After Phrenology: Neural Reuse and the Interactive Brain

by Michael L. Anderson and Michael L Anderson

Book Overview

A proposal for a fully post-phrenological neuroscience that details the evolutionary roots of functional diversity in brain regions and networks.

The computer analogy of the mind has been as widely adopted in contemporary cognitive neuroscience as was the analogy of the brain as a collection of organs in phrenology. Just as the phrenologist would insist that each organ must have its particular function, so contemporary cognitive neuroscience...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262544733
• ISBN13: 9780262544733
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher