The Brain from Inside Out is a fascinating guided tour by a leading brain scientist of the race to address the biggest challenge of our times: understanding the inner workings of the brain. Buzsaki's ideas are at the same time personal and universal, offering an intimate look at the major hypotheses and roadblocks that drive brain science today. A wonderful read.

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György Buzsáki is Biggs Professor of Neuroscience at New York University.
Member of the National Academy of Sciences USA, Co-recipient of the 2011 Brain Prize.
His main interest is "neural syntax", how segmentation of neural information is organized to support cognitive functions.
Book: G. Buzsáki, Rhythms of the Brain, Oxford University Press, 2006

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Gy�rgy Buzs�ki's The Brain from Inside Out examines why the outside-in framework for understanding brain function have become stagnate and points to new directions for understanding neural function. Building upon the success of Rhythms of the Brain, Professor Buzs�ki presents the brain as a foretelling device that interacts with its environment through action and the examination of action's consequence. Instead of a brain that represents the world, consider that it is initially filled with nonsense patterns, all of which are gibberish until grounded by action-based interactions. By matching these nonsense "words" to the outcomes of action, they acquire meaning. The Brain from Inside Out explains why our brain is not an information-absorbing coding device, as it is often portrayed, but a venture seeking explorer constantly controlling the body to test hypotheses. Our brain does not process information: it creates it.

Inhalt

• Preface

• Chapter 1: The Problem

• Chapter 2: Causation and Logic in Neuroscience

• Chapter 3: Perception from Action

• Chapter 4: Neuronal Assembly: The Fundamental Unit of Communication

• Chapter 5: Internalization of Experience: Cognition from Action

• Chapter 6: Brain Rhythms Provide a Framework for Neural Syntax

• Chapter 7: Internally Organized Cell-Assembly Trajectories

• Chapter 8: Internally Organized Activity During Off-Line Brain States

• Chapter 9: Enhancing Brain Performance by Externalizing Thought

• Chapter 10: Space and Time in the Brain

• Chapter 11: Gain and Abstraction

• Chapter 12: Everything is a Relationship: The Non-Egalitarian, Log-Scaled Brain

• Chapter 13: The Brain's Best Guess

• Chapter 14: Epilogue

• Index