Higher Brain Functions
Recent Explorations of the Brain's Emergent Properties
Published on 1. January 1987
Book
Hardback
404 pages
978-0-471-01111-8 (ISBN)
Description
This thought-provoking book presents papers on higher brain functions, many contributed by the best minds in the field. Pushing at the frontiers of knowledge on the subject, these chapters develop original ideas first presented in a monograph by Evarts, Shinoda, and Wise, Neurophysiological Approaches to Higher Brain Functions (Wiley, 1984). Organized into three sections, Motor Aspects of Higher Brain Function; Effects of Preparatory Set; and Cerebral Organization, this volume explores important and interesting research directed toward questions concerning higher brain functions that lie beyond the traditional concerns of sensory and motor physiology.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Ill.
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 150 mm
Weight
765 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-471-01111-8 (9780471011118)
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Content
On Edward Vaughan Evarts; MOTOR ASPECTS OF HIGHER BRAIN FUNCTION: Neural Mechanisms of Motor Equivalence and Goal Achievement; Hierarchical Organization of Motor Programs; From Where Does the Motor Cortex Get Its Instructions? EFFECTS OF PREPARATORY SET: Loss of Set-Dependent Reactions During Cerebellar Dysfunction Causes Limb Instability; The Role of Behavioral Context in Decision Making by an Identified Interneuron in the Cricket; Neural Mechanisms of Motor Program Switching in Pleurobranchaea; Modulation of Cutaneous Sensory Transmission During Movement: Possible Mechanism and Biological Significance; Index.