Brains Top Down: Is Top-down Causation Challenging Neuroscience?
- ISBN-10
- 9814412465
- ISBN-13
- 9789814412469
- Category
- Science
- Pages
- 365
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013
- Publisher
- World Scientific
- Authors
- Marc Jeannerod, Gennaro Auletta, Ivan Colage
Description
This book presents an overview of some of the main schools of thought as well as current research trends in neuroscience. It focuses on neural top-down causation applied to hot topics like consciousness, emotions, the self and the will, action and behavior, neural networks, brains and society.
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