Unlike any other species, humans can learn and use language. This book explains how the brain evolved to make language possible, through what Michael Arbib calls the Mirror System Hypothesis. Because of mirror neurons, monkeys, chimps, and humans can learn by imitation, but only…
Unlike any other species, humans can learn and use language. This book explains how the brain evolved to make language possible, through what the text calls the Mirror System Hypothesis. The theory explains why we humans are as capable of learning sign languages as we are of lea…
Drawing on evolutionary psychology to argue that depression has a useful function, this book offers insight into the true nature of depression, its causes, consequences and possible benefits. It is fully referenced, with definitions for technical terms, and tables, illustrations…
Is depression a disease, a medical disorder suffered by humans for millennia, or is it a modern western malaise? Actually, neither perspective is helpful in trying to get to grips with this uniquely disabling but intriguing state of mind. The truth is that depression is multifac…
"This book is a critical overview of ideas about depression, some new, some old, which fall under the discipline of 'evolutionary psychology'." "How Sadness Survived spans philosophy, history, anthropology, psychology, psychiatry, sociology and ethology. Its positive, controvers…
1. Approaches to the neuropsychology of art -- 2. The effects of brain damage in established visual artists -- 3. The eye and brain in artist and viewer : alterations in vision and color perception -- 4. Special visual artists : the effects of savant autism and slow brain atroph…
