Friday's Footprint

How Society Shapes the Human Mind

Häftad, Engelska, 2001

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Beskrivning

In this wide-ranging, highly readable book, Dr Leslie Brothers reveals the brain as a social organ - adapted to respond to and process specific social stimuli that are unique to human evolution. Findings from neuroscience, cognitive science, psychiatry, neuropsychology, anthropology, palaeontology, and sociology together present a convincing argument: that it is not possible to understand the products of human evolution - whether language, consciousness, or emotion - in the absence of a social context.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2001-11-01
Mått:237 x 153 x 13 mm
Vikt:295 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:208
Förlag:OUP USA
ISBN:9780195147049

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Mer om författaren

Leslie Brothers, M.D., is Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, UCLA School of Medicine.

Recensioner i media

Sociologists interested in an introduction to the developing fields of neurosociology will find a real treat in this volume... At minimum, Leslie Brothers provides strong neurological data to support the idea of the self as an owner of conscious experience, as well as the idea of the social nature of the physical brain itself.

Innehållsförteckning

1. A Failure to Connect ; 2. Building the Experience of Mind ; 3. The Brain's Social Specialization ; 4. The Editor Speaks ; 5. The Shift to a Social Perspective ; 6. Talking Faces ; 7. Worlds We Create ; 8. In Search of Emotion ; 9. Psychoanalytic Performances and Narratives ; 10. Exile's End