Brain and Values: Is A Biological Science of Values Possible?

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ISBN: 9780805831542 | 0805831541
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Copyright: 5/1/1998

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This 5th volume of the Appalachian Conference discusses how the brain processes information, the role of memory and value, and models of creativity. It pursues aspects of cognitive neuroscience and behavioral neurodynamics, such as the topic of values and quantum-distributed processing in the brain.

Keynote Successful Intelligence: An Expanded Approach to Understanding Intelligence

(24)

Robert J Sternberg

Foreword Ruminations on Sex and Death; Memory and Value

(6)

Karl H Pribram

Introduction

(46)

1. Mixing Memory and Desire: Want and Will in Neural Modeling

(12)

Bruce J MacLennan

2. On Brain and Value: Utility, Preference, Play and Creativity

(12)

Karl H Pribram

3. Values, Goals and Utility in an Engineering -- Based Theory of Mammalian Intelligence

(22)

Paul Werbos

Preference

(200)

4. Stimulus Class Formation in Animals

(32)

Thomas R Zentall

5. Virtual Associative Networks: A Framework for Cognitive Modeling

109

(70)

Yan M Yufik

6. Self-Organization of Cortical Information Processing

179

(28)

Thomas P. Vogl

Kim T Blackwell

Daniel L Alkon

7. The Self-Organizing Map, A Possible Model of Brain Maps

207

(30)

Teuvo Kohonen

8. Pragmatic Approach to Consciousness

237

(12)

Henry Stapp

9. Do All Dynamical Systems Have Memory? Implications of the Systematic Memory Hypothesis for Science and Society

249

(28)

Gary E Schwartz

Linda G Russek

Utility

277

(130)

10. Preserved Semantic Memory in an Amnesic Child

277

(22)

Charles A Ahern

Frank B Wood

Christine M. McBrien

11. The Role of Memory in the Brain, Values, and Choice

299

(24)

Bennet B Murdock

12. Transfer of Value in Simultaneous Discriminations: Implications for Cognitive and Social Processes

323

(14)

Thomas R Zentall

Lou R Sherburne

13. The Experience-Dependent Maturation of an Evaluative System in the Cortex

337

(22)

Allan N Schore

14. The Electricity of Touch: Detection and Measurement of Cardiac Energy

359

(22)

Rolin McCraty

Mike Atkinson

Dana Tomasion

William A Tiller

15. Readiness For Action

381

(26)

Luder Deeke

Wilfried Lang

Creativity

407

(144)

16. A Larmarckian Model of Creativity

407

(20)

Robert J Sternberg

17. Metaphor, Healing, and Creativity: Re-Framing as a Biological Phenomenon

427

(44)

Sam Leven

18. Values, Agency, and the Theory of Quantum Vacuum Interaction

471

(34)

Raymond T Bradley

19. On Cognitive Maps, Vicarious Trial-and-Error, and Implusivity

505

(30)

Abram Amsel

20. Role of the Hippocampus in Learning and Memory: A Computational Analysis

535

(16)

J L McClelland

Afterword

551

Commentary on J L McClelland

551

(4)

Karl H Pribram

McClelland Reactions to Pribram's Commentary

555

(2)

J L McCelland

Commentary on the Relation Between Value and Amnesia

557

Karl Pribram

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