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Whistled Languages A Worldwide Inquiry on Human Whistled Speech
The main focus of this monograph on whistled speech is the result of a worldwide inquiry primarily based on the author’s unprecedented fieldwork and laboratory experience. The different questions raised by the origin and the evolution of whistled forms of languages are also explored, including the role of environmental constraints in the emergence of whistled speech, their phonetic and phonol…
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The brain abstracted :simplification in the history and philosophy of neurosc…
"An opinionated history of neuroscience, which argues that--due to the brain's complexity--neuroscientific theories have only captured partial truths, and therefore "neurophilosophy" is unlikely to be achieved"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262378628
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How your brain works :a step-by-step guide to hands-on neuroscience experimen…
Includes index."A fun, informative, illustrated guide to hands-on experiments for home or the classroom that explain the principles of neuroscience; including electrophysiology, neuroengineering, & neuroethology"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262371285
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Intervention in the brain :politics, policy, and ethics
The political and policy implications of recent developments in neuroscience, including new techniques in imaging and neurogenetics. New findings in neuroscience have given us unprecedented knowledge about the workings of the brain. Innovative research--much of it based on neuroimaging results--suggests not only treatments for neural disorders but also the possibility of increasingly precise an…
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- 0262313731
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A hole in the head :more tales in the history of neuroscience
Essays on great figures and important issues, advances and blind alleys-from trepanation to the discovery of grandmother cells-in the history of brain sciences.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262258852
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- 1 online resource (x, 356 pages) :illustrations
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Moral psychology.
"For much of the twentieth century, philosophy and science went their separate ways. In moral philosophy, fear of the so-called naturalistic fallacy kept moral philosophers from incorporating developments in biology and psychology. Since the 1990s, however, many philosophers have drawn on recent advances in cognitive psychology, brain science, and evolutionary psychology to inform their work. T…
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Moral psychology.
"For much of the twentieth century, philosophy and science went their separate ways. In moral philosophy, fear of the so-called naturalistic fallacy kept moral philosophers from incorporating developments in biology and psychology. Since the 1990s, however, many philosophers have drawn on recent advances in cognitive psychology, brain science, and evolutionary psychology to inform their work. T…
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Moral psychology.
"For much of the twentieth century, philosophy and science went their separate ways. In moral philosophy, fear of the so-called naturalistic fallacy kept moral philosophers from incorporating developments in biology and psychology. Since the 1990s, however, many philosophers have drawn on recent advances in cognitive psychology, brain science, and evolutionary psychology to inform their work. T…
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Brain, vision, memory :tales in the history of neuroscience
"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 255 pages) :illustrations
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Radiant cool :a novel theory of consciousness
"A Bradford book."An innovative theory of consciousness, drawing on the phenomenology of Edmund Husserl and supported by brain-imaging, presented in the form of a hardboiled detective story.Professor Grue is dead (or is he?). When graduate student/sleuth Miranda Sharpe discovers him slumped over his keyboard, she does the sensible thing--she grabs her dissertation and runs. Little does she susp…
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