Dædalus was founded in 1955 as the Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. It draws on the enormous intellectual capacity of the American Academy, whose members are among the nation's most prominent thinkers in the arts, sciences, and humanities. The theme for the Winter 2015 issue is "What is the Brain Good For?"
Contents:
Neuroscience: The Study of the Nervous System & Its Function
Fred H. Gage
Brain Mechanisms for Active Vision
Robert H. Wurtz
Perceiving
Thomas D. Albright
The Energetic Ear
A. J. Hudspeth
Remembering
Larry R. Squire & John T. Wixted
Sleep, Memory & Brain Rhythms
Brendon O. Watson & György Buzsáki
A Hard Scientific Quest: Understanding Voluntary Movements
Emilio Bizzi & Robert Ajemian
Feelings: What Are They & How Does the Brain Make Them?
Joseph E. LeDoux
Working Memory Capacity: Limits on the Bandwidth of Cognition
Earl K. Miller & Timothy J. Buschman
Consciousness
Terrence J. Sejnowski
Language
English
Pages
217
Format
Kindle Edition
Publisher
MIT Press
Release
January 28, 2015
Daedalus 144:1 (Winter 2015) - What is the Brain Good For?
Dædalus was founded in 1955 as the Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. It draws on the enormous intellectual capacity of the American Academy, whose members are among the nation's most prominent thinkers in the arts, sciences, and humanities. The theme for the Winter 2015 issue is "What is the Brain Good For?"
Contents:
Neuroscience: The Study of the Nervous System & Its Function
Fred H. Gage
Brain Mechanisms for Active Vision
Robert H. Wurtz
Perceiving
Thomas D. Albright
The Energetic Ear
A. J. Hudspeth
Remembering
Larry R. Squire & John T. Wixted
Sleep, Memory & Brain Rhythms
Brendon O. Watson & György Buzsáki
A Hard Scientific Quest: Understanding Voluntary Movements
Emilio Bizzi & Robert Ajemian
Feelings: What Are They & How Does the Brain Make Them?
Joseph E. LeDoux
Working Memory Capacity: Limits on the Bandwidth of Cognition
Earl K. Miller & Timothy J. Buschman