Perspectives in Cognitive Neuroscience – serie
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6 produkter
Psychophysiology
The Mind-Body Perspective
Häftad, 2001
467 kr
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In our high-speed culture, terms like "stressed-out," "Type-A personality," "biofeedback," and "relaxation response" have become commonplaces. More than ever before, we are aware of the relationship between our mental and emotional states and our physical well-being. Findings from the field of …
Hemispheric Asymmetry
What's Right and What's Left
Häftad, 2001
524 kr
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Is "right-brain" thought essentially creative, and "left-brain" strictly logical? Joseph B. Hellige argues that this view is far too simplistic. Surveying extensive data in the field of cognitive science, he disentangles scientific facts from popular assumptions about the brain's two hemispheres.In …
Neural Plasticity
The Effects of Environment on the Development of the Cerebral Cortex
Inbunden, 2002
1017 kr
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Neural plasticity--the brain's ability to change in response to normal developmental processes, experience, and injury--is a critically important phenomenon for both neuroscience and psychology. Increasing evidence about the extent of plasticity--long past the supposedly critical first three …
Human Language and Our Reptilian Brain
The Subcortical Bases of Speech, Syntax, and Thought
Häftad, 2002
465 kr
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This book is an entry into the fierce current debate among psycholinguists, neuroscientists, and evolutionary theorists about the nature and origins of human language. A prominent neuroscientist here takes up the Darwinian case, using data seldom considered by psycholinguists and neurolinguists to …
Brain’s Sense of Movement
Häftad, 2002
202 kr
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The neuroscientist Alain Berthoz experimented on Russian astronauts in space to answer these questions: How does weightlessness affect motion? How are motion and three-dimensional space perceived? In this erudite and witty book, Berthoz describes how human beings on earth perceive and control …
Mind Time
The Temporal Factor in Consciousness
Häftad, 2005
291 kr
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Our subjective inner life is what really matters to us as human beings--and yet we know relatively little about how it arises. Over a long and distinguished career Benjamin Libet has conducted experiments that have helped us see, in clear and concrete ways, how the brain produces conscious …
