The neuron and the mind: microneuronal theory and practice in cognitive neuroscience

This volume, a companion to William R. Uttal's earlier work on macrotheories theories of mind-brain relationships, reviews another set of theories - those based on microneuronal measurements.

Microneural theories maintain the integrity of individual neurons either in isolation or as participants in the great neuronal networks that make up the physical brain.

Despite an almost universal acceptance by cognitive neuroscientists that the intangible mind must, in some way, be encoded by network states, Uttal shows that the problem of how the transformation occurs is not yet supported by empirical research findings at the micro as well as at the macro levels of analysis.