Volume 33, Number 15 · October 9, 1986
Neural Darwinism: A New Approach to Memory and Perception
By Israel Rosenfield
WORKS DISCUSSED IN THIS ESSAY
"Through a Computer Darkly: Group Selection and Higher Brain Function" 36, No. 1 (October 1982)
by Gerald M. Edelman. in Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vol.
20-48 pp.
"Neural Darwinism: Population Thinking and Higher Brain Function"
by Gerald M. Edelman, by in How We Know, ed. Michael Shafto
Harper and Row, 1-30 pp.
"Group Selection and Phasic Reentrant Signaling: A Theory of Higher Brain Function"
by Gerald M. Edelman, by in The Mindful Brain ed. G.M. Edelman, by V.B. Mountcastle
MIT Press, 51-100 pp.
"Group Selection as the Basis for Higher Brain Function" ed.
by Gerald M. Edelman, by in The Organization of the Cerebral Cortex F.O. Schmitt et al.
MIT Press, 535-563 pp.
"Neuronal Group Selection in the Cerebral Cortex"
by Gerald M. Edelman, by Leif H. Finkel, by in Dynamic Aspects of Neocortical Function ed. G.M. Edelman, by W.E. Gall, by W.M. Cowan
Wiley, 653-695 pp.
"Cell Adhesion Molecules"
by Gerald M. Edelman. in Science, Vol. 219, (February 4, 1983)
450-457 pp.
"Expression of Cell Adhesion Molecules During Embryogenesis and Regeneration"
by Gerald M. Edelman. in Experimental Cell Research 161 (1984)
1-16 pp.
"Interaction of Synaptic Modification Rules Within Populations of Neurons" (February 1985)
by Leif H. Finkel, by Gerald M. Edelman. in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science Vol. 82
1291-1295 pp.
"Selective Networks and Recognition Automata"
by George N. Reeke Jr., by Gerald M. Edelman. in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences (1985)
181-201 pp.
In 1895, Sigmund Freud made his last attempt to explain the neurophysiological basis of the way the brain functions. His essay on the subject, 'Project for a Scientific Psychology,' was never published during his lifetime. We have learned much about the brain since 1895, yet no equally ambitious attempt has since been made to examine the broad implications of neuroscientific research for the functioning of the brain and for psychology. Recently, Gerald M. Edelman, director of The Neurosciences Institute at The Rockefeller University, has proposed a new theory, one that gives us powerful reasons to revise our ideas about how we think, act, and remember. Although this theory is not directly based on Freud's work, it confronts several of the problems with which Freud wrestled throughout his creative life.
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