Consciousness and cognition fragments of mind and brain

What were the circumstances that led to the development of our cognitive abilities from a primitive hominid to an essentially modern human? The answer to this question is of profound importance to understanding our present nature. Since the steep path of our cognitive development is the attribute th...

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Otros Autores: Cohen, Henri, 1945- (-), Stemmer, Brigitte
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Academic Press 2007.
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • How Did Modern Human Cognition Evolve?
  • Taking Up Arms.
  • Celebrating 300 Million Years of the Mind.
  • Was Medieval Cell Doctrine More Modern Than We Thought?
  • Can Evolution Produce Robots?
  • The Thought
  • Translation Device.
  • Babes in Arms: Studies in Laterality.
  • Why a Creative Brain?: Evolutionary Set-ups for Off-line Planning of Coherent Stages.
  • Creativity: Method or Magic?
  • The Cross-Cultural Brain.
  • Where's the Missing Body?: A Puzzle for Cognitive Science.
  • Whose Free Will is it Anyway?
  • Affective Neuroscience and the Ancestral Sources of Human Feelings.
  • The Funny Meat Behind our Eyes.
  • Practicing Safe Stress: A Selective Overview of the Neuroscience Research.
  • Petrol Sniffing, the Brain and Aboriginal Culture: Between Sorcery and Neuroscience.
  • Chatting with Noam Chomsky.
  • How did modern human cognition evolve? / Ian Tattersall
  • Taking up arms / Michael Corballis
  • Celebrating 300 million years of the mind : a bird's eye view / Pater J. Snyder
  • Was medieval cell doctrine more modern than we thought? / Harry Whitaker
  • Can evolution produce robots? / Manfred Hild, Brigitte Stemmer
  • The thought-translation device / Niels Birbaumer, Frank Appletree Rodden
  • Babes in arms : studies in laterality / Lauren Julius Harris
  • Why a creative brain? Evolutionary setups for off-line planning of coherent stages / William H. Calvin
  • Creativity : method or magic? / Stevan Harnad
  • The cross-cultural brain / Eran Zaidel, Jonas Kaplan
  • Where's the missing body? A puzzle for cognitive science /Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr.
  • Whose free will is it anyway? or, The illusion of determinism / Sidney J. Segalowitz
  • Affective neuroscience and the ancestral sources of human feelings / Jaak Panksepp
  • The funny meat behind our eyes / Frank Appletree Rodden
  • Practicing safe stress : a selective overview of the neuroscience research / Cheryl M. McCormick
  • Petrol sniffing, the brain, and aboriginal culture : between sorcery and neuroscience / Sherre Cairney, Paul Maruff
  • Chatting with Noam Chomsky / Noam Chomsky.