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  • Psychology of Touch and Blindness

    by Morton A. Heller, Edouard Gentaz ...
    This book reviews the considerable body of research that has been done to evaluate the touch skills of blind people. With an emphasis on cognitive and neuroscientific approaches, it encompasses a wide-ranging discussion of the theoretical issues in the field of touch perception and blindness.The volume includes chapters on sensory aspects of touch, perception in blind individuals, multimodal ... Read more

    $129.99 CAD

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    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

    $13.99 CAD

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  • Consciousness and the Brain

    Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts

    by Stanislas Dehaene ...
    **WINNER OF THE 2014 BRAIN PRIZEFrom the acclaimed author of Reading in the Brain and How We Learn, a breathtaking look at the new science that can track consciousness deep in the brain**How does our brain generate a conscious thought? And why does so much of our knowledge remain unconscious? Thanks to clever psychological and brain-imaging experiments, scientists are closer to cracking this ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • What the Face Reveals

    Basic and Applied Studies of Spontaneous Expression Using the Facial Action Coding System (FACS)

    Edited by Paul Ekman, Erika L. Rosenberg ...
    Series series Series in Affective Science
    While we have known for centuries that facial expressions can reveal what people are thinking and feeling, it is only recently that the face has been studied scientifically for what it can tell us about internal states, social behavior, and psychopathology. Today's widely available, sophisticated measuring systems have allowed us to conduct a wealth of new research on facial behavior that has ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • A Universe Of Consciousness

    How Matter Becomes Imagination

    by Giulio Tononi, Gerald M. Edelman ...
    What goes on in our head when we have a thought? Why do the physical events that occur inside a fistful of gelatinous tissue give rise to the world of conscious experience? In The Universe of Consciousness , Gerald Edelman and Giulio Tononi present for the first time a full-scale theory of consciousness based on direct observation of the human brain in action. Their pioneering work, presented here ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • 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

    $23.99 CAD

  • Fundamentals of Cognitive Neuroscience

    A Beginner's Guide

    by Bernard Baars, Nicole M. Gage ...
    Fundamentals of Cognitive Neuroscience is a comprehensive and easy-to-follow guide to cognitive neuroscience. Winner of a 2013 Most Promising New Textbook Award from the Text and Academic Authors Association, this book was written by two leading experts in the field to be highly accessible to undergraduates with limited neuroscience training. It covers all aspects of the field—the neural framework ... Read more

    $53.59 CAD

  • Rhythm, Music, and the Brain

    Scientific Foundations and Clinical Applications

    by Michael Thaut ...
    Series series Studies on New Music Research
    With the advent of modern cognitive neuroscience and new tools of studying the human brain "live," music as a highly complex, temporally ordered and rule-based sensory language quickly became a fascinating topic of study. The question of "how" music moves us, stimulates our thoughts, feelings, and kinesthetic sense, and how it can reach the human experience in profound ways is now measured with ... Read more

    $133.99 CAD

  • Development of Perception in Infancy

    The Cradle of Knowledge Revisited

    by Martha E. Arterberry, Phillip J. Kellman ...
    The developing infant can accomplish all important perceptual tasks that an adult can, albeit with less skill or precision. Through infant perception research, infant responses to experiences enable researchers to reveal perceptual competence, test hypotheses about processes, and infer neural mechanisms, and researchers are able to address age-old questions about perception and the origins of ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • Cognition

    by Arnold Lewis Glass ...
    Drawing on a modern neurocognitive framework, this full-color textbook introduces the entire field of cognition through an engaging narrative. Emphasizing the common neural mechanisms that underlie all aspects of perception, learning, and reasoning, the text encourages students to recognize the interconnectivity between cognitive processes. Elements of social psychology and developmental ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Research Methods in Psycholinguistics and the Neurobiology of Language

    A Practical Guide

    Edited by Annette M. B. de Groot, Peter Hagoort ...
    Series series Guides to Research Methods in Language and Linguistics
    The first comprehensive guide to research methods and technologies in psycholinguistics and the neurobiology of languageBringing together contributions from a distinguished group of researchers and practitioners, editors Annette M. B. de Groot and Peter Hagoort explore the methods and technologies used by researchers of language acquisition, language processing, and communication, including: ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

  • The Case for Mental Imagery

    by Stephen M. Kosslyn, William L. Thompson, Giorgio Ganis ...
    Series series Oxford Psychology Series
    When we try to remember whether we left a window open or closed, do we actually see the window in our mind? If we do, does this mental image play a role in how we think? For almost a century, scientists have debated whether mental images play a functional role in cognition. In The Case for Mental Imagery, Stephen Kosslyn, William Thompson, and Giorgio Ganis present a complete and unified argument ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD