Mystery of the Mind : : A Critical Study of Consciousness and the Human Brain / / Wilder Penfield.
In the past fifty years scientists have begun to discover how the human brain functions. In this book Wilder Penfield, whose work has been at the forefront of such research, describes the current state of knowledge about the brain and asks to what extent recent findings explain the action of the min...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015] ©1975 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (158 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1. Sherringtonian Alternatives-Two Fundamental Elements or Only One?
- 2. To Consciousness the Brain Is Messenger
- 3. Neuronal Action within the Brain
- 4. Sensory and Voluntary-Motor Organization
- 5. The Indispensable Substratum of Consciousness
- 6. The Stream of Consciousness Electrically Reactivated
- 7. Physiological Interpretation of an Epileptic Seizure
- 8. An Early Conception of Memory Mechanisms - And a Late Conclusion
- 9. The Interpretive Cortex
- 10. An Automatic Sensory-Motor Mechanism
- 11. Centrencephalic Integration and Coordination
- 12. The Highest Brain-Mechanism
- 13. The Stream of Consciousness
- 14. Introspection by Patient and Surgeon
- 15. Doubling of Awareness
- 16. Brain as Computer, Mind as Programmer
- 17. What the Automatic Mechanism Can Do
- 18. Recapitulation
- 19. Relationship of Mind to Brain-A Case Example
- 20. Man's Being-A Choice Between Two Explanations
- 21. Comprehensibility
- Reflections
- Afterthoughts by the Author
- Bibliography
- Index
- Backmatter