The use of models has been important to the historical and contemporary study of the human brain, yet very little study by social scientists has been dedicated to how the brain sciences develop and use models to better understand what brains are and how they work, including the complex entanglements between brains, bodies and their environments. Vital Models: The Making and Use of Models in the Brain Sciences explores the history and use of brain models from clinical psychiatry to psychopharmacology and cybernetics, as well as developments in digital brain modeling, simulation, imaging and connectomics.
This timely volume helps both scientists and students better understand the variety, strengths, weaknesses and applicability of models in neuroscience.
1. Cover image - p. iv 2. Title page - p. iv 3. Table of Contents - p. iv 4. Copyright - p. iv 5. Contributors - p. v 6. Preface - p. xi 7. Chapter 1: Vital brains: On the entanglement of media, minds, and models - p. xx 8. Chapter 2: Slicing the cortex to study mental illness: Alois Alzheimer's pictures of equivalence - p. 24 9. Chapter 3: Opaque models: Using drugs and dreams to explore the neurobiological basis of mental phenomena - p. 51 10. Chapter 4: Man not a machine: Models, minds, and mental labor, c.1980☆ - p. 72 11. Chapter 5: Infrastructural intelligence: Contemporary entanglements between neuroscience and AI - p. 100 12. Chapter 6: Learning from large-scale neural simulations - p. 128 13. Chapter 7: Connectomes as constitutively epistemic objects: Critical perspectives on modeling in current neuroanatomy - p. 148 14. Chapter 8: Bridging the gap between system and cell: The role of ultra-high field MRI in human neuroscience - p. 177 15. Index - p. 221
The use of models has been important to the historical and contemporary study of the human brain, yet very little study by social scientists has been dedicated to how the brain sciences develop and use models to better understand what brains are and how they work, including the complex entanglements between brains, bodies and their environments. Vital Models: The Making and Use of Models in the Brain Sciences explores the history and use of brain models from clinical psychiatry to psychopharmacology and cybernetics, as well as developments in digital brain modeling, simulation, imaging and connectomics.
This timely volume helps both scientists and students better understand the variety, strengths, weaknesses and applicability of models in neuroscience.
1. Cover image - p. iv 2. Title page - p. iv 3. Table of Contents - p. iv 4. Copyright - p. iv 5. Contributors - p. v 6. Preface - p. xi 7. Chapter 1: Vital brains: On the entanglement of media, minds, and models - p. xx 8. Chapter 2: Slicing the cortex to study mental illness: Alois Alzheimer's pictures of equivalence - p. 24 9. Chapter 3: Opaque models: Using drugs and dreams to explore the neurobiological basis of mental phenomena - p. 51 10. Chapter 4: Man not a machine: Models, minds, and mental labor, c.1980☆ - p. 72 11. Chapter 5: Infrastructural intelligence: Contemporary entanglements between neuroscience and AI - p. 100 12. Chapter 6: Learning from large-scale neural simulations - p. 128 13. Chapter 7: Connectomes as constitutively epistemic objects: Critical perspectives on modeling in current neuroanatomy - p. 148 14. Chapter 8: Bridging the gap between system and cell: The role of ultra-high field MRI in human neuroscience - p. 177 15. Index - p. 221
