Representation and Brain [Hardcover]

Understanding brain functions, especially the neural mechanisms of higher cognitive processes such as thinking, reasoning, judging, and decision making, are the subjects covered by the chapters of this book. They describe recent progress in four major research areas: visual functions, motor functions, memory functions, and prefrontal functions. There are many color illustrations making this book an especially valuable resource for students and researchers in neuroscience.

How is information represented in the nervous system? How is that information manipulated and processed? These are some of the more important and challenging questions for neuroscientists and psychologists today. Understanding brain functions, especially the neural mechanisms of higher cognitive processes such as thinking, reasoning, judging, and decision making, are the subjects covered by the research in the chapters of this book. They describe recent progress in four major research areas: visual functions, motor functions, memory functions, and prefrontal functions. Readers will obtain an excellent idea of how the nervous system internally represents the outer world, how the nervous system constructs images or schemas to perceive the outer world or react to the environment, and how the nervous system processes information using internal representations - topics that are at the forefront of brain science today.Preface Part I: Visual Information Processing and Visual Image Production Chapter 1 Visual Perception of Contextual Effect and Its Neural CorrelatesYoshimichi Ejima, Shigeko Takahashi, Hiroki Yamamoto, and Naokazu Goda Chapter 2 Multiple Mechanisms of Top-Down Processing in VisionGiorgio Ganis and Stephen M. Kosslyn Chapter 3 Invariant Representations of Objects in Natural Scenes in the Temporal Cortex Visual AreasEdmund T. Rolls Chapter 4 Representation of Objects and Scenes in Visual Working Memory in Human BrainJun Saiki Part II: Motor Image and Body Schema Chaptl;