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  • The Confabulating Mind

    How the Brain Creates Reality

    by Armin Schnider ...
    Confabulations are recitations of events and experiences that never happened, ranging from incorrect responses to questions to a blatant confusion of reality. The Confabulating Mind provides the most up-to-date account of the causes, anatomical basis, and mechanisms of the phenomenon of false memories. In this significant update on the first edition, the author analyses new and diverse examples of ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

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  • 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

    $79.19 CAD

  • Oxford Handbook of Face Perception

    Edited by Andy Calder, Gillian Rhodes, Mark Johnson, Jim Haxby ...
    Series series Oxford Library of Psychology
    The human face is unique among social stimuli in conveying such a variety of different characteristics. A person's identity, sex, race, age, emotional state, focus of attention, facial speech patterns, and attractiveness are all detected and interpreted with relative ease from the face. Humans also display a surprising degree of consistency in the extent to which personality traits, such as ... Read more

    $139.99 CAD

  • 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

    $48.79 CAD

  • 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

    $31.29 CAD

  • Your Conscious Mind

    Unravelling the greatest mystery of the human brain

    by New Scientist ...
    Series series New Scientist Instant Expert
    What is this strange mental world that seems so essential to being human?The conscious mind brings together sensations, perceptions, thoughts and memories to generate the seamless movie of a person's life. It makes us aware of the world around us and our own self. How all this emerges from a kilogram of brain cells is one of the greatest unanswered questions.In Your Conscious Mind leading brain ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • 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

    $105.59 CAD

  • Oxford Handbook of Neuroethics

    Edited by Judy Illes, Barbara J. Sahakian ...
    Series series Oxford Library of Psychology
    The past two decades have seen unparalleled developments in our knowledge of the brain and mind. However, these advances have forced us to confront head-on some significant ethical issues regarding our application of this information in the real world- whether using brain images to establish guilt within a court of law, or developing drugs to enhance cognition. Historically, any consideration of ... Read more

    $110.39 CAD

  • Emotion and Decision-making Explained

    by Edmund T. Rolls ...
    What produces emotions? Why do we have emotions? How do we have emotions? Why do emotional states feel like something? What is the relation between emotion, and reward value, and subjective feelings of pleasure? How is the value of a good represented in the brain? Will neuroeconomics replace classical microeconomics? How does the brain implement decision-making? Are gene-defined rewards and ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Sensory Neuroscience: Four Laws of Psychophysics

    by Jozef J. Zwislocki ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Sensory Neuroscience: Four Laws of Psychophysics organizes part of psychophysics -- a science of quantitative relationships between human sensations and the stimuli that evoke them. Although psychophysics belongs to sensory neuroscience, and is coupled to neurophysiology, it has also branched out to various specialized disciplines, including the disciplines of vision and hearing, ophthalmology, ... Read more

    $179.39 CAD

  • Dreaming Souls

    Sleep, Dreams and the Evolution of the Conscious Mind

    by Owen Flanagan ...
    Series series Philosophy of Mind
    What, if anything, do dreams tell us about ourselves? What is the relationship between types of sleep and types of dreams? Does dreaming serve any purpose? Or are dreams simply meaningless mental noise--"unmusical fingers wandering over the piano keys"? With expertise in philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience, Owen Flanagan is uniquely qualified to answer these questions. In this groundbreaking ... Read more

    $37.59 CAD

  • The Visual (Un)Conscious and Its (Dis)Contents

    A microtemporal approach

    by Bruno G. Breitmeyer ...
    Visual control of our actions can be unconscious as well as conscious. For example, when a pedestrian steps onto a street and then suddenly steps back, to avoid being hit by an oncoming car, the pedestrian's visual system has been able to detect the car very rapidly. Since the registration of the approaching car in conscious vision could take a few hundreds of milliseconds - possibly too long to ... Read more

    $44.69 CAD