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Decisions, Uncertainty, and the Brain: The Science of Neuroeconomics
"A Bradford book."In this provocative book, Paul Glimcher argues that economic theory may provide an alternative to the classical Cartesian model of the brain and behavior. Glimcher argues that Cartesian dualism operates from the false premise that the reflex is able to describe behavior in the real world that animals inhabit. A mathematically rich cognitive theory, he claims, could solve the m…
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Neuroscience of creativity
This volume offers a comprehensive overview of the latest neuroscientific approaches to the scientific study of creativity. In chapters that progress logically from neurobiological fundamentals to systems of neuroscience and neuro-imaging, leading scholars describe the latest theoretical, genetic, structural, clinical, functional, and applied research on the neural bases of creativity.OCLC-lice…
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- 9781461943266
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- 1 online resource (xv, 314 pages) :illustrations (some color).
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Blind Vision: The Neuroscience of Visual Impairment
Can a blind person see? The very idea seems paradoxical. Here the authors examine the effects of blindness and other types of visual deficit on the development and functioning of the human cognitive system.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Dynamic Coordination in the Brain: From Neurons to Mind
This text is an examination of how widely distributed and specialized activities of the brain are flexibly and effectively coordinated.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Experienced Wholeness: Integrating Insights from Gestalt Theory, Cognitive Ne…
An interdisciplinary account of phenomenal unity, investigating how experiential wholes can be characterized and how such characterizations can be analyzed computationally. How can we account for phenomenal unity? That is, how can we characterize and explain our experience of objects and groups of objects, bodily experiences, successions of events, and the attentional structure of consciousness…
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The neurocognitive theory of dreaming :the where, how, when, what, and why of…
"An up-to-date synthesis of the neurocognitive theory of dreaming as presented by its founder"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Intrusive thinking :from molecules to free will
"This volume explores the neurological and behavioral mechanisms and processes involved in intrusive thinking and suggests avenues for future clinically relevant research"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262363666
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 455 pages) :illustrations.
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Neuroscience and philosophy
"State-of-the-art collection on how neuroscience and philosophy can mutually illuminate each other on core psychological concepts. An interdisciplinary collection in the best sense"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Reason and less :pursuing food, sex, and politics
"New theoretical model of human reasoning proposed by a leading researcher in the cognitive neurosciences. Explains why people are never fully rational in their decision-making"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Who you are :the science of connectedness
Why you are more than just a brain, more than just a brain-and-body, and more than all your assumptions about who you are. Who are you Are you just a brain A brain and a body All the things you have done and the friends you have made Many of us assume that who we really are is something deep inside us, an inner sanctuary that contains our true selves. In Who You Are , Michael Spivey argues that…
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