Search results for “[Subject: life-sciences-neuroscience]”

• Author(s): Marc Wittmann • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - NeuroscienceWhat altered states of consciousness--the dissolution of feelings of time and self--can tell us about the mystery of consciousne...

• Author(s): Mitchell Glickstein • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: NeuroscienceAn introduction to the structure and function of the nervous system that emphasizes the history of experiments and observations that led t...

• Author(s): Michael D. Rugg • Publisher: Psychology Press • Publisher Imprint: Psychology Press • BISAC: Cognitive Psychology & CognitionProviding up-to-date and authoritative coverage of key topics in the new discipline of cognitive neurosc...

• Author(s): Charles A. Nelson • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: NeuroscienceThe second edition of an essential resource to the evolving field of developmental cognitive neuroscience, completely revised, with ...

• Author(s): Joshua Foer • Publisher: MixBZ • Publisher Imprint: MixBZ • Subject: General Books • BISAC: Life Sciences - NeuroscienceThe blockbuster phenomenon that charts an amazing journey of the mind while revolutionizing our concept of memory...

• Author(s): Charles G. Gross • Publisher: MIT Press (MA) • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press (MA) • BISAC: HistoryIn these engaging tales describing the growth of knowledge about the brain--from the early Egyptians and Greeks to the Dark Ages and the...

• Author(s): Randall C. O'Reilly | Yuko Munakata | James L. McClelland • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: NeuroscienceThis text, based on a course taught by Randall O'Reilly and Yuko Munakata over the past seve...

• Author(s): John S. Werner • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: NeuroscienceA comprehensive review of contemporary research in the vision sciences, reflecting the rapid advances of recent years.Visual science is...

• Author(s): Matthieu Ricard • Publisher: Mit Press • Publisher Imprint: Mit Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - NeuroscienceA Buddhist monk and esteemed neuroscientist discuss their converging--and diverging--views on the mind and self, consciousness...

• Author(s): Shimon Edelman • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: NeuropsychologyWhen fishing for happiness, catch and release. Remember these seven words -- they are the keys to being happy. So says Shimon Edelman, a...

• Author(s): Francis O. Schmitt | Frederic G. Worden | George Adelman • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: NeuroscienceThese published proceedings of a Neurosciences Research Program Colloquium do not deal exhaustively w...

• Author(s): Lori A. Schmied • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Neuroscience Neuroscience, like psychology, has a short history but a long past. Although the mind-body relationship has been ...

• Author(s): Charles G. Gross • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: NeuroscienceEssays on great figures and important issues, advances and blind alleys--from trepanation to the discovery of grandmother cells--in the histo...

• Author(s): Daniel H. Lende | Greg Downey • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: NeuroscienceBasic concepts and case studies from an emerging field that investigates human capacities and pathologies at the intersection of...

• Author(s): William Hirstein | Katrina L. Sifferd | Tyler K. Fagan • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Cognitive Psychology & CognitionAn examination of the relationship between the brain and culpability that offer...

• Author(s): Stephen G. Waxman | W. I. McDonald • Publisher: MIT Press (MA) • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press (MA) • BISAC: NeuropsychologyThis book reflects Stephen Waxman's three decades of research on the form and functions of the brain and spina...

• Author(s): Michel Meulders • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Science & TechnologyThe first biography in English of a nineteenth-century German scientist whose experimental approach influences today's neu...

• Author(s): Santiago Ramon Y. Cajal | E. Horne Craigie | Juan Cano • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Medical (Incl. Patients)Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852-1934) made prolific and lasting contributions to understanding...

• Author(s): Susan Hurley | Nick Chater • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Experimental PsychologyA state-of-the-art view of imitation from leading researchers in neuroscience and brain imaging, animal and developmenta...

• Author(s): Moran Cerf • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Consumer Behavior - GeneralA comprehensive introduction to using the tools and techniques of neuroscience to understand how consumers make decisions ab...

• Author(s): Sharon Packer • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism As the gap between science fiction and science fact has narrowed, films that were intended as pur...

• Author(s): Steven J. Schiff • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: NeuroscienceHow powerful new methods in nonlinear control engineering can be applied to neuroscience, from fundamental model formulation to advanced medi...

• Author(s): Paul Thagard • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Cognitive Psychology & CognitionCognitive science approaches the study of mind and intelligence from an interdisciplinary perspective, working at the int...

• Author(s): G. Gabrielle Starr • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: GeneralA theory of the neural bases of aesthetic experience across the arts, which draws on the tools of both cognitive neuroscience and traditional hu...

• Author(s): Zaira Cattaneo | Tomaso Vecchi • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: OphthalmologyAn investigation of the effects of blindness and other types of visual deficit on cognitive abilities. Can a blind person see?...

• Author(s): Giovanna Colombetti • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Mind & BodyA proposal that extends the enactive approach developed in cognitive science and philosophy of mind to issues in affective science.In T...

• Author(s): Stephen E. Palmer • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Books • BISAC: NeuroscienceThis book revolutionizes how vision can be taught to undergraduate and graduate students in cognitive science, psychology, and opto...

• Author(s): Valtteri Arstila | Dan Lloyd • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: MetaphysicsInterdisciplinary perspectives on the feature of conscious life that scaffolds every act of cognition: subjective time. Our awaren...

• Author(s): Robert A. Wilson • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Books • BISAC: Cognitive Psychology & CognitionSince the 1970s the cognitive sciences have offered multidisciplinary ways of understanding the mind and cog...

• Author(s): Kelly Lambert • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Neuroscience Discover What Rodents Know About the Good Life What can the common laboratory rat tell us about being human? Ac...

• Author(s): Paul Thagard • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Philosophy & Social AspectsA cognitive science perspective on scientific development, drawing on philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, and computational ...

• Author(s): Jonathan Cohen | Mohan Matthen • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: NeuroscienceLeading philosophers and scientists consider what conclusions about color can be drawn when the latest analytic tools a...

• Author(s): Mark A. Kramer • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - NeuroscienceA practical guide to neural data analysis techniques that presents sample datasets and hands-on methods for analyzing t...

• Author(s): Dedre Gentner | Keith J. Holyoak | Boicho N. Kokinov • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Cognitive Psychology & CognitionAnalogy has been the focus of extensive research in cognitive science over the pa...

• Author(s): Marc Wittmann • Publisher: Mit Press • Publisher Imprint: Mit Press • BISAC: TimeAn expert explores the riddle of subjective time, from why time speeds up as we grow older to the connection between time and consciousness.We have wide...

• Author(s): Daniel L. Araoz • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Hypnotism Psychotherapy is a scientifically proven form of treatment, and neuroscience has justified hypnosis as a convenient ...