Häftad, Engelska, 2017

How the Mind Comes into Being

Introducing Cognitive Science from a Functional and Computational Perspective

Av Martin V. Butz, Esther F. Kutter

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum: 2017-01-12
Mått: 201 x 267 x 19 mm
Vikt: 966 g
Format: Häftad
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 416
Förlag: OUP OXFORD
ISBN: 9780198739692

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With a Diplom with honors in computer science with a minor in psychology (University of Würzburg, Germany, 08/2001) and a PhD in computer science (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA, 10/2004), Dr. Butz has been pursuing interdisciplinary, collaborative research in cognitive science for more than fifteen years. He has published more than fifty journal articles in various disciplinary and interdisciplinary journals including, for example, Neural Networks, Evolutionary Computation, Biological Cybernetics, Journal of Vision, Experimental Brain Research, PLoS ONE, and Psychological Review. Since 09/2011 Dr. Butz has been working as a full professor in Cognitive Modeling at the University of Tübingen, Germany.Esther Kutter has graduated with honors with a Master of Science in cognitive science (University of Tübingen, Germany, 09/2015). Her primary research focus lies in understanding how the brain represents the own body and how abstract concepts and categories are established and encoded purposefully for enabling intelligent, goal-directed behavior. She is currently continuing her research as a PhD student in neuroscience at the department of Animal Research at the University of Tübingen.

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`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

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