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Subject(s)

• Cognitive science [Browse]
• Cognitive neuroscience [Browse]

Biographical/​Historical note

Harald Maurer is a post-doctoral researcher at the Wilhelm-Schickard-Institute for Computer Science, in the Department of Mathematical Logic and Theory of Language (University of Tübingen). He is published in journals such as "Computational Cognitive Science" and "Journal for General Philosophy of Science," is a lecturer at the Universities of Tübingen, Heidelberg and Magdeburg since 2012. He has presented his research at the universities of Tübingen, Berlin, Magdeburg, Leipzig, Bochum, Stuttgart and at the Max-Planck-Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt/Main.

Summary note

"The Mind/Brain may be considered as one and the same nonlinear, complex dynamical system, in which information processing can be described with vector and tensor transformations and with attractors in multidimensional state spaces. Thus, an internal neurocognitive representation concept consists of a dynamical process which filters out statistical prototypes from the sensorial information in terms of coherent and adaptive n-dimensional vector fields. These prototypes serve as a basis for dynamic, probabilistic predictions or probabilistic hypotheses on prospective new data (see the recently introduced approach of "predictive coding" in neurophilosophy). Furthermore, the phenomenon of sensory and language cognition would thus be based on a multitude of self-regulatory complex dynamics of synchronous self-organization mechanisms, in other words, an emergent "flux equilibrium process" ("steady state") of the total collective and coherent neural activity resulting from the oscillatory actions of neuronal assemblies. In perception it is shown how sensory object informations, like the object color or the object form, can be dynamically related together or can be integrated to a neurally based representation of this perceptual object by means of a synchronization mechanism ("feature binding")"-- Provided by publisher

Notes

Revised version of the author's PhD thesis.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-370) and index.

Source of description

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ISBN

• 1351043498 ((electronic book : Mobipocket))
• 1351043501
• 135104351X ((electronic book))
• 1351043528 ((electronic book))
• 9781351043496 ((electronic book : Mobipocket))
• 9781351043502 ((ebook))
• 9781351043519 ((electronic book))
• 9781351043526 ((electronic book))

LCCN

2021693076

OCLC

1253578651

Doi

• 10.1201/9781351043526.

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