"Neuroscience research has exploded, with more than fifty thousand neuroscientists applying increasingly advanced methods. A mountain of new facts and mechanisms has emerged. And yet a principled framework to organize this knowledge has been missing. In this book, Peter Sterling…
In 1895 Freud attempted to join the emerging discipline of psychoanalysis with the neuroscience of the time. He was forced to abandon his project, however, due to the lack of pertinent neuroscientific knowledge available to him. A hundred years on, we now have the relevant data …
In 1895 Freud attempted to join the emerging discipline of psychoanalysis with the neuroscience of the time. He was forced to abandon his project, however, due to the lack of pertinent neuroscientific knowledge available to him. A hundred years on, we now have the relevant data …
"Language makes us human. It is an intrinsic part of us, although we seldom think about it. Language is also an extremely complex entity with subcomponents responsible for its phonological, syntactic, and semantic aspects. In this landmark work, Angela Friederici offers a compre…
Biologic Regulation of Physical Activity provides readers with a cutting-edge perspective of underlying issues that may contribute to the obesity epidemic. It offers evidence of a biologic regulator affecting physical activity and explores implications of such biologic control o…
This book delineates practical, tested, general methods for ultraviolet, visible, and infrared spectrometry in clear language for novice users, and serves as a reference resource for advanced spectroscopists. Applied Spectroscopy includes important information and equations whic…
The Cognitive Electrophysiology of Mind and Brain presents state-of-the-art reviews of the latest developments in the study of the relationships between mind and brain as revealed using the recording of bioelectric (ERPs) and magnetic responses (ERFs) of the brain. PET and fMRI …
This book is a pathbreaking exploration into how and why the human organism -- and the ebb and flow of the cosmos -- is moved by the undeniable effect of music. As Elena Mannes reveals in her eye-opening book, we are at a breakthrough moment in music research, for only recently …
Images of mind
by Posner, Michael I., Raichle, Marcus E.
fromA Scientific American Library paperback
Connectomics: applications to neuroimaging
Connectomics: applications to neuroimaging
"Renowned neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux digs into the natural history of life on earth to provide a new perspective on the similarities between us and our ancestors in deep time. This page-turning survey of the whole of terrestrial evolution sheds new light on how nervous systems…