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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">The book “Towards a Theoretical Neuroscience: from Cell Chemistry to Cognition” has just been published by Springer. This book is Volume 8 in the
Springer Series in Cognitive and Neural Systems.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">The
</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Springer web site is </span><a href="http://www.springer.com/biomed/book/978-94-007-7106-2" target="_blank">http://www.springer.com/biomed/book/978-94-007-7106-2</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">This book provides an overview of current knowledge of human cognition, neuroanatomy, neuron physiology, and neurochemistry with extensive references
to the original literature. It then goes on to describe how natural selection pressures have constrained the brain into forms in which different types of information processes are performed by major anatomical structures such as cortex, hippocampus, amygdala,
basal ganglia, thalamus, hypothalamus, basal forebrain and cerebellum. More detailed anatomical structures and neurons perform more detailed information processes making up the processes performed by major structures. Neurochemical processes implement yet
more detailed information processes that make up higher level processes.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">This hierarchy of information processing makes it possible to describe higher cognitive phenomena such as semantic, episodic, procedural, working
and prospective memory and the succession of mental images called the stream of consciousness in terms of combinations of information processes in different major anatomical structures, larger combinations of more detailed information processes in more detailed
structures, down to very large numbers of very detailed processes performed by neurochemistry.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">The book therefore bridges the gap between psychology and the physical neurosciences and makes it possible to understand complex cognitive phenomena
in terms of anatomy, physiology and neurochemistry.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">For more information see Springer web site
<a href="http://www.springer.com/biomed/book/978-94-007-7106-2">http://www.springer.com/biomed/book/978-94-007-7106-2</a></span></p>
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