has recently been shown that Mom was right : I should have practiced piano ...
... experience can alter neural connectivity. If you have seen the movie Seabiscuit, you may remember when Seabiscuit was being retrained to start running at the sound of a bell. When the bell would sound, the horse would also get a thump ...
... experience , both the individual's past and his evolutionary past.25 For instance , learning the luminance of a ripe fruit hanging against a background of foliage would be more advantageous than its specific optical properties . In ...
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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