Unlocking the Brain, 2 Volumes (2014) by Georg Northoff [Dr.Soc]

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Unlocking the Brain, 2 Volumes

Author: Georg Northoff

Vol. 1: Unlocking the Brain: Volume 1: Coding
Hardcover: 416 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press; 1 edition (December 9, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0199826986
ISBN-13: 978-0199826988

Vol. 2: Unlocking the Brain: Volume 2: Consciousness
Hardcover: 736 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press; 1 edition (December 9, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0199826994
ISBN-13: 978-0199826995
Format: PDF


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Neuroscience has made considerable progress in figuring out how the brain works. We know much about the molecular-genetic and biochemical underpinnings of sensory and motor functions, and recent neuroimaging work has opened the door to investigating the neural underpinnings of higher-order cognitive functions, such as memory, attention, and even free will. In these types of investigations, researchers apply specific stimuli to induce neural activity in the brain and look for the function in question. However, there may be more to the brain and its neuronal states than the changes in activity we induce by applying particular external stimuli.

In Volume 1 of Unlocking the Brain, Georg Northoff presents his argument for how the brain must code the relationship between its resting state activity and stimulus-induced activity in order to enable and predispose mental states and consciousness. By presupposing such a basic sense of neural code, the author ventures into different territories and fields of current neuroscience, including a comprehensive exploration of the features of resting state activity as distinguishable from and stimulus-induced activity; sparse coding and predictive coding; and spatial and temporal features of the resting state itself. This yields a unique and novel picture of the brain, and will have a major and lasting impact on neuroscientists working in neuroscience, psychiatry, and related fields.

In Volume 2 of Unlocking the Brain, Georg Northoff addresses consciousness by hypothesizing about the relationship between particular neuronal mechanisms and the various phenomenal features of consciousness. Northoff puts consciousness in the context of the resting state of the brain thereby delivering a new point of view to the debate that permits very interesting insights into the nature of consciousness. Moreover, he describes and discusses detailed findings from different branches of neuroscience including single cell data, animal data, human imaging data, and psychiatric findings. This yields a unique and novel picture of the brain, and will have a major and lasting impact on neuroscientists working in neuroscience, psychiatry, and related fields.
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