Towards a Theoretical Neuroscience: from Cell Chemistry to Cognition

• Main Author: Coward, L Andrew. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Springer Series in Cognitive and Neural Systems ; 8
• Subjects: Medicine.; Neurosciences.; Neurochemistry.; Computer network architectures.; Psychology, clinical.; Biomedicine.; Biomedicine general.; Neuropsychology.; Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7107-9

An effective theoretical neuroscience must deliver an accurate, comprehensible and intuitively satisfying understanding of higher cognition in terms of anatomy, neuron physiology and neurochemistry. Massive simulations of assemblies of relatively realistic neurons do not necessarily contribute to un...

Table of Contents:

• The nature of scientific understanding
• Higher Cognition
• Brain Anatomy
• Neuron Physiology
• Intracellular message chains
• Major Anatomical Structures
• Constraints on the physical architecture of the brain
• Appearance of architectural constraints in the brain
• Memory and the organisation of experience
• Attention and working memory
• Understanding complex cognitive phenomena.-�Towards a Theoretical Neuroscience.