Ádám György: Perception, consciousness, memory. Reflections of a biologist (Budapest, 1980)
PERCEPTION, CONSCIOUSNESS, MEMORY Reflections of a Biologist by G. ADAM How does the brain get its information from the environment ? Are we informed about conditions prevailing in various internal organs of our body? What is meant by the “decoding activity” of the cortex ? What is the biologist’s opinion about conscious and unconscious processes? What experimental evidence do we have on the phases of sleep and dreaming? Can learning and memory be explained on biophysical and biochemical grounds ? These are just some of the intriguing questions to which Professor Adám of Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, seeks answers. Tn this popular seient ifie treatise he has collected up-to-date information on brain physiology and the biological processes of cerebral information uptake, processing, and storage. AKADÉMIAI KIADÓ Publishing House of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Budapest