Vehicles : experiments in synthetic psychology
- Type:
- boek
- Titel:
- Vehicles : experiments in synthetic psychology
- Jaar:
- 1986
- Onderwerp:
- Psychologie
- Taal:
- Engels
- Uitgever:
- Cambridge, Mass : MIT, 1986
- Plaatsnummer:
- 159.9 BRAI (Kunstenbibliotheek)
- ISBN:
- 9780262521123
- Paginering:
- x, 152 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
- Samenvatting:
- Foreword / Michael A. Arbib -- Introduction: Let the problem of the mind dissolve in your mind -- Getting around -- Fear and aggression -- Love -- Values and special tastes -- Logic -- Selection, the impersonal engineer -- Concepts -- Space, things, and movements -- Shapes -- Getting ideas -- Rules and regularities -- Trains of thought -- Foresight -- Egotism and optimism -- Biological notes on the vehicles. The virtues of crossed connections -- The compound eye of the fly: reconstruction of continuity in the visual representation -- Olfactory orientation: control of behavior by symmetrical reins -- Orientation and object fixation in flies -- McCulloch-Pitts neurons and real neurons -- Evolution -- Memory -- In search of an engram: the anatomy of memory -- Maps and their use -- Shapes. The morphemes of visual perception -- An inborn category of acoustic form perception -- Structure of the cerebral cortex -- Cell assemblies: embodiments of ideas -- Threshold control and the pump of thoughts.
- Nota:
- boek
- Permalink:
- https://cageweb.be/catalog/kub01:000397916
