Neuropsychology category: 992 books
The Consciousness Instinct
Unraveling the Mystery of How the Brain Makes the Mind
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
“The father of cognitive neuroscience” illuminates the past, present, and future of the mind-brain problem
How do neurons turn into minds? How does physical “stuff”—atoms, molecules, chemicals, and cells—create the vivid and various worlds inside our heads? The problem of consciousness...
The Brain Book
Know Your Own Mind and How to Use it
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
First published in 1980. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Feeling Beauty
The Neuroscience of Aesthetic Experience
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
A theory of the neural bases of aesthetic experience across the arts, which draws on the tools of both cognitive neuroscience and traditional humanist inquiry.
In Feeling Beauty, G. Gabrielle Starr argues that understanding the neural underpinnings of aesthetic experience can reshape our conceptions...
by A. D. Thibeault
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2014
A full executive summary of How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed by Ray Kurzweil. This is not a chapter-by-chapter summary. Rather, the author takes an holistic approach, reorganizing and breaking down the content for easier understanding where necessary, and cutting out the...
The Body Has a Mind of Its Own
How Body Maps in Your Brain Help You Do (Almost) Everything Better
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2008
In this compelling, cutting-edge book, two generations of science writers explore the exciting science of “body maps” in the brain–and how startling new discoveries about the mind-body connection can change and improve our lives. Why do you still feel fat after losing weight? What makes video...
The Happiness of Pursuit
What Neuroscience Can Teach Us About the Good Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
When fishing for happiness, catch and release. Remember these seven words-they are the keys to being happy. So says Shimon Edelman, an expert on psychology and the mind.
In The Happiness of Pursuit, Edelman offers a fundamental understanding of pleasure and joy via the brain. Using the concept...
Looking Inside the Brain
The Power of Neuroimaging
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
It is now possible to witness human brain activity while we are talking, reading, or thinking, thanks to revolutionary neuroimaging techniques like magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). These groundbreaking advances have opened infinite fields of investigation—into such areas as musical perception,...
The Basal Ganglia
Novel Perspectives on Motor and Cognitive Functions
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
This groundbreaking text takes current knowledge of the basal ganglia far from well-known motor-based models to a more inclusive understanding of deep-brain structure and function. Synthesizing diverse perspectives from across the brain-behavioral sciences, it tours the neuroanatomy and circuitry...
Brain, Mind and Consciousness
Advances in Neuroscience Research
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2011
Neuropsychological research on the neural basis of behavior generally asserts that brain mechanisms ultimately suffice to explain all psychologically described phenomena. This assumption stems from the idea that the brain consists entirely of material particles and fields, and that all causal mechanisms...
Brain Mechanisms in Problem Solving and Intelligence
A Lesion Survey of the Rat Brain
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
This book is the outcome of a decade of research on the neu roanatomical mechanisms of learning in the young laboratory rat. It is essentially a discourse on the functional organization of the brain in relation to problem-solving ability and intelli gence. During the period between 1980 and 1989,...
Near-Death Experiences
Heavenly Insight or Human Illusion?
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2014
The expression "Near-Death Experience" is associated in the popular understanding with access to knowledge about our transition between the states of life and death. But how should such experiences be interpreted? Are they verifiable with scientific methods? If so, how can they be explained?...
by Leonard F. Koziol, Deborah Ely Budding, Dana Chidekel
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
ADHD as a Model of Brain-Behavior Relationships
Leonard F. Koziol, Deborah Ely Budding, and Dana Chidekel
Series Title: Springer Briefs in Neuroscience
Subseries: The Vertically Organized Brain in Theory and Practice
It's been a basic neurological given: the brain does...
Consciousness and the Brain
Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
**WINNER OF THE 2014 BRAIN PRIZE
From the acclaimed author of Reading in the Brain, a breathtaking look at the new science that can track consciousness deep in the brain**
How does our brain generate a conscious thought? And why does so much of our knowledge remain unconscious? Thanks...
Touch and Blindness
Psychology and Neuroscience
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2006
Research on touch and blindness has undergone rapid transformation in recent years, with dramatic developments in technology designed to provide assistance to those who are blind, and advancements in robotics that demand haptic interfaces. Touch and Blindness approaches the study of the topic from...