How the Mind Comes into Being
Introducing Cognitive Science from a Functional and Computational Perspective
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 12 January 2017
- ISBN 9780198739692
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages416 pages
- Size 267x201x19 mm
- Weight 966 g
- Language English 70
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Short description:
How is it that we can think highly abstract thoughts, seemingly fully detached from the actual, physical reality? This book offers an interdisciplinary introduction to embodied cognitive science, addressing the question of how the mind comes into being while actively interacting with and learning from the environment by means of the body.
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More than 2000 years ago Greek philosophers were pondering the puzzling dichotomy between our physical bodies and our seemingly non-physical minds. Yet even today, it remains puzzling how our mind controls our body, and vice versa, how our body shapes our mind. How is it that we can think highly abstract thoughts, seemingly fully detached from the actual, physical reality?
This book offers an interdisciplinary introduction to embodied cognitive science, addressing the question of how the mind comes into being while actively interacting with and learning from the environment by means of the own body. By pursuing a functional and computational perspective, concrete answers are provided about the fundamental mechanisms and developing structures that must bring the mind about, taking into account insights from biology, neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy as well as from computer science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.
The book provides introductions to the most important challenges and available computational approaches on how the mind comes into being. The book includes exercises, helping the reader to grasp the material and understand it in a broader context. References to further studies, methodological details, and current developments support more advanced studies beyond the covered material.
While the book is written in advanced textbook style with the primary target group being undergraduates in cognitive science and related disciplines, readers with a basic scientific background and a strong interest in how the mind works will find this book intriguing and revealing.
`This is a very timely book. It rises to the challenge of providing a basic introduction to cognitive neuroscience, while being true to the fact that the brain is embodied. This book beautifully articulates intriguing puzzles about how our mind controls the body and how our body shapes the mind. In short, this book is a brilliant and accessible synthesis'
Professor Karl J. Friston FMedSci, FRBS, FRS Wellcome Principal Fellow and Honorary Consultant in Neuropsychiatry Scientific Director: Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging Institute of Neurology, UCL
Table of Contents:
Embodied Cognitive Science
Cognitive Science is Interdisciplinary
Cognition is Embodied
Cognitive Development and Evolution
Behavior is Reward-Oriented
Behvioral Flexibility and Anticipatory Behavior
Brain Basics from a Computational Perspective
Primary Visual Perception from the Bottom Up
Top-Down Visual Predictions Determine Perceptions
Multisesnory Interactions
Attention
Decision Making, Motor Control, and Concept Formation
Language, concepts, and abstract thought
Retrospection and future perspectives
