- The Accidental Mind
- David J. Linden
- A guide to the strange and often illogical world of neural function, this book shows how the brain is not an optimized, general-purpose problem-solving machine, but rather a weird agglomeration of ad-hoc solutions that have been piled on through millions of years of evolutionary history.
- Hardcover 2007 / Paperback 2008
- Attentional Processing
- David LaBerge
- LaBerge provides a systematic view of the attention process as it occurs in everyday perception, thinking, and action. Drawing from a variety of research methods and findings from cognitive psychology, neurobiology, and computer science, he presents a masterful synthesis.
- Hardcover
- Beyond the Zonules of Zinn
- David Bainbridge
- In his latest book, Bainbridge combines an otherworldly journey through the central nervous system with an accessible and entertaining account of how the brain's anatomy has often misled anatomists about its function. Bainbridge uses the structure of the brain to set his book apart from the many volumes that focus on brain function.
- Hardcover 2008
- Body and Brain
- Dale Purves
- Hardcover 1988 / Paperback 1990
- Brain Arousal and Information Theory
- Donald Pfaff
- In Brain Arousal and Information Theory, Donald Pfaff presents a daring perspective on the long-standing puzzle of what arousal is. Pfaff argues that, beneath our mental functions and emotional dispositions, a primitive neuronal system governs arousal. Employing the simple but powerful framework of information theory, Pfaff revolutionizes our understanding of arousal systems in the brain.
- Hardcover 2005
- The Brain Machine
- Marc Jeannerod
- David Urion, Translator
- Hardcover 1985
- The Brain’s Sense of Movement
- Alain Berthoz
- Giselle Weiss, Translator
- In this erudite and witty book, neuroscientist Alain Berthoz describes how human beings on earth perceive and control bodily movement. In his view, the brain acts like a simulator that is constantly inventing models to project onto the changing world, models that are corrected by steady, minute feedback from the world. This interpretation allows Berthoz to focus on psychological phenomena largely ignored in standard texts: proprioception and kinaesthesis, the mechanisms that maintain balance and coordinate actions, and basic perceptual and memory processes involved in navigation.
- Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2002
- Cerebral Dominance
- Norman Geschwind, Editor
- Albert M. Galaburda, Editor
- Although cerebral dominance, the specialization of each side of the brain for different functions, was discovered in the 1860s, almost nothing was known for many years about its biological foundations, the study of which has undergone what can only be described as a revolution in the past decade and a half. Norman Geschwind and Albert Galaburda, two of the leaders of this new field, have assembled a distinguished group of investigators, each a pioneer in some aspect of the biology of dominance.
- Hardcover 1984 / Paperback 1988
- The Dalai Lama at MIT
- Edited by Anne Harrington
- Edited by Arthur Zajonc
- Their meeting captured headlines; the waiting list for tickets was nearly 2000 names long. If you were unable to attend, this book will take you there. Including both the papers given at the conference, and the animated discussion and debate that followed, The Dalai Lama at MIT reveals scientists and monks reaching across a cultural divide, to share insights, studies, and enduring questions.
- Hardcover 2006 / Paperback 2008
- Dyslexia and Development
- Albert M. Galaburda
- Hardcover
- Focus on Vision
- R. A. Weale
- Hardcover 1983
- The Fundamentals of Brain Development
- Joan Stiles
- In a remarkable synthesis of research from the last two decades, a leading developmental neuroscientist provides psychologists with a sophisticated introduction to the brain. In clear terms, with ample illustrations, Stiles explains the complexities of genetic variation and transcription, and the variable paths of neural development, from embryology through early childhood.
- Hardcover 2008
- Hemispheric Asymmetry
- Joseph B. Hellige
- Is "right-brain" thought essentially creative, and "left-brain" strictly logical? Joseph B. Hellige argues that this view is far too simplistic. Surveying extensive data in the field of cognitive science, he disentangles scientific facts from popular assumptions about the brain's two hemispheres.
- Paperback 2001 / Hardcover
- Human Language and Our Reptilian Brain
- Philip Lieberman
- Using data seldom considered by psycholinguists and neurolinguists, a prominent neuroscientist argues that human language--though more sophisticated than all other forms of animal communication--is not a qualitatively different ability from all forms of animal communication, it does not require a quantum evolutionary leap to be explained, and it is not unified in a single "language instinct." In a blow to human narcissism, Philip Lieberman makes the case that language is a by-product of our remote reptilian ancestors' abilities to dodge hazards, seize opportunities, and live to see another day.
- Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2002
- The Languages of the Brain
- Albert M. Galaburda, Editor
- Stephen M. Kosslyn, Editor
- Yves Christen, Editor
- A stellar lineup of international cognitive scientists, philosophers, and artists make the book's case that the brain is multilingual. Among topics discussed in the section on verbal languages are the learning of second languages, recovering language after brain damage, and sign language, and in the section on nonverbal languages, mental imagery, representations of motor activity, and the perception and representation of space.
- Hardcover 2002
- Memory Distortion
- Daniel L. Schacter, Editor
- Hypnosis, confabulation, source amnesia, flashbulb memories, repression--these and numerous additional topics are explored in this timely collection of essays by eminent scholars in a range of disciplines. This is the first book on memory distortion to unite contributions from cognitive psychology, psychopathology, psychiatry, neurobiology, sociology, history, and religious studies.
- Paperback 1997 / Hardcover
- Memory, Brain, and Belief
- Daniel L. Schacter, Editor
- Elaine Scarry, Editor
- The scientific research literature on memory is enormous. Yet until now no single book has focused on the complex interrelationships of memory and belief. This book brings together eminent scholars from neuroscience, cognitive psychology, literature, and medicine to discuss such provocative issues as "false memories," in which people can develop vivid recollections of events that never happened; retrospective biases, in which memories of past experiences are influenced by one's current beliefs; and implicit memory, or the way in which nonconscious influences of past experience shape current beliefs.
- Paperback 2001 / Hardcover 2002
- Molecular and Cellular Physiology of Neurons
- Gordon L. Fain
- This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date account of what we now know--and what we want to know and can reasonably expect to discover in the near future--about the functioning of the brain at the level of molecules and cells. It takes readers from the fundamentals to the most sophisticated concepts and latest discoveries --from membrane potentials to recent experiments on voltage-gated ion channels, from descriptions of receptors, G proteins, effector molecules, and secondary messengers to an account of our current understanding of long-term potentiation.
- Hardcover 1999
- Neurons and Networks
- John E. Dowling
- Completely revised and enlarged with six new chapters, the second edition of Neurons and Networks is an introduction not just to neurobiology, but to all of behavioral neuroscience. It is an ideal text for first- or second-year college students with minimal college science exposure.
- Hardcover 2001
- Origins of the Modern Mind
- Merlin Donald
- This bold and brilliant book asks the ultimate question of the life sciences: How did the human mind acquire its incomparable power? In seeking the answer, Merlin Donald traces the evolution of human culture and cognition from primitive apes to artificial intelligence, presenting an enterprising and original theory of how the human mind evolved from its presymbolic form.
- Hardcover 1991 / Paperback
- Pain and Its Transformations
- Sarah Coakley, Editor
- Kay Kaufman Shelemay, Editor
- Pain remains a deep mystery for sufferers, their physicians, and researchers. As neuroscientific research shows, even the immediate sensation of pain is shaped by psychological state and interpretation. At the same time, many individuals and cultures find meaning, particularly religious meaning, even in chronic and inexplicable pain. This interdisciplinary book includes not only essays but also discussions among a wide range of specialists.
- Hardcover 2008
- Perceptual Neuroscience
- Vernon B. Mountcastle
- This monumental work by one of the world's greatest living neuroscientists does nothing short of creating a new subdiscipline in the field: perceptual neuroscience. Vernon Mountcastle has gathered information from a vast number of sources reaching back through two centuries, from phylogenetic, comparative, and neuroanatomical studies of the neocortex to rhythmicity and synchronization in neocortical networks and inquiries into the binding problem.
- Hardcover 1998
- The Process of Neurologic Care in Medical Practice
- Thomas H. Glick, M.D
- Hardcover 1984
- The Sensory Hand
- Vernon B. Mountcastle
- Vernon Mountcastle has devoted his career to studying the neurophysiology of sensation in the hand. In The Sensory Hand he provides an astonishingly comprehensive account of the neural underpinnings of the rich and complex tactile experiences evoked by stimulation of the hand. His new book thus becomes a sequel to his earlier volume, Perceptual Neuroscience, in which he offered a detailed analysis of the role of the distributed systems of the neocortex in perception generally.
- Hardcover 2005