- 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
- 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
- Cocaine Addiction
- Jerome J. Platt
- Drawing on the latest work in medicine, psychiatry, neuroscience, pharmacology, epidemiology, social work, and sociology, this volume is a highly accessible reference on the history and use of cocaine, its physical and psychological effects, the etiology and epidemiology of this addiction, and the pharmaceutical agents and psychosocial interventions used to treat it.
- Hardcover 1997 / Paperback 2000
- Constructing a Language
- Michael Tomasello
- In this groundbreaking book, Tomasello presents a comprehensive usage-based theory of language acquisition. Drawing together a vast body of empirical research in cognitive science, linguistics, and developmental psychology, Tomasello demonstrates that we don't need a self-contained "language instinct" to explain how children learn language. Their linguistic ability is interwoven with other cognitive abilities.
- Hardcover 2003 / Paperback 2005
- 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
- Lessons from an Optical Illusion
- Edward M. Hundert
- This book is a bold, modern recasting of the age-old nature-nurture debate, informed by revolutionary insights from brain science, artificial intelligence, psychiatry, linguistics, evolutionary biology, child development, ethics, and even cosmology.
- Hardcover 1995 / Paperback 1997
- 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
- Mind Time
- Benjamin Libet
- Foreword by Stephen M. Kosslyn
- Our subjective inner life is what really matters to us as human beings--and yet we know relatively little about how it arises. Over a long and distinguished career Libet has conducted experiments that have helped us see, in clear and concrete ways, how the brain produces conscious awareness. For the first time, Libet gives his own account of these experiments and their importance to our understanding of consciousness.
- Hardcover 2004 / Paperback 2005
- Neural Plasticity
- Peter R. Huttenlocher
- Hardcover 2002
- 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 Physiology of Truth
- Jean-Pierre Changeux
- Translated by M. B. DeBevoise
- In this wide-ranging book, one of the boldest thinkers in modern neuroscience confronts an ancient philosophical problem: can we know the world as it really is? Drawing on provocative new findings about the psychophysiology of perception and judgment in both human and nonhuman primates, and also on the cultural history of science, Jean-Pierre Changeux makes a powerful case for the reality of scientific progress and argues that it forms the basis for a coherent and universal theory of human rights.
- Hardcover 2004
- Psychophysiology
- Kenneth Hugdahl
- This important text presents a comprehensive introduction to the history, methods, and applications of psychophysiology and explores other areas concerned with the "mind-body interface," such as psychosomatic medicine, behavioral medicine, clinical psychology, psychiatry, neuropsychology, and cognitive neuroscience.
- Paperback 2001 / Hardcover