Brain and Values | Is A Biological Science of Values Possible? | Karl

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ABSTRACT

This 5th volume of the Appalachian Conference discusses how the brain processes information, the role of memory and value, and models of creativity. It pursues aspects of cognitive neuroscience and behavioral neurodynamics, such as the topic of values and quantum-distributed processing in the brain.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

part

Keynote

chapter |21 pages

Successful Intelligence: An Expanded Approach to Understanding Intelligence

part |5 pages

Foreword

chapter |3 pages

Ruminations on Sex and Death; Memory and Value

part |46 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|12 pages

Mixing Memory and Desire: Want and Will in Neural Modeling

chapter 2|12 pages

On Brain and Value: Utility, Preference, Play and Creativity

chapter 3|20 pages

Values, Goals and Utility in an Engineering-Based Theory of Mammalian Intelligence

part |199 pages

Preference

chapter 4|31 pages

Stimulus Class Formation in Animals

chapter 5|69 pages

Virtual Associative Networks: A Framework for Cognitive Modeling

chapter 6|27 pages

Self-Organization of Cortical Information Processing

chapter 7|30 pages

The Self-Organizing Map, a Possible Model of Brain Maps

chapter 8|12 pages

Pragmatic Approach to Consciousness

chapter 9|25 pages

Do All Dynamical Systems Have Memory? Implications of the Systemic Memory Hypothesis for Science and Society 1

part |129 pages

Utility

chapter 10|21 pages

Preserved Vocabulary and Reading Acquisition in an Amnesic Child

chapter 11|24 pages

The role of Memory in Brain, Values, and Choice

chapter 12|14 pages

The Transfer of Value in Simultaneous Discriminations: Implications for Cognitive and Social Processes

chapter 13|22 pages

The Experience-dependent Maturation of an Evaluative System in the Cortex

chapter 14|21 pages

The Electricity of Touch: Detection and measurement of cardiac energy exchange between people

chapter 15|23 pages

Readiness For Action

part |143 pages

Creativity

chapter 16|20 pages

A Larmarckian Model of Creativity

chapter 17|44 pages

Creativity: Reframed As A Biological Process

chapter 18|34 pages

Values, Agency, and the Theory of Quantum Vacuum Interaction

chapter 19|29 pages

On Cognitive Maps, Vicarious Trial-and-Error, and Impulsivity

chapter 20|13 pages

Role of the Hippocampus in Learning and Memory: A Computational Analysis

part |10 pages

Afterword

chapter |8 pages

Afterword