New titles in Consciousness Studies: Vitiello, Rakover
Jessica Balaschak
following volumes in the field of Consciousness Studies:
My Double Unveiled.
The dissipative quantum model of brain.
Giuseppe Vitiello
University of Salerno
Advances in Consciousness Research 32
United States and Canada: 1 58811 076 1 / USD 44.95 (Paperback)
Rest of World: 90 272 5152 5 / NLG 100.00 (Paperback)
This introduction to the dissipative quantum model of brain and to its
possible implications for consciousness studies is addressed to a broad
interdisciplinary audience. Memory and consciousness are approached from
the physicist point of view focusing on the basic observation that the
brain is an open system continuously interacting with its environment. The
unavoidable dissipative character of the brain functioning turns out to be
the root of the brain's large memory capacity and of other memory features
such as memory association, memory confusion, duration of memory. The
openness of the brain implies a formal picture of the world which is
modeled on the same brain image: a sort of brain copy or "Double", where
world objectiveness and the brain implicit subjectivity are conjugated.
Consciousness is seen to arise from the permanent "dialogue" of the brain
with its Double.
The author's narration of his (re-)search gives a cross-over of the physics
of elementary particles and condensed matter, and the brain's basic
dynamics. This dynamic interplay makes for a "satisfying feeling of the
unity of knowledge". (Series A)
Face Recognition.
Cognitive and computational processes.
Sam S. Rakover and Baruch Cahlon
University of Haifa/Oakland University, Michigan
Advances in Consciousness Research 31
United States and Canada: 1 58811 051 6 / USD 49.95 (Paperback)
Rest of World: 90 272 5151 7 / NLG 110.00 (Paperback)
Face Recognition: Cognitive and Computational Processes critically
discusses current research in face recognition, leading to an original
approach with criminological applications. The book covers:
-- The methodological and philosophical basis of research in face recognition.
-- Findings and their explanations, conceptual issues, theories and models
of face recognition
-- The Catch Model (Rakover & Cahlon) for reconstructing (identifying) a
face from memory, and other models and methods of face reconstruction.
-- Conscious perception and recognition of faces.
The book also discusses original ideas on conceptualizing face perception
and recognition in tasks of facial cognition, developing the Schema Theory
and the Catch Model, and introducing Rakover & Cahlon's discovery of the
proposed law of Face Recognition by Similarity (FRBS). (Series B)
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