This book brings together the latest information about brain mapping into one succinct, multi-disciplinary volume. Human Brain Function provides a thorough explanation of the methods for obtaining new data, as well as detailing each of the major areas of new discoveries in noninvasive brain mapping. In the decade since the application of new imaging methods in functional imaging, new results in perception, cognition, plasticity, and motor function have been uncovered and are discussed in detail in this timely book. Key Features * Contains a thorough explanation of statistical parametric maps * Covers the field of functional imaging and cognitive neuroscience * Features completely up-to-date research * Presents new research in brain mapping

Human Brain Function

Medical Books

Friston, Karl J.

Frith, Christopher D.

Frackowiak, Richard S.J.

Dolan, Raymond J.

Mazziotta, John C.

Medicine

Academic Press

The first comprehensive treatment of active inference, an integrative perspective on brain, cognition, and behavior used across multiple disciplines. Active inference is a way of understanding sentient behavior-a theory that characterizes perception, planning, and action in terms of probabilistic inference. Developed by theoretical neuroscientist Karl Friston over years of groundbreaking research, active inference provides an integrated perspective on brain, cognition, and behavior that is increasingly used across multiple disciplines including neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy. Active inference puts the action into perception. This book offers the first comprehensive treatment of active inference, covering theory, applications, and cognitive domains. Active inference is a "first principles" approach to understanding behavior and the brain, framed in terms of a single imperative to minimize free energy. The book emphasizes the implications of the free energy principle for understanding how the brain works. It first introduces active inference both conceptually and formally, contextualizing it within current theories of cognition. It then provides specific examples of computational models that use active inference to explain such cognitive phenomena as perception, attention, memory, and planning.

Active Inference: The Free Energy Principle in Mind, Brain, and Behavior

Politics & Social Sciences

Parr, Thomas

Pezzulo, Giovanni

Philosophy

The MIT Press

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