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Drive: Neurobiological and Molecular Mechanisms of Sexual Motivation
"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record. What arouses an animal or human from an inactive, nonresponsive state to a condition of activity and responsiveness? What are the biological mechanisms for this change? In this book Donald W. Pfaff focuses on a reproductive behavior typical of many female animals. Sensory stimuli from the male trigger responses in a well-defined circu…
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- 9780262281546
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 312 pages) :illustrations (some color).
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A Dynamic systems approach to development: Applications
"A Bradford book."AnnotationOCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0585038678
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 414 pages) :illustrations.
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Dynamical cognitive science
"A Bradford book."Dynamical Cognitive Science makes available to the cognitive science community the analytical tools and techniques of dynamical systems science, adding the variables of change and time to the study of human cognition. The unifying theme is that human behavior is an "unfolding in time" whose study should be augmented by the application of time-sensitive tools from disciplines s…
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- 9780262285797
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- 1 online resource (xv, 355 pages) :illustrations.
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On ambivalence :the problems and pleasures of having it both ways
A concise guide to ambivalence, from Adam and Eve (to eat the apple or not?) to Hamlet (to be or not?) to globalization (e pluribus unum or not?).Why is it so hard to make up our minds? Adam and Eve set the template: Do we or don't we eat the apple? They chose, half-heartedly, and nothing was ever the same again. With this book, Kenneth Weisbrode offers a crisp, literate, and provocative introd…
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- 9780262301824
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- 1 online resource (81 pages)
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Biopolitical Screens: Image, Power, and the Neoliberal Brain
"In Biopolitical Screens, Pasi V?aliaho charts and conceptualizes the imagery that composes our affective and conceptual reality under twenty-first-century capitalism. V?aliaho investigates the role screen media play in the networks that today harness human minds and bodies--the ways that images animated on console game platforms, virtual reality technologies, and computer screens capture human…
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- 9780262324533
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Investigating the Psychological World: Scientific Method in the Behavioral Sc…
"A Bradford book."Brian Haig constructs a broad theory of scientific method, which speaks to the conduct of psychological research. This abductive theory of method (ATOM) portrays research as a bottom-up process comprising two broad phases: the detection of empirical phenomena, and the construction of explanatory theories in order to explain claims about the phenomena. ATOM functions as a broad…
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- 9780262322379
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- 1 online resource (218 pages).
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The Neural Basis of Free Will: Criterial Causation
The issues of mental causation, consciousness, and free will have vexed philosophers since Plato. In this book, Peter Tse examines these unresolved issues from a neuroscientific perspective.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262313155
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- 1 online resource (xii, 456 pages) :illustrations
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Scripting Reading Motions: The Codex and the Computer as Self-Reflexive Machines
An exploration of what experimental literature in both print and programmable media tells us about the act of reading.In Scripting Reading Motions, Manuel Portela explores the expressive use of book forms and programmable media in experimental works of both print and electronic literature and finds a self-conscious play with the dynamics of reading and writing. Portela examines a series of prin…
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- 9781461943303
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- 1 online resource (ix, 410 pages) :illustrations
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How Things Shape the Mind: A Theory of Material Engagement
An account of the different ways in which things have become cognitive extensions of the human body, from prehistory to the present.An increasingly influential school of thought in cognitive science views the mind as embodied, extended, and distributed rather than brain-bound or "all in the head." This shift in perspective raises important questions about the relationship between cognition and …
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- 9781461935674
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- 1 online resource (xv, 304 pages)
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The Interdisciplinary Science of Consumption
Scholars from psychology, neuroscience, economics, animal behavior, and evolution describe the latest research on the causes and consequences of overconsumption.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262325387
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- 1 online resource (xxiii, 318 pages) :illustrations
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