Human social life is constrained and defined by our cognitive and emotional dispositions, which are the legacy of our foraging ancestors. But how difficult is it to reconstruct the social systems and cultural traditions of those ancestors? The Archaeology of Human Ancestry provi…
This book investigates certain philosophical issues concerning imagination, creativity, and the relationship between them. Is there a single mental act that we call #x91;imagining#x92;? How does imagining differ from perceiving and believing? What role do images play in imaginat…
"In Adapting Minds: Buller scrutinizes several of evolutionary psychology's most highly publicized "discoveries". Drawing on a wide range of empirical research, including his own large-scale study of child abuse, he shows that none is actually, supported by the evidence."--Jacke…
A leading pediatrician provides updated information on common symptoms and illnesses, medicines, behavior problems, healthy development, and treatment options for infants and children, from birth to adolescence.
This volume collects together peer reviewed versions of most of the papers presented at the Ninth Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop (NCPW9), held in 2004 at the University of Plymouth (England). The conference invited submissions on neural computation models of all cogn…
'Foundations of biopsychology' offers an engaging introduction to biopsychology for undergraduate students. Assuming no background knowledge in biology or psychology, the text relates examples to clinical conditions or treatments, allowing students to fully understand the releva…
One of the world's foremost primatologists explores what our two closest relatives in the animal kingdom--the violent, power-hungry chimpanzee and the cooperative, empathetic bonobo--can tell us about the duality of our own human nature. We have long attributed man's violent, ag…
