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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “prof philip gerrans”
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  • Anatomy of an Avatar

    The virtual self in pathologies of self awareness

    by Prof Philip Gerrans ...
    Series series International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry
    This book applies a powerful framework in computational neuroscience (predictive coding and active inference) to explain psychiatric disorders that are characterised by pathologies of self-awareness. It shows how the self is best conceived of as an avatar or model made by the brain for the fundamental purpose of optimising basic bodily function. That avatar integrates and coordinates ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

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  • Reading in the Brain

    The New Science of How We Read

    by Stanislas Dehaene ...
    A renowned cognitive neuroscientist?s fascinating and highly informative account of how the brain acquires readingHow can a few black marks on a white page evoke an entire universe of sounds and meanings? In this riveting investigation, Stanislas Dehaene provides an accessible account of the brain circuitry of reading and explores what he calls the ?reading paradox?: Our cortex is the product of ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Surfing Uncertainty

    Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind

    by Andy Clark ...
    How is it that thoroughly physical material beings such as ourselves can think, dream, feel, create and understand ideas, theories and concepts? How does mere matter give rise to all these non-material mental states, including consciousness itself? An answer to this central question of our existence is emerging at the busy intersection of neuroscience, psychology, artificial intelligence, and ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • The Developing Mind

    How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are

    by Daniel J. Siegel, MD ...
    This highly influential work--now in a revised and expanded third edition incorporating major advances in the field--gives clinicians, educators, and students a new understanding of what the mind is, how it grows, and how to promote healthy development and resilience. Daniel J. Siegel synthesizes cutting-edge research from multiple disciplines, revealing the ways in which neural processes are ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • The Myth of Mirror Neurons

    The Real Neuroscience of Communication and Cognition

    by Gregory Hickok ...
    An essential reconsideration of one of the most far-reaching theories in modern neuroscience and psychology.In 1992, a group of neuroscientists from Parma, Italy, reported a new class of brain cells discovered in the motor cortex of the macaque monkey. These cells, later dubbed mirror neurons, responded equally well during the monkey’s own motor actions, such as grabbing an object, and while the ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • A Dissociation Model of Borderline Personality Disorder

    by Russell Meares ...
    Series series Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology
    A neurobiologically informed approach to a very difficult-to-treat disorder.This book addresses one of the fundamental, understudied issues of borderline personality disorder (BPD): dissociation and a lack of sense of self. Exploring dissociation from developmental, neurobiological,and behavioral perspectives, Russell Meares presents an original theory of BPD, offering new insights into this ... Read more

    $30.79 USD

  • The Neuroscience of Emotion

    A New Synthesis

    by Ralph Adolphs, David J. Anderson ...
    A new framework for the neuroscientific study of emotions in humans and animalsThe Neuroscience of Emotion presents a new framework for the neuroscientific study of emotion across species. Written by Ralph Adolphs and David J. Anderson, two leading authorities on the study of emotion, this accessible and original book recasts the discipline and demonstrates that in order to understand emotion, we ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • Educational Neuroscience

    Edited by Denis Mareschal, Brian Butterworth, Andy Tolmie ...
    Educational Neuroscience presents a series of readings from educators, psychologists, and neuroscientists that explore the latest findings in developmental cognitive neurosciences and their potential applications to education.Represents a new research area with direct relevance to current educational practices and policy makingFeatures individual chapters written collaboratively by educationalist, ... Read more

    $42.00 USD

  • Affect Regulation and the Repair of the Self

    by Allan Schore, Ph.D. ...
    Series series Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology
    This volume (one of two) is the first presentation of Schore's comprehensive theory in book form, as it has developed since 1994.In 1994 Allan Schore published his groundbreaking book, Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self, in which he integrated a large number of experimental and clinical studies from both the psychological and biological disciplines in order to construct an overarching ... Read more

    $34.19 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

    $71.09 USD

  • On the Frontiers of Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience

    Essays in Honor of Eric R. Kandel

    by Dr. Joseph LeDoux, Ph.D ...
    Building crucial bridges between psychoanalysis and the neurosciences, this compelling volume brings together prominent authorities from multiple disciplines. The volume highlights the contributions of Eric R. Kandel, whose seminal articles helped launch the fledgling field of neuropsychoanalysis. Contributors address what contemporary neuroscientific research reveals about how psychoanalytic ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Understanding Other Minds

    Perspectives from developmental social neuroscience

    Edited by Simon Baron-Cohen, Michael Lombardo, Helen Tager-Flusberg ...
    This book comprises 26 exciting chapters by internationally renowned scholars, addressing the central psychological process separating humans from other animals: the ability to imagine the thoughts and feelings of others, and to reflect on the contents of our own mindsa theory of mind (ToM). The four sections of the book cover developmental, cultural, and neurobiological approaches to ToM across ... Read more

    $62.09 USD