Consciousness Transitions: Phylogenetic, Ontogenetic and Physiological Aspects - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0444529772 ISBN 13: 9780444529770

Verlag: Elsevier Science, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

It was not long ago when the consciousness was not considered a problem for science. However, this has now changed and the problem of consciousness is considered the greatest challenge to science. In the last decade, a great number of books and articles have been published in the field, but very few have focused on the how consciousness evolves and develops, and what characterizes the transitions between different conscious states, in animals and humans. This book addresses these questions. Renowned researchers from different fields of science (including neurobiology, evolutionary biology, ethology, cognitive science, computational neuroscience and philosophy) contribute with their results and theories in this book, making it a unique collection of the state-of-the-art of this young field of consciousness studies.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Hans Liljenström is Professor at the Department of Biometry and Engineering, SLU, Uppsala, Sweden. His main research concerns mathematical and computational modelling of biological/neural systems and processes at different organisational scales. He has a long-standing interest in the brain-mind relation, and has co-edited several books and special issues on this topic.

Peter Århem is Professor at the Nobel Institute for Neurophysiology and Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. His research covers philosophical and neurophysiological aspects on the brain-mind problem, electrophysiological, biophysical, molecular and theoretical aspects on anesthesia and nerve cell function. Beside scientific articles he has also published on cultural and philosophical matters for a wider public.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Elsevier Science
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0444529772
• ISBN 13: 9780444529770
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 348
• Herausgeber: Liljenström Hans, Århem Peter
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Barbara Criscuolo; b.criscuolo@lswr.it; ; Via Spadolini, 7; Milano; 20141; Italien