The Entangled Brain
By Luiz Pessoa
By Luiz Pessoa
By Luiz Pessoa
By Luiz Pessoa
Category: Science & Technology | Psychology
Category: Science & Technology | Psychology
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$40.00
Nov 15, 2022 | ISBN 9780262544603
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Nov 15, 2022 | ISBN 9780262372114
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Praise
“Luiz Pessoa’s The Entangled Brain should be welcomed as an equally informed and bold endeavor. . . Thanks to its engaging style, Pessoa’s book is ultimately aimed at all readers who are interested in how the brain really works.”
—Cognitive Neuropsychiatry
“The Entangled Brain is part survey, part manifesto. It provides an interesting and valuable overview of recent research on emotion, learning, extinction learning, the evolution of the human brain, and other phenomena, interspersed with pleas for a different approach to studying the mind and brain…Pessoa’s guiding theme is easily stated: neuroscience has been dominated by a view that the brain can be understood via an analysis into small, local functional units, but the actual functions that cause behavior are highly distributed and a proper understanding of them will not be possible with a reductive local account.”
—Metascience
“Pessoa’s enthusiasm for his ‘favourite topic’ permeates the text and makes reading a pleasure….Throughout this iconoclastic volume, the concept of the brain as a sophisticated complex system is illuminated by real life examples….[Pessoa] has certainly achieved his aim.”
—The British Neuroscience Association
Table Of Contents
Preface ix
1 From One Area at a Time to Networked Systems 1
2 Learning a Bit of Anatomy 15
3 The Minimal Brain: Building Simple Defenses and Seeking Rewards 31
4 What Do Brain Areas Do? 47
5 Emotion and Motivation: The Subcortical Players 65
6 Emotion and Motivation: The Cortex Comes to the Party 93
7 Cognition and the Prefrontal Cortex 111
8 Complex Systems: The Science of Interacting Parts 129
9 500 Million Years of Evolution 145
10 The Big Network: Putting Things Together 167
11 Unlearning Fear 193
12 It’s All about Complex, Entangled Networks 215
Glossary 231
Notes 235
References 247
Index 261
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