Introduction to the study of the neural basis of action and thought / by Pierre Nelson and Gerard Lot. -- Sharjah : Bentham Science Publishers, 2015. – (59.597/N432)

Contents

Foreword

Preface: The Goal and the Method

CHAPTERS

 1.  Neurons: From Ions and Molecules to Message Transformations

             1.1. What Everybody Knows of Neurons

             1.2. Physics and Chemistry of Any Kind of Neuron

             1.3. A Kit of Simple Input-Output Relations

 2.   Men, Animals, Machines

             2.1. Brief Description of the Human Nervous System

             2.2. Animals and Human Beings

             2.3. Machines and Men

 3.   Sensors, Behaviors, Muscles

             3.1. Sensorial Analysis

             3.2. Instincts, Drives and Choices

             3.3. The Mechanisms and Control of Motion

 4.   Learning and Memory

             4.1. Memory at the Cell Level

             4.2. Learning and Memory at the Systems Level

 5.  The Thinking Brain

             5.1. The Word

             5.2. Action, Thought and Self Awareness

     Additional Information

             Notations and Useful Constants

     Index