The Brain as a Tool: A Neuroscientist's Account

We don't perceive the world and then react to it. We learn to know it from our interactions with it. All inputs that reach the cerebral cortex about events in the brain, the body, or the world bring two messages: one is about these events, the other, travelling along a branch of that input, is...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: R W Guillery
Format: Printed Book
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2017
Subjects:
Perception. Neural networks (Neurobiology) Neurosciences.
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: pt. I How do we relate to the world?
  • 1. The role of the brain
  • 2. The pathways for perception
  • 3. The pathways for action
  • 4. The subcortical motor centres
  • pt. II My route to the thalamic gate
  • 5. Starting to study the brain
  • 6. The mamillothalamic pathways: my first encounter with the thalamus
  • 7. Comparative anatomical studies of the hypothalamus that led to studies of thalamic synapses
  • pt. III Arriving at the thalamic gate
  • 8. Defining the functional components of the thalamic gate
  • 9. Thalamic higher-order driver inputs as sensorimotor links
  • 10. The hierarchy of cortical monitors
  • pt. IV Higher cortical functions
  • 11. Relating the neural connections to actions and perceptions
  • 12. Interacting with the world
  • 13. The role of the thalamocortical hierarchy
  • 14. The neural origins of a sense of self with a brief note on free will.

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