Book description
Leading neuroscientist Dr. Masao Ito advances a detailed and fascinating view of what the cerebellum contributes to brain function. The cerebellum has been seen as primarily involved in coordination of body movement control, facilitating the learning of motor skills such as those involved in walking, riding a bicycle, or playing a piano. The cerebellum is now viewed as an assembly of numerous neuronal machine modules, each of which provides an implicit learning capability to various types of motor control. The cerebellum enables us to unconsciously learn motor skills through practice by forming internal models simulating control system properties of the body parts.
Based on these remarkable advances in our understanding of motor control mechanisms of the cerebellum, Ito presents a still larger view of the cerebellum as serving a higher level of brain functions beyond movements, including the implicit part of the thought and cognitive processes that manipulate knowledge. Ito extends his investigation of the cerebellum to discuss neural processes that may be involved implicitly in such complex mental actions as having an intuition, imagination, hallucination, or delusion.
Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- 1. Neuronal Circuitry: The Key to Unlocking the Brain
- 2. Traditional Views of the Cerebellum
- 3. The Cerebellum as a Neuronal Machine
- 4. Input and Output Pathways in the Cerebellar Cortex
- 5. Inhibitory Interneurons and Glial Cells in the Cerebellar Cortex
- 6. Pre- and Post-Cerebellar Cortex Neurons
- 7. Conjunctive Long-Term Depression (LTD)
- 8. Multiplicity and Persistency of Synaptic Plasticity
- 9. Network Models
- 10. Ocular Reflexes
- 11. Somatic and Autonomic Reflexes
- 12. Adaptive Control System Models
- 13. Voluntary Motor Control
- 14. Voluntary Eye Movement
- 15. Internal Models for Voluntary Motor Control
- 16. Motor Actions and Tool Use
- 17. Cognitive Functions
- 18. Concluding Thoughts
- References
- Index
- Color Plates
- Financial Times Press
Product information
- Title: The Cerebellum: Brain for an Implicit Self
- Author(s):
- Release date: August 2011
- Publisher(s): Pearson
- ISBN: 9780132622462
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