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  • Models of Action

    Mechanisms for Adaptive Behavior

    Edited by Clive D.L. Wynne, John E.R. Staddon ...
    This volume presents an international group of researchers who model animal and human behavior--both simple and complex. The models presented focus on such subjects as the pattern of eating in meals and bouts, the energizing and shaping impact of reinforcers on behavior, transitive inferential reasoning, responding to a compound stimulus, avoidance and escape learning, recognition memory, category ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

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  • The Psychology of Fatigue

    Work, Effort and Control

    by Robert Hockey ...
    Fatigue can have a major impact on an individual's performance and well-being, yet is poorly understood, even within the scientific community. There is no developed theory of its origins or functions, and different types of fatigue (mental, physical, sleepiness) are routinely confused. The widespread interpretation of fatigue as a negative consequence of work may be true only for externally ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • The Neurobiology of the Prefrontal Cortex

    Anatomy, Evolution, and the Origin of Insight

    by Richard E. Passingham, Steven P. Wise ...
    Series series Oxford Psychology Series
    The prefrontal cortex makes up almost a quarter of the human brain, and it expanded dramatically during primate evolution. The Neurobiology of the Prefrontal Cortex presents a new theory about its fundamental function. In this important new book, the authors argue that primate-specific parts of the prefrontal cortex evolved to reduce errors in foraging choices, so that particular ancestors of ... Read more

    $48.59 USD

  • Working Memory, Thought, and Action

    by Alan Baddeley ...
    Series Book 45 - Oxford Psychology Series
    'Working Memory, Thought, and Action' is the magnum opus of one of the most influential cognitive psychologists of the past 50 years. This new volume on the model he created (with Graham Hitch) discusses the developments that have occurred within the model in the past twenty years, and places it within a broader context. Working memory is a temporary storage system that underpins our capacity for ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • The Handbook of Clinical Neuropsychology

    by John Marshall ...
    The past 30 years have seen the field of clinical neuropsychology grow to become an influential discipline within mainstream clinical psychology and an established component of most professional courses. It remains one of the fastest growing specialities within mainstream clinical psychology, neurology, and the psychiatric disciplines. Substantially updated to take account of these rapid ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Mirrors in the Brain

    How our minds share actions and emotions

    by Giacomo Rizzolatti, Corrado Sinigaglia ...
    Emotions and actions are powerfully contagious; when we see someone laugh, cry, show disgust, or experience pain, in some sense, we share that emotion. When we see someone in distress, we share that distress. When we see a great actor, musician or sportsperson perform at the peak of their abilities, it can feel like we are experiencing just something of what they are experiencing. Yet only ... Read more

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  • The Psychobiology of Consciousness

    Edited by Richard Davidson ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE BRAIN SELF-REGULATION PARADOX The relationship of consciousness to biology has intrigued mankind thoroughout recorded history. However, little progress has been made not only in understanding these issues but also in raising fundamental questions central to the problem. As Davidson and Davidson note in their introduction, William James suggested, almost a century ago in his ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • Fundamentals of Motor Control

    by Mark L. Latash ...
    Motor control is a relatively young field of research exploring how the nervous system produces purposeful, coordinated movements in its interaction with the body and the environment through conscious and unsconscious thought. Many books purporting to cover motor control have veered off course to examine biomechanics and physiology rather than actual control, leaving a gap in the literature. This ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • New Frontiers in Mirror Neurons Research

    Edited by Pier Francesco Ferrari, Giacomo Rizzolatti ...
    The discovery of mirror neurons caused a revolution in neuroscience and psychology. Nevertheless, because of their profound impact within life sciences, mirror neuron are still the subject of numerous debates concerning their origins and their functions. With more than 20 years of research in this area, it is timely to synthesise the expanding literature on this topic. 'New frontiers in Mirror ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Cognition, Brain, and Consciousness

    Introduction to Cognitive Neuroscience

    by Bernard J. Baars, Nicole M. Gage ...
    Cognition, Brain, and Consciousness, Second Edition, provides students and readers with an overview of the study of the human brain and its cognitive development.It discusses brain molecules and their primary function, which is to help carry brain signals to and from the different parts of the human body. These molecules are also essential for understanding language, learning, perception, thinking ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Criminological Theory

    A Genetic-Social Approach

    by T. Owen ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    In an age of rapid advances in behavioural genetics, this book applies a unique genetic-social framework to the study of crime and criminal behaviour. Drawing upon evidence from evolutionary psychology and behavioural genetics, it offers an up-to-date and balanced account of the mutuality between genes and environment. ... Read more

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  • Life History Evolution and Sociology

    The Biological Backstory of Coming Apart: The State of White America 1960-2010

    by Steven C. Hertler ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This book supplies the evolutionary and genetic framework that Charles Murray, towards the end of Coming Apart: The State of White America 1960-2010, predicts will one day explain revolutionary change in American society. Murray’s Coming Apart documents 50 years of changed college admissions, government incentives, mating and migration patterns that have wrought national divisions across indexes ... Read more

    $53.99 USD