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Author(s): Moshe Bar
ISBN(s): 9780195395518, 0195395514
Edition: Revised ed.
File Details: PDF, 25.14 MB
Year: 2011
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0195395514 
ISBN 13: 9780195395518
Author: Moshe Bar

When one is immersed in the fascinating world of neuroscience findings, the brain might start to seem like a collection of “modules,” each specializes in a specific mental feat. But just like in other domains of Nature, it is possible that much of the brain and mind’s operation can be explained with a small set of universal principles. Given exciting recent developments in theory, empirical findings and computational studies, it seems that the generation of predictions might be one strong candidate for such a universal principle. This is the focus of Predictions in the brain. From the predictions required when a rat navigates a maze to food-caching in scrub-jays; from predictions essential in decision-making to social interactions; from predictions in the retina to the prefrontal cortex; and from predictions in early development to foresight in non-humans. The perspectives represented in this collection span a spectrum from the cellular underpinnings to the computational principles underlying future-related mental processes, and from systems neuroscience to cognition and emotion. In spite of this diversity, they share some core elements. Memory, for instance, is critical in any framework that explains predictions. In asking “what is next?” our brains have to refer to memory and experience on the way to simulating our mental future. But as much as this collection offers answers to important questions, it raises and emphasizes outstanding ones. How are experiences coded optimally to afford using them for predictions? How do we construct a new simulation from separate memories? How specific in detail are future-oriented thoughts, and when do they rely on imagery, concepts or language? Therefore, in addition to presenting the state-of-the-art of research and ideas about predictions as a universal principle in mind and brain, it is hoped that this collection will stimulate important new research into the foundations of our mental lives.

Predictions in the Brain Using Our Past to Generate a Future 1st Table of contents:

1. Varieties of Future Experience
2. The Proactive Brain
3. Simulation, Situated Conceptualization, and Prediction
4. Architecture of Counterfactual Thought in the Prefrontal Cortex
5. On the Nature of Medial Temporal Lobe Contributions to the Constructive Simulation of Future Events
6. The Construction System of the Brain
7. Similarities in Episodic Future Thought and Remembering: The Importance of Contextual Setting
8. Imagining Predictions: Mental Imagery as Mental Emulation
9. See It with Feeling: Affective Predictions during Object Perception
10. The Somatic Marker Hypothesis and Its Neural Basis: Using Past Experiences to Forecast the Future in Decision Making
11. Envisioning the Future and Self-Regulation
12. Prediction: A Construal-Level Theory Perspective
13. Previews, Premotions, and Predictions
14. On Look-Ahead in Language: Navigating a Multitude of Familiar Paths
15. A Look around at What Lies Ahead: Prediction and Predictability in Language Processing
16. Cortical and Subcortical Predictive Dynamics and Learning during Perception, Cognition, Emotion, and Action
17. Predictive Coding: A Free-Energy Formulation
18. Sequence Memory for Prediction, Inference, and Behavior
19. Prediction, Sequences, and the Hippocampus
20. The Neurobiology of Memory-Based Predictions
21. Predicting Not to Predict Too Much: How the Cellular Machinery of Memory Anticipates the Uncertain Future
22. The Retina as Embodying Predictions about the Visual World
23. Making Predictions: A Developmental Perspective
24. Prospective Decision Making in Animals: A Potential Role for Intertemporal Choice in the Study of Prospective Cognition
25. Mental Time Travel and the Shaping of the Human Mind

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