In this thought-provoking narrative - drawn from professional expertise and personal experience - trailblazing neurophilosopher Patricia S. Churchland lucidly explains the latest brain science and explores its ethical and philosophical implications for our understanding of ident…
In this thought-provoking narrative - drawn from professional expertise and personal experience - trailblazing neurophilosopher Patricia S. Churchland lucidly explains the latest brain science and explores its ethical and philosophical implications for our understanding of ident…
Edited by two leading health psychologists, The Handbook of Stress Science presents a detailed overview of key topics in stress and health psychology. With discussions on how stress influences physical health-including its effects on the nervous, endocrine, cardiovascular, and i…
The author explores how the brain engages in complex decision-making; how it deals with novelty and ambiguity; and how it addresses moral choices. The author also challenges entrenched assumptions. For example, we know the left hemisphere of the brain is the seat of language--bu…
Elkhonon Goldberg's groundbreaking The Executive Brain was a classic of scientific writing, revealing how the frontal lobes command the most human parts of the mind. Now he offers a completely new book, providing fresh, iconoclastic ideas about the relationship between the brain…
"Gut Reactions is an interdisciplinary defense of the claim that emotions are perceptions of changes in the body. This thesis, pioneered by William James and resuscitated by Antonio Damasio, has been widely criticized for failing to acknowledge that emotions are meaningful insof…
"Gut Reactions is an interdisciplinary defense of the claim that emotions are perceptions of changes in the body. This thesis, pioneered by William James and resuscitated by Antonio Damasio, has been widely criticized for failing to acknowledge that emotions are meaningful insof…
"Gut Reactions is an interdisciplinary defense of the claim that emotions are perceptions of changes in the body. This thesis, pioneered by William James and resuscitated by Antonio Damasio, has been widely criticized for failing to acknowledge that emotions are meaningful insof…
A cognitive framework for an integrative psychophysiological approach to the study of mind and brain. -- Cognitive processing in the intact Brain. -- Neural mechanisms of selective attention. -- Clinical and Applied Perspectives. -- Appendixes.
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 …
Cognitive electrophysiology is a very well established field utilizing new technologies such as bioelectric events-related potentials (ERP) and magnetic (ERF) recordings to pursue the investigation of mind and brain. Current research focuses on reviewing ERP/ERF findings in the …
