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Brains Top Down: Is Top-down Causation Challenging Neuroscience?

by Gennaro Auletta, Ivan Colage, Marc Jeannerod ...

Written by an international team of leading experts in neuroscience, this book presents an overview of some of the main schools of thought as well as current research trends in neuroscience. It focuses on neural top-down causation applied to hot topics like consciousness, emotions, the self and the will, action and behavior, neural networks, brains and society. A special feature of the book is ... Read more

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