The Entangled Brain : How Perception, Cognition, and Emotion Are Woven Together

Luiz Pessoa

ISBN 10: 0262544601 / ISBN 13: 9780262544603

Published by MIT Press Ltd Nov 2022, 2022

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Entangled Brain : How Perception, Cognition, and Emotion Are Woven Together
• Publisher: MIT Press Ltd Nov 2022
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0262544601
• ISBN 13: 9780262544603
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 228W x 149H x 15D millimeters 228 millimeters width by 149 millimeters height by 15 millimeters depth
• Weight: 444 grams

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Synopsis

A new vision of the brain as a fully integrated, networked organ.

Popular neuroscience accounts often focus on specific mind-brain aspects like addiction, cognition, or memory, but The Entangled Brain tackles a much bigger question: What kind of object is the brain? Neuroscientist Luiz Pessoa describes the brain as a highly networked, interconnected system that cannot be neatly decomposed into a set of independent parts. One can’t point to the brain and say, “This is where emotion happens” (or any other mental faculty). Pessoa argues that only by understanding how large-scale neural circuits combine multiple and diverse signals can we truly appreciate how the brain supports the mind.

Presenting the brain as an integrated organ and drawing on neuroscience, computation, mathematics, systems theory, and evolution, The Entangled Brain explains how brain functions result from cross-cutting brain processing, not the function of segregated areas. Parts of the brain work in a coordinated fashion across large-scale distributed networks in which disparate parts of the cortex and the subcortex work simultaneously to bring about behaviors. Pessoa intuitively explains the concepts needed to formalize this idea of the brain as a complex system and how to unleash powerful understandings built with “collective computations.”

About the Author

Luiz Pessoa is Professor of Psychology at the University of Maryland, College Park, and Director of the Maryland Neuroimaging Center. He is the author of The Cognitive-Emotional Brain (The MIT Press).