After Phrenology : Neural Reuse and the Interactive Brain.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Brains -- 1 Neural Reuse and the Need for a New Approach to Understanding Brain Function -- Interlude 1: On the Importance of Neural Teamwork -- 2 Interactive Differentiation and the Search for Neural Coalitions -- Interlude 2: You Are Not Your Connectome! Sorry, Understanding the Brain (or People) Will Not Be That Simple -- 3 Neural Reuse in Contemporary Cognitive Science -- Interlude 3: The Dynamic Brain -- 4 Do Brain Regions Have Personalities of Their Own? Toward a Dispositional Neuroscience -- Interlude 4: The Eyes Have It -- Part II: Bodies -- 5 Brains and Their Bodies -- Interlude 5: Network Thinking -- 6 Embodiment, Computation, and Control -- Interlude 6: Is Our Brain as Good as It Gets? -- Part III: Beings -- 7 Languaging with an Interactive Brain -- Interlude 7: What Mindedness Is -- 8 A Functionalist Neuroscience for the Twenty-First Century -- Appendix: Twenty-Three (Hundred) Open Questions after Phrenology -- References -- Index.

A proposal for a fully post-phrenological neuroscience that details the evolutionary roots of functional diversity in brain regions and networks.

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