The Mindful Brain: Cortical Organization and the Group-selective Theory of Higher Brain Function (book)
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| Author | Mountcastle, Vernon B., Edelman, Gerald M. |
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| Language | English |
| Subject | Brain-physiology, Cerebral cortex-physiology |
| Publisher | The MIT Press |
Publication date | 1978 |
| Pages | 100 |
| ISBN | 978-0-262-55007-9 Search this book on  . |
The Mindful Brain: Cortical Organization and the Group-selective Theory of Higher Brain Function[1] is a book by Vernon B. Mountcastle and Gerald M. Edelman about the organization and function of brain. Originally published by The MIT Press in 1978, the book originated in a series of lectures, known as the "Fourth Intensive Study Program of the Neurosciences Research Program", that was held at Boulder Colorado between June 20, 1977 and July 1, 1977. The book is comprised of two papers - the first by Mountcastle, titled An Organizing Principle For Cerebral Function: The Unit Module And The Distributed System,[2] describes the columnar structure of the cortical groups within the neocortex; In the second paper, Group Selection and Phasic Reentrant Signalling: A Theory of Higher Brain Function,[3] Edelman develops his argument for selective processes operating among degenerate primary repertoires of neuronal groups.
The Mindful Brain would introduce two powerful, and at the time, new concepts. Mountcastle's proposition that the all of the cortical columns across the neocortex operated in a similar manner in all regions making the neocortex a distributed system of modular columnar neural circuits that sits upon the subcortical architecture and serve as the basis of higher brain function. The second important concept would be Edelman's proposal for group selection operating upon reentrant maps within the cortex - the precursor to his major global brain function theory, TNGS or the Theory of Neuronal Group Selection.[4]
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- ↑ Mountcastle & Edelman 1978.
- ↑ Mountcastle & Edelman 1978, p. 7-50.
- ↑ Mountcastle & Edelman 1978, p. 51-100.
- ↑ Edelman 1987.
References[edit]
- Edelman, Gerald M. (1987). "Neural Darwinism: The Theory of Neuronal Group Selection". Basic Books, New York. ISBN 0-465-04934-6. Search this book on
- Mountcastle, Vernon Benjamin; Edelman, Gerald M. (1978). "The Mindful Brain: Cortical Organization and the Group-selective Theory of Higher Brain Function". MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-55007-9. Search this book on
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