The Deep History of Ourselves: The Four-Billion-Year Story of How We Got Conscious Brains by Joseph LeDoux

Author:Joseph LeDoux
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Viking
Published: 2019-08-26T23:00:00+00:00

PART 11

Cognitive Hardware

Chapter 48: Perception and Memory Share Circuitry

Chapter 49: The Cognitive Coalition

Chapter 50: Rewired and Running Hot

Chapter 48

PERCEPTION AND MEMORY SHARE CIRCUITRY

Human cognitive deliberation, mental models, schemas, pattern processing, conceptualization, hierarchical relational reasoning, language, and the like are products of the kind of brain we have. And within the brain, cognition is to a large degree a product of our cerebral cortex, especially the laterally located neocortex.

Anatomists have traditionally divided the neocortex into four main lobes: occipital, temporal, parietal, and frontal (figure 48.1). But in order to understand the neural basis of cognition, we can’t stop at such a coarse level.

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