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ISBN-10 :  1003830405 

ISBN-13 :  9781003830405

Author:  Luis H. Favela 

The Ecological Brain is the first book of its kind, using complexity science to integrate the seemingly disparate fields of ecological psychology and neuroscience. The book develops a unique framework for unifying investigations and explanations of mind that span brain, body, and environment: the NeuroEcological Nexus Theory (NExT). Beginning with an introduction to the history of the fields, the author provides an assessment of why ecological psychology and neuroscience are commonly viewed as irreconcilable methods for investigating and explaining cognition, intelligent behavior, and the systems that realize them. The book then progresses to its central aim: presenting a unified investigative and explanatory framework offering concepts, methods, and theories applicable across neural and ecological scales of investigation. By combining the core principles of ecological psychology, neural population dynamics, and synergetics under a unified complexity science approach, NExT offers a compressive investigative framework to explain and understand neural, bodily, and environmental contributions to perception-action and other forms of intelligent behavior and thought. The book progresses the conversation around the role of brains in ecological psychology, as well as bodies and environments in neuroscience. It is essential reading for all students of ecological psychology, perception, cognitive sciences, and neuroscience, as well as anyone interested in the history and philosophy of the brain/mind sciences and their state-of-the-art methods and theories.

The Ecological Brain: Unlying the Sciences of Brain, Body, and Environment 1st Table of contents:

1 Making everybody upset
1.1 The scope of the issue
1.2 Why think ecological psychology and neuroscience are irreconcilable?
1.2.1 Neuroscience approach to visually-guided action
1.2.2 Ecological psychology approach to visually-guided action
1.2.3 Radically different scientific worldviews
1.3 What’s to come
2 Why “ecological” psychology?
2.1 From computers to environments
2.1.1 Why “cognitive” psychology?
2.1.2 Why “ecological” psychology?
2.2 Conclusion
3 The sins of cognitivism visited upon neuroscience
3.1 From cognitivism to neuroscience
3.2 From Hippocrates and Aristotle to Mike the Headless Chicken
3.3 From Ramón y Cajal to McCulloch and Pitts
3.3.1 Hodgkin-Huxley model
3.3.2 McCulloch-Pitts model
3.3.3 The McCulloch-Pitts tradition versus the Hodgkin-Huxley tradition
3.4 Cognitivism finds a new home
3.4.1 Is neuroscience really cognitivist?
3.4.2 Yes, contemporary neuroscience is very much cognitivist
3.5 Conclusion
4 The varieties of ecological neuroscience
4.1 The story thus far
4.2 Preliminaries to an ecological neuroscience
4.2.1 Neuroscience and (titular) affordances
4.2.2 Ecological psychology and resonance
4.2.3 Playing nice with others
4.3 Reed and Edelman
4.4 Neural reuse
4.5 Bayesianism
4.6 Conclusion
5 Foundations of complexity science for the mind sciences
5.1 A way forward
5.2 What is complexity science?
5.3 The roots of complexity science
5.3.1 Systems theory
5.3.2 Nonlinear dynamical systems theory
5.3.3 Synergetics
5.4 Key concepts and ways to get a grip on them
5.5 Putting complexity science to work
5.6 Conclusion
6 What is NExT? NeuroEcological Nexus Theory
6.1 Assembling the pieces
6.2 What is NExT?
6.3 Six hypotheses
6.4 Conclusion
7 Putting the NeuroEcological Nexus Theory to work
7.1 Investigating an affordance via NExT
7.2 The affordance of pass-through-able
7.3 Making everybody happy? NExT = complexity science, ecological psychology, and neuroscience
7.3.1 NExT and complexity science
7.3.2 NExT and ecological psychology
7.3.3 NExT and neuroscience
7.4 What comes NExT?
7.5 Conclusion
8 Conclusion
8.1 The ecological brain
8.2 Challenges
8.3 So is everybody upset?

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