M MALDONATO
PREDICTIVE BRAIN
- ISBN 13:
- 9781845196394
- author:
- M MALDONATO
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Sussex Academic Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2014
- Pages:
- 1
- Dimensions:
- 19.6 x 13.5 x 1.5 cm
- Genre:
- Health, Family & Lifestyle, Medical & Healthcare Practitioners, Internal Medicine
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
The Predictive Brain Consciousness, Decision and Embodied Action by Mauro Maldonato explores how our brain's adaptive mechanisms have evolved to enable us to make rapid choices and avoid danger. Despite no longer facing the same survival pressures as our ancestors, our brain continues to use these mechanisms to anticipate consequences and formulate expectations. The book reveals that our brain is not only reactive but also proactive, allowing us to make hypotheses and wrong-foot an adversary. The relationship between the body and its movements underpins all abstract modes of behaviour, including language. Motor experiences have shaped the nervous infrastructure, leading to the development of symbols and metaphors used in language. Executive functions, controlled by nervous structures and mental procedures, require specific behaviours that are oriented towards a particular end. This book provides insight into how embodied cognition supported by consciousness enables us to plan, select actions, and process information.
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