TY - BOOK AU - Guillery, Ray TI - The Brain as a Tool: A Neuroscientist's Account SN - 9780198806738 U1 - 150 PY - 2017/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Psychomotor Performance - physiology N1 - Part I How Do We Relate To The World? 1. The role of the brain 2. The pathways for perception 3. The pathways for action 4. The subcortical motor centres Part II My Route To The Thalamic Gate 5. Starting to study the brain 6. The mamillothalamic pathways: My first encounter with the thalamus 7. Comparative studies of the hypothalamus that led to studies of thalamic synapses Part III Arriving At The Thalamic Gate 8. Defining the functional components of the thalamic gate 9. Thalamic higher order driver inputs as sensorimotor links 10. The hierarchy of cortical monitors Part IV Higher Cortical Functions 11. Relating the neural connections to actions and perceptions 12. Interacting with the world 13. The role of the thalamocortical hierarchy 14. The neural origins of a sense of self with a brief note on free will conclusions ER -