Neural Mechanisms of Visual Awareness: A Linking PropositionBrain and Mind - Tập 1 - Trang 385-406 - 2000
Victor A.F. Lamme
Recent developments in psychology and neuroscience suggest away to link the mental phenomenon of visual awareness with specific neural processes. Here, it is argued that the feed-forward activation of cells in any area of the brain is not sufficient to generate awareness, but that recurrent processing, mediated by horizontal and feedback connections is necessary. In linking awareness with its neur...... hiện toàn bộ
Nurture, Nature, and Caring: We Are Not Prisoners of Our GenesBrain and Mind - Tập 3 - Trang 9-52 - 2002
Riane Eisler, Daniel S. Levine
This article develops a theory for how caringbehavior fits into the makeup of humans andother mammals. Biochemical evidence for threemajor patterns of response to stressful orotherwise complex situations is reviewed. There is the classic fight-or-flight response;the dissociative response, involving emotionalwithdrawal and disengagement; and the bondingresponse, a variant of which Taylor et al.(200...... hiện toàn bộ
Pain and Folk TheoryBrain and Mind - Tập 1 - Trang 209-222 - 2000
C. Richard Chapman, Yoshio Nakamura, Christopher N. Chapman
Pain is not a primitive sensory event but rather a complexperception and a process by which a person interacts with theinternal and external environments, constructs meaning, andengages in action. Because folk beliefs are central to meaning,folk concepts of pain play multiple causal roles in a painpatient's interaction with health care providers and others.In every case, the notion of pain is link...... hiện toàn bộ
Response to Bechtel and LloydBrain and Mind - Tập 3 - Trang 261-273 - 2002
William R. Uttal
The field of cognitive imaging is explodingboth in terms of the amount of our scientificresources dedicated to it and the associatedpublication rate. However, all of this effortis based on a critical question – Do cognitivemodules exist? Both of the reviewers of my book(Uttal, 2001) and I agree that this questionhas not yet been satisfactorily answered and,depending on the ultimate answer, the cog...... hiện toàn bộ
Interpreting the Internal Structure of a Connectionist Model of the Balance Scale TaskBrain and Mind - Tập 4 - Trang 129-149 - 2003
Michael R. W. Dawson, Corinne Zimmerman
One new tradition that has emerged from early research on autonomous robots is embodied cognitive science. This paper describes the relationship between embodied cognitive science and a related tradition, synthetic psychology. It is argued that while both are synthetic, embodied cognitive science is antirepresentational while synthetic psychology still appeals to representations. It is further arg...... hiện toàn bộ
The AI DebateBrain and Mind - Tập 2 - Trang 235-237 - 2001
Frank Jackson
IntroductionBrain and Mind - Tập 2 - Trang 1-4 - 2001
G. Keith Humphrey, Randolph Blake