Daedalus 144:1 (Winter 2015) - What is the Brain Good For?

Dædalus was founded in 1955 as the Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. It draws on the enormous intellectual capacity of the American Academy, whose members are among the nation's most prominent thinkers in the arts, sciences, and humanities. The theme for the Winter 2015 issue is “What is the Brain Good For?”

Contents

Neuroscience: The Study of the Nervous System & Its Function
Fred H. Gage

Brain Mechanisms for Active Vision
Robert H. Wurtz

Perceiving
Thomas D. Albright

The Energetic Ear
A. J. Hudspeth

Remembering
Larry R. Squire & John T. Wixted

Sleep, Memory & Brain Rhythms
Brendon O. Watson & György Buzsáki

A Hard Scientific Quest: Understanding Voluntary Movements
Emilio Bizzi & Robert Ajemian

Feelings: What Are They & How Does the Brain Make Them?
Joseph E. LeDoux

Working Memory Capacity: Limits on the Bandwidth of Cognition
Earl K. Miller & Timothy J. Buschman

Consciousness
Terrence J. Sejnowski