The Ecological Brain

Auteur

Luis H. Favela is an Associate Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Sciences at the University of Central Florida, USA, and is a Fellow with the Research Corporation for Science Advancement. His research is interdisciplinary, situated at the intersections of the cognitive sciences, experimental psychology, and the philosophies of mind and science.

Texte du rabat

The Ecological Brain is the first book of its kind, using complexity science to integrate the seemingly disparate fields of ecological psychology and neuroscience.

Contenu

1. Making everybody upset 2. Why ecological psychology? 3. The sins of cognitivism visited upon neuroscience 4. The varieties of ecological neuroscience 5. Foundations of complexity science for the mind sciences 6. What is NExT? NeuroEcological Nexus Theory 7. Putting the NeuroEcological Nexus Theory to work 8. Conclusion