author: michael s gazzaniga

David Poeppel, George R. Mangun, Michael S. Gazzaniga. Cole, S.W., Capitanio ... science. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 10, 213–226. Grippo, A. J. ... (6), S375–S384. Hawkley, L. C., Masi, C. M., Berry, J. D., & Cacioppo, J. T. ...

This third edition uses an interdisciplinary approach to understanding how the human mind works. Throughout the text, clinical case studies are presented to humanise the scientific content.

The new Second Edition has been completely redesigned and includes new pedagogy to make the book even more student friendly. Over 600 new citations, as well as revisions to every chapter, bring the text to the forefront of its field.

Three leading figures in the field of cognitive neuroscience provide an engaging, narrative driven overview of this path-breaking field.

... kirstie. j. whitaker. PLASTICITY. 5. abstract What precisely is changing over ... kirstie j. whitaker Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California ... Moseley, & Hedehus, 1999). Cortical thickness follows an inverted U-shaped ...

These essays on a range of topics in the cognitive neurosciences report on the progress in the field over the twenty years of its existence and reflect the many groundbreaking scientific contributions and enduring influence of Michael ...

This second edition reflects the many advances that have taken place in this field, particularly in imaging and recording techniques.

... free to search among several possible targets for a reward, and a task where ... brain areas, or for different cognitive processes; for example, attention ... neuron, we must know something about the neurons that drive it. Structure ...

Michael S. Gazzaniga shows how our mind and brain accomplish the amazing feat of constructing our past - a process clearly fraught with errors of perception, memory, and judgment.

The most authoritative cognitive neuroscience text is also the most accessible.

In The Consciousness Instinct, the neuroscience pioneer Michael S. Gazzaniga puts the latest research in conversation with the history of human thinking about the mind, giving a big-picture view of what science has revealed about ...

He explores what makes human brains special, the importance of language and art in defining the human condition, the nature of human consciousness, and even artificial intelligence.

"Getting a fix on important questions and how to think about them from an experimental point of view is what scientists talk about, sometimes endlessly. It is those conversations that thrill and motivate," observes Michael Gazzaniga.

In this book we are trying to illuminate the persistent and nag ging questions of how mind, life, and the essence of being relate to brain mechanisms.

The book will be a uniquely valuable resource for the researcher seeking to expand his or her repertoire of investigative techniques. Each chapter explores a different approach.

In Human, Gazzaniga explores a number of related issues, including what makes human brains unique, the importance of language and art in defining the human condition, the nature of human consciousness, and even artificial intelligence.

With a Foreword by Steven Pinker In Tales from Both Sides of the Brain, Michael S. Gazzaniga tells the story of his passionate, entrepreneurial life in science and his decades-long journey to understand how the separate spheres of our ...

Describes how research is showing how the mind and the body affect each other and how each individual can better manage their bodies and lives.

While selection theory has revolutionized biology, its implications for psychology have barely been tapped. Now Gazzaniga, a distinguished behavioral scientist, reveals the radical implications of this powerful concept. Photos.

This handbook consists of 21 chapters divided into four sections and opens with an introduction to neural mechanisms underlying the behavior of invertebrates, followed by a comparison of the visual behavior of humans and arthropods.

... learning theory approach. Dollard and Miller's (1950) publication of Personality and psychotherapy exposed the falsity of the assumption that Freudianism and behavior theory were of necessity antithetical. The personality theory of Dollard ...

Cognitive Neuroscience: A Reader provides the first definitive collection of readings in this burgeoning area of study. Cognitive Neuroscience: A Reader provides the first definitive collection of readings in this burgeoning area of study.

Reflecting the latest APA Guidelines and accompanied by an exciting, new, formative, adaptive online learning tool, Psychological Science, Fifth Edition, will train your students to be savvy, scientific thinkers.

Empirical data and theories concerning formation, retrieval, and integration of memory processes; considers how these processes might augment learning and training procedures. Acidic paper. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

This edition reflects the vibrancy of the field, with research in development and evolution that finds a dynamic growth pattern becoming specific and fixed, and research in plasticity that sees the neuronal systems always changing; exciting ...

Courageous and thought-provoking -- a work of enormous intelligence, insight, and importance -- this book explores the hitherto uncharted landscape where science and society intersect.

Written by world-renowned researchers, including Michael Gazzaniga, Cognitive Neuroscience remains the gold standard in its field, showcasing the latest discoveries and clinical applications.

With extensive video footage of his trailblazing cognitive experiments, Michael Gazzaniga—the “father of cognitive neuroscience”—illuminates the discoveries behind his groundbreaking work in this enhanced digital edition of Tales ...