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The Social Neuroscience of Empathy
"A Bradford book."In recent decades, empathy research has blossomed into a vibrant and multidisciplinary field of study. This text collects cross-disciplinary, cutting-edge work on human empathy from the perspectives of social, cognitive, developmental and clinincal psychology and cognitive/affective neuroscience.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262255295
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- 1 online resource (ix, 255 pages) :illustrations.
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Inner Experience and Neuroscience: Merging Both Perspectives
"A Bradford Book."A proposal for merging a science of human consciousness with neuroscience and psychology. The study of consciousness has advanced rapidly over the last two decades. And yet there is no clear path to creating models for a direct science of human experience or for integrating its insights with those of neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy. In Inner Experience and Neuroscienc…
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- 9780262305204
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- 1 online resource (x, 345 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations (some color)
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Fundamentals of neural network modeling : neuropsychology and cognitive neuro…
Over the past few years, computer modeling has become more prevalent in the clinical sciences as an alternative to traditional symbol-processing models. This book provides an introduction to the neural network modeling of complex cognitive and neuropsychological processes. It is intended to make the neural network approach accessible to practicing neuropsychologists, psychologists, neurologists…
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- 0585108358
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 428 pages) : illustrations.
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- 001 FUN
The cognitive-emotional brain: From interactions to integration
The idea that a specific brain circuit constitutes the emotional brain shaped thinking about emotion and the brain for many years. Recent behavioural, neuropsychological, neuroanatomy, and neuroimaging research, however, suggests that emotion interacts with cognition in the brain. In this book, Luiz Pessoa moves beyond the debate over functional specialization, describing the many ways that emo…
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- 9780262314756
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- 1 online resource (320 pages)
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Biological learning and control: How the brain builds representations, predic…
In this work, the authors present a theoretical framework for understanding the regularity of the brain's perceptions, its reactions to sensory stimuli, and its control of movements.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262301282
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- 1 online resource (385 pages) :illustrations.
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The evolved apprentice: How evolution made humans unique
"A Bradford book."Kim Sterelny develops a novel account of the speed and extent of human evolutionary divergence from the great ape stock. The book does not explain human uniqueness by positing a critical adaptive breakthrough (episodic memory; advanced theory of mind; planning and causal reasoning; language). Rather, it identifies a series of positive feedback loops between initially minor adv…
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- 9780262302814
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 242 pages).
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Does Consciousness Cause Behavior?
Continuing the debate over whether consciousness causes behaviour or plays no functional role in it, leading scholars discuss the question in terms of neuroscience, philosophy, law and public policy.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262281690
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- 1 online resource (vi, 364 pages) :illustrations
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Dreaming as Delirium: How the Brain Goes Out of Its Mind
Includes index.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record. In this book J. Allan Hobson sets out a compelling—and controversial—theory of consciousness. Our brain-mind, as he calls it, is not a fixed identity but a dynamic balancing act between the chemical systems that regulate waking and dreaming.
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- 9780262287036
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 300 pages)
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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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