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The mindful brain : cortical organization and the group-selective theory of higher brain function

Title
The mindful brain : cortical organization and the group-selective theory of higher brain function / Gerald M. Edelman, Vernon B. Mountcastle ; introduction by Francis O. Schmitt.
Author
Edelman, Gerald M.
Publication
Cambridge : MIT Press, ©1978.

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Additional Authors
  • Mountcastle, Vernon B.
  • Schmitt, Francis Otto, 1903-1995
  • Neurosciences Research Program.
Description
100 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Subject
  • Higher nervous activity
  • Neural networks (Neurobiology)
  • Cerebral cortex
  • Brain
  • brains
  • Brain > physiology
  • Cerebral Cortex > physiology
  • Higher Nervous Activity
  • Cerebral Cortex
  • Brain
Note
  • Based on papers presented at the fourth intensive study program of the Neurosciences Research Program, held in June 1977.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographies.
Contents
Introduction / Francis O. Schmitt -- An organizing principle for cerebral function: the unit module and the distributed system / Vernon b. Mountcastle -- Group selection and phasic reentrant signaling: a theory of higher brain function / Gerald M. Edelman.
ISBN
  • 026205020X
  • 9780262050203
LCCN
78004604
OCLC
  • ocm03771013
  • 3771013
  • SCSB-273486
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library