Vital Models
The Making and Use of Models in the Brain Sciences

Explores the history and use of 3D models of the brain in research and teaching and the development of digital models and simulations

Tara Mahfoud (Volume editor), Sam McLean (Volume editor), Nikolas Rose (Volume editor)

9780128042151

Hardback, published 12 August 2017

246 pages
23.4 x 19 x 2.1 cm, 0.67 kg

Approx.226 pages

Preface Tara Mahfoud, Sam McLean and Nikolas Rose 1. Vital brains: On the entanglement of media, minds, and models Cornelius Borck 2. Slicing the cortex to study mental illness: Alois Alzheimer’s pictures of equivalence Lara Keuck 3. Opaque models: Using drugs and dreams to explore the neurobiological basis of mental phenomena Nicolas Langlitz 4. Man not a machine: models, minds, and mental labor, c.1980 Max Stadler 5. Infrastructural intelligence: Contemporary entanglements of neuroscience and AI Johannes Bruder 6. Learning from large-scale neural simulations Maria Serban 7. Connectomes as constitutively epistemic objects: critical perspectives on modeling in current neuroanatomy Philipp Haueis, Jan Slaby 8. Bridging the gap between system and cell: The role of ultra-high field MRI in human neuroscience Robert Turner, Daniel De Haan

Subject Areas: Neurosciences [PSAN], Neurology & clinical neurophysiology [MJN]