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“benjamin d young”

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  • Theoretical Perspectives on Smell

    Edited by Andreas Keller, Benjamin D. Young ...
    Theoretical Perspective on Smell is the first collection of scholarly articles to be devoted exclusively to philosophical research on olfaction. The essays, published here for the first time, bring together leading theorists working on smell in a format that allows for deep engagement with the emerging field, while also providing those new to the philosophy of smell with a resource to begin their ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Mind, Cognition, and Neuroscience

    A Philosophical Introduction

    by Benjamin D. Young, Carolyn Dicey Jennings ...
    This carefully designed, multi-authored textbook covers a broad range of theoretical issues in cognitive science, psychology, and neuroscience. With accessible language, a uniform structure, and many pedagogical features, Mind, Cognition, and Neuroscience: A Philosophical Introdution is the best high-level overview of this area for an interdisciplinary readership of students. Written specifically ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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  • The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain

    by Terrence W. Deacon ...
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  • Synesthesia

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    by JZ Murdock ...
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  • Evolutionary Psychology as Maladapted Psychology

    by Robert C. Richardson ...
    Series series Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psychology
    A philosopher subjects the claims of evolutionary psychology to the evidential and methodological requirements of evolutionary biology, concluding that evolutionary psychology's explanations amount to speculation disguised as results.Human beings, like other organisms, are the products of evolution. Like other organisms, we exhibit traits that are the product of natural selection. Our ... Read more

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  • The Evolution of Language

    by W. Tecumseh Fitch ...
    Series series Approaches to the Evolution of Language
    Language, more than anything else, is what makes us human. It appears that no communication system of equivalent power exists elsewhere in the animal kingdom. Any normal human child will learn a language based on rather sparse data in the surrounding world, while even the brightest chimpanzee, exposed to the same environment, will not. Why not? How, and why, did language evolve in our species and ... Read more

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  • Perception

    Theory, Development and Organisation

    by Paul Rookes, Jane Willson ...
    Series series Routledge Modular Psychology
    Paul Rookes and Jane Willson explain perception and perceptual processes in a way that almost anyone can understand. The study of perception, or how the brain processes information from the senses , has fascinated psychologists and philosophers for a long time. Perception takes the key research areas and presents the arguments and findings in a clear, concise form, enabling the reader to have a ... Read more

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  • Mental Mechanisms

    Philosophical Perspectives on Cognitive Neuroscience

    by William Bechtel ...
    A variety of scientific disciplines have set as their task explaining mental activities, recognizing that in some way these activities depend upon our brain. But, until recently, the opportunities to conduct experiments directly on our brains were limited. As a result, research efforts were split between disciplines such as cognitive psychology, li ... Read more

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  • Developmental Psychology

    How Nature and Nurture Interact

    by Keith Richardson ...
    This clear and authoritative text provides a trenchant critique of dichotomous thinking and goes on to describe and exemplify an alternative view of development, showing the power of ecological and dynamic systems perspectives. Thematic chapters identify the classic assumptions of the nature-nurture debate and present the reader with new ways of thinking about these issues. The book begins with ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Companion to Consciousness

    Edited by Tim Bayne, Axel Cleeremans, Patrick Wilken ...
    Consciousness is undoubtedly one of the last remaining scientific mysteries and hence one of the greatest contemporary scientific challenges. How does the brain's activity result in the rich phenomenology that characterizes our waking life? Are animals conscious? Why did consciousness evolve? How does science proceed to answer such questions? Can we define what consciousness is? Can we measure it? ... Read more

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  • Foundations in Evolutionary Cognitive Neuroscience

    Edited by Steven M. Platek, Todd K. Shackelford ...
    This book is an introduction to the emerging field of evolutionary cognitive neuroscience, a branch of neuroscience that combines the disciplines of evolutionary psychology and cognitive neuroscience. It outlines the application of cognitive neuroscientific methods (e.g., functional magnetic resonance imaging, transcranial magnetic stimulation, magneto- and electroencephalography, and the use of ... Read more

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