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“peter simmons”

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  • Nerve Cells and Animal Behaviour

    by Peter Simmons, David Young ...
    An extensively revised third edition of this introduction to neuroethology - the neuronal basis of animal behaviour - for zoology, biology and psychology undergraduate students. The book focuses on the roles of individual nerve cells in behaviour, from simple startle responses to complex behaviours such as route learning by rats and singing by crickets and birds. It begins by examining the ... Read more

    $56.59 USD

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    by J. E. R. Staddon ...
    Every day at about 4:30, Jazz, a Hungarian Vizsla dog, leaps up on the sofa and looks out for his owner who always comes home at 5:00. He doesn't need an internal clock because he has an acute sense of smell that allows him to measure how long his master has been absent. Explaining complex behavior in simple ways, this book is a fascinating exploration of the evolution, development and processes ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Quantum Theory and Free Will

    How Mental Intentions Translate into Bodily Actions

    by Henry P. Stapp ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This book explains, in simple but accurate terms, how orthodox quantum mechanics works. The author, a distinguished theoretical physicist, shows how this theory, realistically interpreted, assigns an important role to our conscious free choices. Stapp claims that mainstream biology and neuroscience, despite nearly a century of quantum physics, still stick essentially to failed classical precepts ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • The Myth of Executive Functioning

    Missing Elements in Conceptualization, Evaluation, and Assessment

    by Leonard F. Koziol ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Executive functioning: we measure it, assess it, document its development in youth, track its decline in age and use it as a basis for diagnoses, treatment planning and-of course-theories. Could it be possible that science has spent decades chasing a cognitive phantom?Noting the lack of consensus concerning definition, component skills, and location within the brain, The Myth of Executive ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Divided Brains

    The Biology and Behaviour of Brain Asymmetries

    by Lesley J. Rogers, Giorgio Vallortigara, Richard J. Andrew ...
    Asymmetry of the brain and behaviour (lateralization) has traditionally been considered unique to humans. However, research has shown that this phenomenon is widespread throughout the vertebrate kingdom and found even in some invertebrate species. A similar basic plan of organisation exists across vertebrates. Summarising the evidence and highlighting research from the last twenty years, the ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • New Techniques in Systems Neuroscience

    Edited by Adam D. Douglass ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This volume is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the recent explosion of experimental tools in neuroscience that now make it possible to manipulate, record, and understand neuronal activity within the intact brain, and which are helping us learn how the many neurons that comprise a network act together to control behavior. Leaders in the field discuss the latest developments in ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Psychology of Visual Art

    Eye, Brain and Art

    by George Mather ...
    What can art tell us about how the brain works? And what can the brain tell us about how we perceive and create art? Humans have created visual art throughout history and its significance has been an endless source of fascination and debate. Visual art is a product of the human brain, but is art so complex and sophisticated that brain function and evolution are not relevant to our understanding? ... Read more

    $50.09 USD

  • Handbook of Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders, Volume II

    Phenotypic and Endophenotypic Presentations

    Edited by Michael S. Ritsner ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    A few disorders have some of the same symptoms as schizophrenia including schizoaffective disorders, schizophreniform disorder, schizotypal and schizoid personality disorders, delusional disorder, and autism (schizophrenia spectrum disorders). Since the 2000 there has been significant progress in our understanding of the early presentations, assessment, suspected neuropathology, and treatment of ... Read more

    $260.09 USD

  • Neuroscience, Consciousness and Spirituality

    Edited by Harald Walach, Stefan Schmidt, Wayne B. Jonas ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    Neuroscience, Consciousness and Spirituality presents a variety of perspectives by leading thinkers on contemporary research into the brain, the mind and the spirit. This volumes aims at combining knowledge from neuroscience with approaches from the experiential perspective of the first person singular in order to arrive at an integrated understanding of consciousness. Individual chapters discuss ... Read more

    $215.09 USD

  • Handbook of Mammalian Vocalization

    An Integrative Neuroscience Approach

    Edited by Stefan M Brudzynski ...
    Series Book 19 - Handbook of Behavioral Neuroscience
    Handbook of Mammalian Vocalization is designed as a broad and comprehensive, but well-balanced book, written from the neuroscience point of view in the broad sense of this term. This well-illustrated Handbook pays particular attention to systematically organized details but also to the explanatory style of the text and internal cohesiveness of the content, so the successive chapters gradually ... Read more

    $188.99 USD

  • Fundamentals of NeuroIS

    Information Systems and the Brain

    by René Riedl, Pierre-Majorique Léger ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    This authored volume presents the fundamentals of NeuroIS, which is an emerging subfield within the Information Systems discipline that makes use of neuroscience and neurophysiological tools and knowledge to better understand the development, use, and impact of information and communication technologies. This book is an initial guide to this new research domain. The target audience primarily ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Brain, Mind and Consciousness in the History of Neuroscience

    Edited by C.U.M. Smith, Harry Whitaker ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This volume of essays examines the problem of mind, looking at how the problem has appeared to neuroscientists (in the widest sense) from classical antiquity through to contemporary times. Beginning with a look at ventricular neuropsychology in antiquity, this book goes on to look at Spinozan ideas on the links between mind and body, Thomas Willis and the foundation of Neurology, Hooke’s ... Read more

    $143.09 USD