Medicine, Mind, and the Double Brain
Title | Medicine, Mind, and the Double Brain PDF eBook |
Author | Anne Harrington |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | 352 |
Release | 2021-04-13 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0691228175 |
The description for this book, Medicine, Mind, and the Double Brain: A Study in Nineteenth-Century Thought, will be forthcoming.
The History of the Brain and Mind Sciences
Title | The History of the Brain and Mind Sciences PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen T. Casper |
Publisher | Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | 320 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 1580465951 |
How did epidemics, zoos, German exiles, methamphetamine, disgruntled technicians, modern bureaucracy, museums, and whipping cream shape the emergence of modern neuroscience?
Brain, Mind, and the Structure of Reality
Title | Brain, Mind, and the Structure of Reality PDF eBook |
Author | Paul L. Nunez |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 317 |
Release | 2012-05-24 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 0199914648 |
Does the brain create the mind, or is some external entity involved? This book synthesizes ideas borrowed from philosophy, religion, and science. Topics range widely from brain imagining of thought processes to quantum mechanics and the essential role of information in brains and physical systems.
Creating Mind
Title | Creating Mind PDF eBook |
Author | John E. Dowling |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | 232 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 9780393027464 |
What makes us human and unique among all creatures is our brain. Conciousness, perception, emotion, memory, learning, language and intelligence all originate in, and depend on, the brain. During the 20th century, our understanding of the brain has revealed many of the mechanisms by which the brain creates mind and consciousness.
Mind, Brain, and Adaptation in the Nineteenth Century
Title | Mind, Brain, and Adaptation in the Nineteenth Century PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Maxwell Young |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | 310 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Adaptability (Psychology) |
ISBN | 0195063899 |
The author examines ideas of the nature and localization of the functions of the brain in the light of the philosophical constraints at work in the sciences of mind and brain in the 19th century. Particular attention is paid to phrenology, sensory-motor physiology and associationist psychology.
The Origin of Mind
Title | The Origin of Mind PDF eBook |
Author | David C. Geary |
Publisher | Amer Psychological Assn |
Total Pages | 459 |
Release | 2005-01-01 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 9781591471813 |
"Geary also explores a number of issues that are of interest in modern society, including how general intelligence relates to academic achievement, occupational status, and income."--BOOK JACKET.
Action, Mind, and Brain
Title | Action, Mind, and Brain PDF eBook |
Author | David A. Rosenbaum |
Publisher | MIT Press |
Total Pages | 303 |
Release | 2022-02-08 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 0262368730 |
An engaging and accessible introduction to the psychology and neuroscience of physical action. This engaging and accessible book offers the first introductory text on the psychology and neuroscience of physical action. Written by a leading researcher in the field, it covers the interplay of action, mind, and brain, showing that many core concepts in philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, and technology grew out of questions about the control of everyday physical actions. It explains action not as a “one-way street from stimuli to response” but as a continual perception-action cycle. The informal writing style invites students to think through the evidence step by step, helping them develop general thinking stills as well as learn specific facts. Special emphasis is placed on the role of underrepresented groups. The book discusses the intellectual background of the field, from Plato to Kant, Dewey, and others; applications and methods; and the physical substrates of action—bones, tendons, ligaments, muscles, and nerves. It considers the control of actions in space; learning, and the roles of nature and nurture; feedback; feedforward, or anticipated feedback; and degrees of freedom—the multiple ways of getting things done and three methods for narrowing the alternatives. The book is generously illustrated, including many images of thinkers who contributed to the field.