{"product_id":"the-entangled-brain-isbn-9780262544603","title":"The Entangled Brain","description":"\u003cb\u003eA new vision of the brain as a fully integrated, networked organ.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePopular neuroscience accounts often focus on specific mind-brain aspects like addiction, cognition, or memory, but \u003ci\u003eThe Entangled Brain \u003c\/i\u003etackles a much bigger question: \u003ci\u003eWhat kind of object is the brain? \u003c\/i\u003eNeuroscientist Luiz Pessoa describes the brain as a highly networked, interconnected system that cannot be neatly decomposed into a set of independent parts. One can’t point to the brain and say, “This is where emotion happens” (or any other mental faculty). Pessoa argues that only by understanding how large-scale neural circuits combine multiple and diverse signals can we truly appreciate how the brain supports the mind. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePresenting the brain as an integrated organ and drawing on neuroscience, computation, mathematics, systems theory, and evolution, \u003ci\u003eThe Entangled Brain\u003c\/i\u003e explains how brain functions result from cross-cutting brain processing, not the function of segregated areas. Parts of the brain work in a coordinated fashion across large-scale distributed networks in which disparate parts of the cortex and the subcortex work simultaneously to bring about behaviors. Pessoa intuitively explains the concepts needed to formalize this idea of the brain as a complex system and how to unleash powerful understandings built with “collective computations.”Preface ix\u003cbr\u003e1 From One Area at a Time to Networked Systems 1\u003cbr\u003e2 Learning a Bit of Anatomy 15\u003cbr\u003e3 The Minimal Brain: Building Simple Defenses and Seeking Rewards 31\u003cbr\u003e4 What Do Brain Areas Do? 47\u003cbr\u003e5 Emotion and Motivation: The Subcortical Players 65\u003cbr\u003e6 Emotion and Motivation: The Cortex Comes to the Party 93\u003cbr\u003e7 Cognition and the Prefrontal Cortex 111\u003cbr\u003e8 Complex Systems: The Science of Interacting Parts 129\u003cbr\u003e9 500 Million Years of Evolution 145\u003cbr\u003e10 The Big Network: Putting Things Together 167\u003cbr\u003e11 Unlearning Fear 193\u003cbr\u003e12 It's All about Complex, Entangled Networks 215\u003cbr\u003eGlossary 231\u003cbr\u003eNotes 235\u003cbr\u003eReferences 247\u003cbr\u003eIndex 261“Luiz Pessoa’s The Entangled Brain should be welcomed as an equally informed and bold endeavor. . . Thanks to its engaging style, Pessoa’s book is ultimately aimed at all readers who are interested in how the brain really works.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eCognitive Neuropsychiatry\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Entangled Brain\u003c\/i\u003e is part survey, part manifesto. It provides an interesting and valuable overview of recent research on emotion, learning, extinction learning, the evolution of the human brain, and other phenomena, interspersed with pleas for a different approach to studying the mind and brain…Pessoa’s guiding theme is easily stated: neuroscience has been dominated by a view that the brain can be understood via an analysis into small, local functional units, but the actual functions that cause behavior are highly distributed and a proper understanding of them will not be possible with a reductive local account.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eMetascience\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Pessoa's enthusiasm for his 'favourite topic' permeates the text and makes reading a pleasure....Throughout this iconoclastic volume, the concept of the brain as a sophisticated complex system is illuminated by real life examples....[Pessoa] has certainly achieved his aim.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe British Neuroscience Association\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“It’s all about complex, entangled networks. That’s the theme of this superb book about the brain and its role in generating cognition and behavior. For anyone who wants to learn about the brain and its relationship to the mind, this book is essential reading.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Evan Thompson, author of \u003ci\u003eMind in Life \u003c\/i\u003eand Waking, Dreaming, Being;coauthor of \u003ci\u003eThe Embodied Mind\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“In this ambitious book, Luiz Pessoa deftly argues the case that the brain is not a modular system that can be understood one region at a time, but rather a complex network of interconnected, interdependent parts. Drawing from comparative neuroanatomy, mathematical biology, and complex systems theory, he convincingly demonstrates that brain regions can participate in specific functions only when embedded within larger networks. In this highly readable work that will appeal to everyone from curious youths to seasoned neuroscientists, he takes on the age-old question: \u003ci\u003eHow does the brain work?\u003c\/i\u003e It turns out, the answer is:\u003ci\u003e It’s complicated.\u003c\/i\u003e”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Lucina Q. Uddin, Professor, University of California Los Angeles\u003c\/b\u003eLuiz Pessoa is Professor of Psychology at the University of Maryland, College Park, and Director of the Maryland Neuroimaging Center. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Cognitive-Emotional Brain\u003c\/i\u003e (The MIT Press).","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304813842661,"sku":"NP9780262544603","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262544603.jpg?v=1767739200","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-entangled-brain-isbn-9780262544603","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}