Study Week September 28 to October 4, 1964, of the Pontificia Academia Scientiarum
First Statement of Responsibility
edited by John C. Eccles.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Berlin, Heidelberg
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
1966
CONTENTS NOTE
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1 Structural design of the neocortex --;2 Cerebral synaptic mechanisms --;3 Structure and function of archicortex --;4 Neural replication of somatic sensory events --;5 Sensory mechanisms in perception --;6 Information transmission in the visual system --;7 Brain stimulation and conscious experience --;8 Perception after brain injury --;9 Speech, perception and the cortex --;10 Consciousness --;Discussion: developing the themes of preceding papers 249 --;11 Brain mechanisms and states of consciousness --;12 Neurophysiological correlates of mental unity --;13 Brain bisection and consciousness --;14 Conscious experience and memory --;15 Functional significance of sleep for brain mechanisms --;16 Precentrai motor area --;17 Conscious control of action --;18 Brain-consciousness problem --;19 Ethology and consciousness --;20 Dopamine and central neurotransmission --;21 Psychosomatic problems --;Final discussion --;Convergences, divergences, lacunae.
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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The planning of this Study Week at the Pontifical Academy of Science from September 28 to October 4, 1964, began just two years before when the President, Professor Lemaitre, asked me if 1 would be responsible for a Study Week relating Psychology to what we may call the Neurosciences.