How Brains Make Up Their Minds
Published on 3. August 2000
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-0-7538-1068-2 (ISBN)
Description
This text charts the brain's mind, progressing from single nerve cells to co-operative nerve cell assemblies to the emergence of complex brain patterns. By drawing on recent developments in brain imaging and theories of chaos and non-linear dynamics it shows how brains create intention and meaning.
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Series
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Orion Publishing Co
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Illustrations
illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 197 mm
Width: 130 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
232 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7538-1068-2 (9780753810682)
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Walter Freeman is a professor in the Graduate School at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught Brain science for forty years. He is the author of more than 300 articles and two books, Mass Action in the Nervous System and Societies of Brains.