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 Fragments of Mind and Brain
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Edited By
Henri Cohen, Cognitive Neuroscience Center, Dept of Psychology, Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Canada.
Brigitte Stemmer, Canada Research Chair in Neuroscience and Neuropragmatics,
Universite de Montreal, Canada
Description
What were the circumstances that led to the development of our cognitive abilities from a primitive hominid to an essentially modern human?
The answer to this question is of profound importance to understanding our present nature. Since the steep path of our cognitive development
is the attribute that most distinguishes humans from other mammals, this is also a quest to determine human origins. This collection
of outstanding scientific problems and the revelation of the many ways they can be addressed indicates the scope of the field to be explored
and reveals some avenues along which research is advancing. Distinguished scientists and researchers who have advanced the discussion
of the mind and brain contribute state-of-the-art presentations of their field of expertise. Chapters offer speculative and provocative
views on topics such as body, culture, evolution, feelings, genetics, history, humor, knowledge, language, machines, neuroanatomy, pathology,
and perception. This book will appeal to researchers and students in cognitive neuroscience, experimental psychology, cognitive science,
and philosophy.
Audience
Cognitive neuroscientists, experimental psychologists, and cognitive scientists.
Contents
How Did Modern Human Cognition Evolve?
Taking Up Arms.
Celebrating 300 Million Years of the Mind.
Was Medieval Cell Doctrine More Modern
Than We Thought?
Can Evolution Produce Robots?
The Thought - Translation Device.
Babes in Arms: Studies in Laterality.
Why a Creative
Brain?: Evolutionary Set-ups for Off-line Planning of Coherent Stages.
Creativity: Method or Magic?
The Cross-Cultural Brain.
Where's
the Missing Body?: A Puzzle for Cognitive Science.
Whose Free Will is it Anyway?
Affective Neuroscience and the Ancestral Sources of
Human Feelings.
The Funny Meat Behind our Eyes.
Practicing Safe Stress: A Selective Overview of the Neuroscience Research.
Petrol Sniffing,
the Brain and Aboriginal Culture: Between Sorcery and Neuroscience.
Chatting with Noam Chomsky.
| Bibliographic details |
Hardbound, 288 pages, publication date: FEB-2007
ISBN-13: 978-0-12-373734-2
ISBN-10: 0-12-373734-6
Imprint: ACADEMIC PRESS
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