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Encyclopedia of the Human Brain

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Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0080548032
Total Pages : 3607 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of the Human Brain written by and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2002-07-04 with total page 3607 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past decade, enormous strides have been made in understanding the human brain. The advent of sophisticated new imaging techniques (e.g. PET, MRI, MEG, etc.) and new behavioral testing procedures have revolutionized our understanding of the brain, and we now know more about the anatomy, functions, and development of this organ than ever before. However, much of this knowledge is scattered across scientific journals and books in a diverse group of specialties: psychology, neuroscience, medicine, etc. The Encyclopedia of the Human Brain places all information in a single source and contains clearly written summaries on what is known of the human brain. Covering anatomy, physiology, neuropsychology, clinical neurology, neuropharmacology, evolutionary biology, genetics, and behavioral science, this four-volume encyclopedia contains over 200 peer reviewed signed articles from experts around the world. The Encyclopedia articles range in size from 5-30 printed pages each, and contain a definition paragraph, glossary, outline, and suggested readings, in addition to the body of the article. Lavishly illustrated, the Encyclopedia includes over 1000 figures, many in full color. Managing both breadth and depth, the Encyclopedia is a must-have reference work for life science libraries and researchers investigating the human brain.

Encyclopedia of the Mind

Author : Harold Pashler
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1412950570
Total Pages : 897 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of the Mind written by Harold Pashler and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2013-01-14 with total page 897 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's hard to conceive of a topic of more broad and personal interest than the study of the mind. In addition to its traditional investigation by the disciplines of psychology, psychiatry, and neuroscience, the mind has also been a focus of study in the fields of philosophy, economics, anthropology, linguistics, computer science, molecular biology, education, and literature. In all these approaches, there is an almost universal fascination with how the mind works and how it affects our lives and our behavior. Studies of the mind and brain have crossed many exciting thresholds in recent years, and the study of mind now represents a thoroughly cross-disciplinary effort. Researchers from a wide range of disciplines seek answers to such questions as: What is mind? How does it operate? What is consciousness? This encyclopedia brings together scholars from the entire range of mind-related academic disciplines from across the arts and humanities, social sciences, life sciences, and computer science and engineering to explore the multidimensional nature of the human mind.

Encyclopedia of the Mind

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (843 download)

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Encyclopedia of the Mind

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (124 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of the Mind written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Encyclopedia of the Mind, Vol. I.

Author : Harold Pashler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781410000002
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of the Mind, Vol. I. written by Harold Pashler and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Mechanical Mind

Author : Tim Crane
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317331788
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book The Mechanical Mind written by Tim Crane and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can the human mind represent the external world? What is thought, and can it be studied scientifically? Should we think of the mind as a kind of machine? Is the mind a computer? Can a computer think? Tim Crane sets out to answer these questions and more in a lively and straightforward way, presuming no prior knowledge of philosophy or related disciplines. Since its first publication, The Mechanical Mind has introduced thousands of people to some of the most important ideas in contemporary philosophy of mind. Crane explains the fundamental ideas that cut across philosophy of mind, artificial intelligence and cognitive science: what the mind–body problem is; what a computer is and how it works; what thoughts are and how computers and minds might have them. He examines different theories of the mind from dualist to eliminativist, and questions whether there can be thought without language and whether the mind is subject to the same causal laws as natural phenomena. The result is a fascinating exploration of the theories and arguments surrounding the notions of thought and representation. This third edition has been fully revised and updated, and includes a wholly new chapter on externalism about mental content and the extended and embodied mind. There is a stronger emphasis on the environmental and bodily context in which thought occurs. Many chapters have been reorganised to make the reader’s passage through the book easier. The book now contains a much more detailed guide to further reading, and the chronology and the glossary of technical terms have also been updated. The Mechanical Mind is accessible to anyone interested in the mechanisms of our minds, and essential reading for those studying philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, or cognitive psychology.

Encyclopedia of the Mind, Vol. II.

Author : Harold Pashler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781410000002
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Encyclopedia of the Mind, Vol. II. written by Harold Pashler and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Mind Map Book

Author : Tony Buzan
Publisher : Pearson Education
ISBN 13 : 9781406610208
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book The Mind Map Book written by Tony Buzan and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2006 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Have you ever wanted to improve your memory, creativity, concentration, communicative ability, thinking skills, learning skills, general intelligence and quickness of mind? The Mind Map Book, part of Tony Buzans revolutionary Mind Set series, introduces you to a unique thinking tool which allows you to accomplish all these goals and much more. Mind Maps make it easy to: remember things, think up brilliant ideas, plan a presentation or report, persuade people and negotiate, plan personal goal and much more. Mind Maps make it easy to: remember things, think up brilliant ideas, plan a presentation or report, persuade people and negotiate, plan personal goals, gain control of your life. The Mind Map, which has been called the Swiss army knife for the brain is a ground-breaking note-taking technique that is already used by more than 250 million people worldwide."--Publisher.

Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science

Author : Lynn Nadel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1214 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science written by Lynn Nadel and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 1214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviews the themes: information, information processing, representation, and computation, psychology, philosophy, linguistics, computer science, neuroscience, education, economics, evolutionary biology, anthropology.

States of Brain and Mind

Author : HOBSON
Publisher : Birkhäuser
ISBN 13 : 1489967710
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (899 download)

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Download or read book States of Brain and Mind written by HOBSON and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Philosophy of Mind

Author : Jaegwon Kim
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429974485
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy of Mind written by Jaegwon Kim and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores a range of issues in the philosophy of mind, with the mind-body problem as the main focus. It serves as a stimulus to the reader to engage with the problems of the mind and try to come to terms with them, and examines Descartes's mind-body dualism.

Mind-Body Awareness for Singers

Author : Karen Leigh-Post
Publisher : Plural Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1597566608
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book Mind-Body Awareness for Singers written by Karen Leigh-Post and published by Plural Publishing. This book was released on 2017-07-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

God, Science and Mind

Author : Dennis Polis
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1105964019
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book God, Science and Mind written by Dennis Polis and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-07-15 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exercise in Open Philosophy -- a worldview open to the full range of human experience including science, spirituality and traditional philosophy. Naturalism is exposed as a closed, a priori worldview. God is not an alternative to, but the completion of, scientific explanation. The foundations and data of evolution do not show randomness, but Mind in nature. Evolution aims at verifiable targets and develops means in advance of need. While God is proven deductively, the fine-tuning argument makes a strong case despite the anthropic principle. The rules of evidence are discussed critically before reviewing data on mind ranging from neuroscience, connectionism, & cybernetics to introspection, parapsychology, near death experiences & mysticism -- even I-Thou relationships. Current theories are inadequate to important data points. Traditional philosophy suggests a single substance, two-subsystem theory integrating a data processing brain and an intentional, immaterial soul to solve the mind-body problem.

The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences (MITECS)

Author : Robert A. Wilson
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262731447
Total Pages : 1106 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (314 download)

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Book Synopsis The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences (MITECS) by : Robert A. Wilson

Download or read book The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences (MITECS) written by Robert A. Wilson and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2001-09-04 with total page 1106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1970s the cognitive sciences have offered multidisciplinary ways of understanding the mind and cognition. The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences (MITECS) is a landmark, comprehensive reference work that represents the methodological and theoretical diversity of this changing field. At the core of the encyclopedia are 471 concise entries, from Acquisition and Adaptationism to Wundt and X-bar Theory. Each article, written by a leading researcher in the field, provides an accessible introduction to an important concept in the cognitive sciences, as well as references or further readings. Six extended essays, which collectively serve as a roadmap to the articles, provide overviews of each of six major areas of cognitive science: Philosophy; Psychology; Neurosciences; Computational Intelligence; Linguistics and Language; and Culture, Cognition, and Evolution. For both students and researchers, MITECS will be an indispensable guide to the current state of the cognitive sciences.

Unity of Body and Soul or Mind-Brain-Being?

Author : Marcus Knaup
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3476047180
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book Unity of Body and Soul or Mind-Brain-Being? written by Marcus Knaup and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-11-21 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship between our living body and our soul, our mental expressions of life and our physical environment, are both classical topics for discussion and ones which currently present themselves as part of a truly exciting philosophical debate: are we today still able to speak of a “soul”? And what is meant by a (living) body (German: “Leib”)? Does our brain dictate what we will and do? Or do we have free will? Why are we the same people tomorrow that we were yesterday? Given the discoveries of the modern neural sciences, can human beings still be understood in the context of the unity of body and soul? Or should we rather define ourselves as mind-brain beings (German: Gehirn-Geist-Gestalten)? Marcus Knaup explores these questions and discusses the most relevant approaches and arguments concerning the (living) body-soul debate. His own approach to current chal-lenges presented by modern brain research emanates from his bringing together Aristotelian Hylomorphism and phenomenology of the living body (German: “Leibphänomenologie”).

Physics of the Human Mind

Author : Ihor Lubashevsky
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319517066
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Physics of the Human Mind written by Ihor Lubashevsky and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-02-12 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tackles the challenging question which mathematical formalisms and possibly new physical notions should be developed for quantitatively describing human cognition and behavior, in addition to the ones already developed in the physical and cognitive sciences. Indeed, physics is widely used in modeling social systems, where, in particular, new branches of science such as sociophysics and econophysics have arisen. However, many if not most characteristic features of humans like willingness, emotions, memory, future prediction, and moral norms, to name but a few, are not yet properly reflected in the paradigms of physical thought and theory. The choice of a relevant formalism for modeling mental phenomena requires the comprehension of the general philosophical questions related to the mind-body problem. Plausible answers to these questions are investigated and reviewed, notions and concepts to be used or to be taken into account are developed and some challenging questions are posed as open problems. This text addresses theoretical physicists and neuroscientists modeling any systems and processes where human factors play a crucial role, philosophers interested in applying philosophical concepts to the construction of mathematical models, and the mathematically oriented psychologists and sociologists, whose research is fundamentally related to modeling mental processes.

Exploring the Landscape of the Mind

Author : Stephen S. Clark
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1524519162
Total Pages : 535 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (245 download)

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Download or read book Exploring the Landscape of the Mind written by Stephen S. Clark and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-04-19 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is based on the premise that humankind is, first and foremost, the outcome of the process of biological evolution. Recognition of this is fundamental to our understanding of who we are and how we behave. All living things have evolved the physical and mental attributes that promote their prospects for survival; they are good at doing the things that enable them to pass on their genes to succeeding generations, and we are no exception. Of course, through the development of culture, we have gained some freedom from our biological origins. Nevertheless, evolution has constructed the foundation upon which culture is built. The first part of the book, Ourselves Interacting with the World, presents an overview of the main capabilities that evolution has endowed us with and that enable us to interact with the environment in advantageous ways. This includes our senses, which act as windows on the world and also, of great importance, our emotions and ability to remember. Our ability to think is perhaps the crowning achievement of our evolutionary journey, and, of course, we must be able to act in a timely and effective manner. The second part of the book, Living Together, traces the history of how we became social creatures. To be truly human, we had to be capable of sharing and cooperation. We also needed to be able to control our aggressiveness and talent for deception. We settled down, making the transition from hunter-gatherers to urban dwellers, and agreed upon values and norms of behavior that enhanced our ability to get along. Ultimately, we came to see good and bad as a morality of right and wrong, further augmenting group cohesiveness. In the final part of the book, Challenges and Opportunities, attention turns to a consideration of the constraints and possibilities that must be considered in looking to the future. These realities can be seen to play out in four social arenas: the pursuit of fairness, the seeking of justice, the interplay of political beliefs and good government, and ultimately, a united society that is, at the same time, a true community. Our quest for these things will be greatly aided by a deep knowledge and appreciation of our evolutionary past and the indelible imprint it has left upon us. It may even lead us to that most elusive of all things, happiness.