Research Catalog

Title

Brain and values : is a biological science of values possible / edited by Karl H. Pribram.

Author

Appalachian Conference on Behavioral Neurodynamics (5th : 1996 : Radford, Va.)

Publication

Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1998.

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Additional Authors

• Pribram, Karl H., 1919-2015.
• International Neural Network Society.

Description

568 pages : illustrations; 28 cm

Subjects

• Neuropsychology
• Nerve Net > physiology
• Congress
• Brain > physiology
• Values > Congresses
• Neuropsychology > Congresses
• Brain > Congresses
• Models, Neurological
• Mental Processes > physiology

Genre/Form

Congress.

Note

• "Proceedings of the Fifth Appalachian Conference on Behavioral Neurodynamics."
• "International Neural Network Society"--P. [4] of cover.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Keynote: Successful Intelligence: An Expanded Approach to Understanding Intelligence / Robert J. Sternberg -- Foreword: Ruminations on Sex and Death; Memory and Value / Karl H. Pribram -- 1. Mixing Memory and Desire: Want and Will in Neural Modeling / Bruce J. MacLennan -- 2. On Brain and Value: Utility, Preference, Play and Creativity / Karl H. Pribram -- 3. Values, Goals and Utility in an Engineering-Based Theory of Mammalian Intelligence / Paul Werbos -- 4. Stimulus Class Formation in Animals / Thomas R. Zentall -- 5. Virtual Associative Networks: A Framework for Cognitive Modeling / Yan M. Yufik -- 6. Self-Organization of Cortical Information Processing / Thomas P. Vogl, Kim T. Blackwell and Daniel L. Alkon -- 7. The Self-Organizing Map, A Possible Model of Brain Maps / Teuvo Kohonen -- 8. Pragmatic Approach to Consciousness / Henry Stapp --
• 9. Do All Dynamical Systems Have Memory? Implications of the Systematic Memory Hypothesis for Science and Society / Gary E. Schwartz and Linda G. Russek -- 10. Preserved Semantic Memory in an Amnesic Child / Charles A. Ahern, Frank B. Wood and Christine M. McBrien -- 11. The Role of Memory in the Brain, Values, and Choice / Bennet B. Murdock -- 12. Transfer of Value in Simultaneous Discriminations: Implications for Cognitive and Social Processes / Thomas R. Zentall and Lou R. Sherburne -- 13. The Experience-Dependent Maturation of an Evaluative System in the Cortex / Allan N. Schore -- 14. The Electricity of Touch: Detection and Measurement of Cardiac Energy / Rolin McCraty, Mike Atkinson and Dana Tomasion [et al.] -- 15. Readiness For Action / Luder Deeke and Wilfried Lang -- 16. A Larmarckian Model of Creativity / Robert J. Sternberg -- 17. Metaphor, Healing, and Creativity: Re-Framing as a Biological Phenomenon / Sam Leven --
• 18. Values, Agency, and the Theory of Quantum Vacuum Interaction / Raymond T. Bradley -- 19. On Cognitive Maps, Vicarious Trial-and-Error, and Impulsivity / Abram Amsel -- 20. Role of the Hippocampus in Learning and Memory: A Computational Analysis / J. L. McClelland -- Commentary on J. L. McClelland / Karl H. Pribram -- McClelland Reactions to Pribram's Commentary / J. L. McClelland -- Commentary on the Relation Between Value and Amnesia / Karl Pribram.

ISBN

0805831541 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

98017067

OCLC

• 38898066
• ocm38898066

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries