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  • The Self and Its Brain

    An Argument for Interactionism

    by John C. Eccles, Karl Popper ...
    The relation between body and mind is one of the oldest riddles that has puzzled mankind. That material and mental events may interact is accepted even by the law: our mental capacity to concentrate on the task can be seriously reduced by drugs. Physical and chemical processes may act upon the mind; and when we are writing a difficult letter, our mind acts upon our body and, through a chain of ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • The Cerebellum as a Neuronal Machine

    by John C. Eccles ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This book has had a three-fold origin, corresponding to the discoveries made by the three authors and their collaborators during the last few years - mostly since 1962. A most fruitful symposium on the cerebellum was held in Tokyo at the time of the International Physiological Congress in September 1965, and there was then formulated the project of writing this book so as to organize all this new ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • Neurobiology of Cognitive Learning

    by John C. Eccles ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    In the brain information is coded into sequences of impulses which are unit responses travelling from neurones or nerve cells along nerve fibres. The neural code is equivalent to a Morse code of dots only in a great variety of temporal patterns and with thousands of connections in parallel. Fig. lA is a diagram of Figure 1: Drawing of Four Neurones of the Cerebral Cortex. This shows the excitatory ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Self and Its Brain

    by Karl R. Popper, John C. Eccles ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    The problem of the relation between our bodies and our minds, and espe cially of the link between brain structures and processes on the one hand and mental dispositions and events on the other is an exceedingly difficult one. Without pretending to be able to foresee future developments, both authors of this book think it improbable that the problem will ever be solved, in the sense that we shall ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Brain and Conscious Experience

    Study Week September 28 to October 4, 1964, of the Pontificia Academia Scientiarum

    Edited by John C. Eccles ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    The planning of this Study Week at the Pontifical Academy of Science from September 28 to October 4, 1964, began just two years before when the President, Professor Lemaitre, asked me if 1 would be responsible for a Study Week relating Psychology to what we may call the Neurosciences. 1 accepted this responsibility on the understanding that 1 could have as sistance from two colleagues in the ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Evolution of the Brain: Creation of the Self

    by John C. Eccles ...
    Sir John Eccles, a distinguished scientist and Nobel Prize winner who has devoted his scientific life to the study of the mammalian brain, tells the story of how we came to be, not only as animals at the end of the hominid evolutionary line, but also as human persons possessed of reflective consciousness. ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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    Big Bangs, Behaviors, and Beliefs

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    Is the emotionally disturbed person a victim of forces beyond his awareness, over which he has no control? This is the belief on which neuropsychiatry, psychoanalysis, and behavior therapy are all based. But what if this premise is wrong? What if a person’s psychological difficulties stem from his own erroneous assumptions and faulty concepts of himself and the world? Such a person can be helped ... Read more

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  • Feeling & Knowing

    Making Minds Conscious

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    **From one of the world’s leading neuroscientists: a succinct, illuminating, wholly engaging investigation of how biology, neuroscience, psychology, and artificial intelligence have given us the tools to unlock the mysteries of human consciousness“One thrilling insight after another ... Damasio has succeeded brilliantly in narrowing the gap between body and mind.” —The New York Times Book Review* ... Read more

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  • Think Tank

    Forty Neuroscientists Explore the Biological Roots of Human Experience

    by David J. Linden ...
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    A Very Short Introduction

    by Michael O'Shea ...
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    How does the brain work? How different is a human brain from other creatures' brains? Is the human brain still evolving? In this fascinating book, Michael O'Shea provides a non-technical introduction to the main issues and findings in current brain research, and gives a sense of how neuroscience addresses questions about the relationship between the brain and the mind. Chapters tackle subjects ... Read more

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