From Brain Dynamics to the Mind

Spatiotemporal Neuroscience
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-0-12-821935-5
Verlag: Elsevier Science

Buch, Englisch, 690 Seiten, Format (B × H): 214 mm x 276 mm, Gewicht: 1864 g

From Brain Dynamics to the Mind: Spatiotemporal Neuroscience explores how the self and consciousness is related to neural events. Sections in the book cover existing models used to describe the mind/brain problem, recent research on brain mechanisms and processes and what they tell us about the self, consciousness and psychiatric disorders. The book presents a spatiotemporal approach to understanding the brain and the implications for artificial intelligence, novel therapies for psychiatric disorders, and for ethical, societal and philosophical issues.

Pulling concepts from neuroscience, psychology and philosophy, the book presents a modern and complete look at what we know, what we can surmise, and what we may never know about the distinction between brain and mind.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Northoff, Georg

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Entwicklungspsychologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Neurowissenschaften, Kognitionswissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART I Brain dynamics
Section 1 Variability of the brain
1. The fluctuating brain-essentials of neural variability
2. Neural variability in rest and task states
3. Neural variability shapes perception and cognition
4. Neurodynamic mechanisms of neural variability

Section 2 Scale-freeness of the brain
5. From broccoli to the brain - Scale-free activity
6. From scale-free activity to temporo-spatial nestedness
7. Scale-free dynamic shapes perception and cognition
8. Scale-free activity – bridge between environment and brain

Section 3 Timescales of the brain
9. The brain’s inner time – intrinsic neural timescales
10. Intrinsic neural timescales mediate input processing
11. From Chronos and Kairos to the brain’s temporal receptive windows
12. Lessons from geology – from the human brain to artificial agents

Section 4 Synchrony of the brain
13. Synchrony in nature and brain
14. Entrainment – How the brain synchronizes with its environment
15. Global synchronization in the brain
16. Neural synchronization in fMRI and EEG/MEG - a methodological guide

Part II Dynamic layer model of brain

Section 1 Dynamic layers and the brain
17. Layers of the brain - An introduction
18. Background and foreground layers I: Scale-free stability versus oscillatory flexibility
19. Background and foreground layers II - nonlinear and asymmetric relationship

Section 2 From dynamic layers to cognition
20. Baseline model of cognition I: Distinction from dual model of cognition
21. Baseline model of cognition II: Spatiotemporal shaping of cognition and input processing
22. Dynamic capacities and cognition

Section 3 Dynamic layer model of brain vs other models of brain
23. Cognitive model and predictive coding
24. Intrinsic and inside-out models of brain
25. Brain and world - converging free energy principle and dynamic layer theory of brain

Part III Mind dynamics

Section 1 The self
26. The self and its intrinsic topography
27. The dynamic of self and its semantics
28. The self - psychologi

Über Autor(innen)

Northoff, Georg
Dr. Northoff is a neuroscientist and psychiatrist at the University of Ottawa. He has global outreach with world-wide collaborations and affiliations. The main focus of his research is on unravelling the connection of brain and mind, that is, how neuronal activity transforms into mental activity. He is world-wide known for his work on the neuroscience of self and consciousness, psychiatric disorders, and neurophilosophy. Additionally, he published several major books on major neuroscientific, psychiatric and neurophilosophical issues which have been translated into several languages.