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Representation and Brain

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Editors:
  1. Shintaro Funahashi

    1. Kokoro Research Center, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XII
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  2. Visual Information Processing and Visual Image Production

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Visual Perception of Contextual Effect and Its Neural Correlates

      • Yoshimichi Ejima, Shigeko Takahashi, Hiroki Yamamoto, Naokazu Goda
      Pages 3-20

    3. Multiple Mechanisms of Top-Down Processing in Vision

      • Giorgio Ganis, Stephen M. Kosslyn
      Pages 21-45

    4. Invariant Representations of Objects in Natural Scenes in the Temporal Cortex Visual Areas

      • Edmund T. Rolls
      Pages 47-102

    5. Representation of Objects and Scenes in Visual Working Memory in Human Brain

      • Jun Saiki
      Pages 103-119

  3. Motor Image and Body Schema

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 121-121
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    2. Action Representation in the Cerebral Cortex and the Cognitive Functions of the Motor System

      • Leonardo Fogassi
      Pages 123-149

    3. Representation of Bodily Self in the Multimodal Parieto-Premotor Network

      • Akira Murata, Hiroaki Ishida
      Pages 151-176

    4. Neuronal Correlates of the Simulation, Execution, and Perception of Limb Movements

      • Eiichi Naito
      Pages 177-197

    5. Neural Basis of Saccadic Decision Making in the Human Cortex

      • Samson Freyermuth, Jean-Philippe Lachaux, Philippe Kahane, Alain Berthoz
      Pages 199-216

  4. Memory as an Internal Representation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 217-217
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    2. Neural Representations Supporting Spatial Navigation and Memory

      • Joel E. Brown, Jeffrey S. Taube
      Pages 219-248

    3. How Can We Detect Ensemble Coding by Cell Assembly?

      • Yoshio Sakurai
      Pages 249-270

    4. Representation of Numerical Information in the Brain

      • Andreas Nieder
      Pages 271-283

  5. Manipulation of Internal Representation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 285-285
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    2. Prefrontal Representations Underlying Goal-Directed Behavior

      • Jonathan D. Wallis
      Pages 287-310

    3. The Prefrontal Cortex as a Model System to Understand Representation and Processing of Information

      • Shintaro Funahashi
      Pages 311-336

    4. Large-Scale Network Dynamics in Neurocognitive Function

      • Anthony Randal McIntosh
      Pages 337-358

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 359-366
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About this book

How is information represented in the nervous system? How is that information manipulated and processed? These are some of the more important and challenging questions for neuroscientists and psychologists today. Understanding brain functions, especially the neural mechanisms of higher cognitive processes such as thinking, reasoning, judging, and decision making, are the subjects covered by the research in the chapters of this book. They describe recent progress in four major research areas: visual functions, motor functions, memory functions, and prefrontal functions. Readers will obtain an excellent idea of how the nervous system internally represents the outer world, how the nervous system constructs images or schemas to perceive the outer world or react to the environment, and how the nervous system processes information using internal representations - topics that are at the forefront of brain science today.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Kokoro Research Center, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

    Shintaro Funahashi

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Representation and Brain

  • Editors: Shintaro Funahashi

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-73021-7

  • Publisher: Springer Tokyo

  • eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Tokyo 2007

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-4-431-73020-0Published: 10 August 2007

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-4-431-99825-9Published: 10 October 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-4-431-73021-7Published: 22 April 2009

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 368

  • Number of Illustrations: 73 b/w illustrations, 28 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Neurosciences, Cognitive Psychology, Behavioral Sciences, Psychiatry

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