Good suggestion I'll take a look too. Bernie Baars is famous for his Global workspace theory so perhaps this book will cover that. But he is a philosopher so I wouldn't necessarily expect much detailed neuroscience...?
Sent from my BlackBerry® PlayBook™ www.blackberry.com ------------------------------ *From:* "cogmission1 ." <[email protected]> *To:* "John Blackburn" <[email protected]> *Sent:* 3 October 2014 19:24 *Subject:* Re: A good complement to "On Intelligence" I feel like David just mugged me for my lunch money! :) Now I have to get this book too! On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 12:39 PM, Chandan Maruthi <[email protected]> wrote: > David, > The book looks great, I am thinking of getting this one . Has anyone else > on the mailing list read this book? > > Regards > Chandan > > On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 6:16 AM, David Ragazzi <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi guys, >> >> After try read Kandel, Gazzaniga, and other famous authours/editors about >> cognitive neuroscience, I got lost with several terms and the level of >> details that is unencouraging to understand intelligence. >> >> So I researched the internet and find this one: >> >> Baars and Gage (2013) Fundamentals of Cognitive Neuroscience: A >> Beginner's Guide: >> >> http://www.amazon.com/Fundamentals-Cognitive-Neuroscience-Beginners-Guide/dp/0124158056 >> >> In my opinion, if you doesn't have a neuroscience background but wish >> have, this is the best book to start understand the discipline, terms, >> neuro-imaging techniques, etc, before read any scientific article or book. >> Although its language is very simple, it covers most fields related to >> cognitive science like attention, sensory-motor functions, etc. >> >> Have someone here also had good experience with this book? Or am I >> exaggerating? >> >> Best wishes, >> -- >> David Ragazzi >> MSc in Sofware Engineer (University of Liverpool) >> OS Community Commiter at Numenta.org >> -- >> "I think James Connolly, the Irish revolutionary, is right when he says that >> the only prophets are those who make their future. So we're not >> anticipating, we're working for it." >> > > -- *We find it hard to hear what another is saying because of how loudly "who one is", speaks...*
