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The Autonomous Brain

A Neural Theory of Attention and Learning

The Autonomous Brain( )
Author: Milner, Peter M.
ISBN:978-1-135-67022-1
Publication Date:Jul 1999
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Group
Imprint:Psychology Press
Book Format:Digital (delivered electronically)
List Price:USD $62.95
Book Description:

The behaviorist credo that animals are devices for translating sensory input into appropriate responses dies hard. The thesis of this pathbreaking book is that the brain is innately constructed to initiate behaviors likely to promote the survival of the species, and to sensitize sensory systems to stimuli required for those behaviors. Animals attend innately to vital stimuli (reinforcers) and the more advanced animals learn to attend to related stimuli as well. Thus, the centrifugal...
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Pages:156



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