Physiological and neuro-psychology, biopsychology

How does the brain piece together the information required to achieve object recognition, figure-ground segmentation, object completion in cases of partial occlusion and related perceptual phenomena?

Interdisciplinary Handbook of Perceptual Control Theory Volume II: Living in the Loop brings together the latest research, theory, and applications from W.

Information-Processing Channels in the Tactile Sensory System addresses the fundamental question of whether sensory channels, similar to those known to operate in vision and audition, also operate in the sense of touch.

In this book, Mark Solms chronicles a fascinating effort to systematically apply the clinico-anatomical method to the study of dreams.

Young children can erupt like little volcanoes when they are feeling angry.

Drugs and the Neuroscience of Behavior presents an introduction to the rapidly advancing field of psychopharmacology by examining how drug actions in the brain affect psychological processes.

Tone of Voice and Mind is a synthesis of findings from neurophysiology (how neurons produce subjective feeling), neuropsychology (how the human cerebral hemispheres undertake complementary information-processing), intonation studies (how the emotions are encoded in the tone of voice), and music perception (how human beings hear and feel harmony).

The past two decades have seen unparalleled developments in our knowledge of the brain and mind.

The recent progress in cognitive neuroscience, and the importance of genetic factors and gene-environment interactions in shaping behavioral functions in early childhood, have both underscored the primacy of early experience and development on brain development and function.

Nichts fürchten wir so sehr wie unsere ureigenen Ängste.

The Nine Degrees of Autism presents a much-needed positive tool for understanding the developmental process of autism, and to facilitate the improved mental health and well-being of individuals on the spectrum.

How human emotions are ''constructed'' from individuals'' embodied experiences in different cultural settings.

Neurotechnology and Direct Brain Communication focuses on recent neuroscientific investigations of infant brains and of patients with disorders of consciousness (DOC), both of which are at the forefront of contemporary neuroscience.

The "e;THINKING: Bioengineering of Science and Art"e; is to discuss about philosophical aspects of thinking at the context of Science and Art.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

Neurophysiology of Silence: Consciousness and Self Awareness, Volume 284 in the Progress in Brain Research series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters written by an international board of authors.

Learn how to apply neurobiology to real-world practice, moving beyond theory to understand brain-based behavior in depth.

Recent advances in neuroimaging and genetics technologies have enhanced our understanding of neurodevelopmental disorders in adults.

This volume explores the psychology of attention and discusses the various cognitive processes that determine what we pay attention to.

Who cheats and why?

Biological Psychology is the study of psychological processes in terms of biological functions.

This groundbreaking volume provides a theoretical overview and clinical guidelines for the application of neuropsychotherapy.

An essential new guide for any person-centred trainee or practitioner, this book explores some of the key contemporary counselling and psychotherapy approaches that have developed from classical client-centred therapy.

The Neurobiology of Schizophrenia begins with an overview of the various facets and levels of schizophrenia pathophysiology, ranging systematically from its genetic basis over changes in neurochemistry and electrophysiology to a systemic neural circuits level.

Why have people from different cultures and eras formulated myths and stories with similar structures?

"Ein sehr pragmatisch geschriebenes Buch, das Wege und Auswege zeigt.

This textbook goes beyond introductory sensory perception by incorporating supplementary electronic materials to demonstrate the parallels between both hearing and seeing.

Stem Cells in Neurotoxicology, Volume Twelve in the Advances in Neurotoxicology series, presents interesting chapters written by an international board of authors.

Shows how the diversity of sexual desires, both normal and unusual, emerge from the interactions between underlying brain processes.

Advances in the Study of Behavior

In the late 1960s and early 1970s David Marr produced three astonishing papers in which he gave a detailed account of how the fine structure and known cell types of the cerebellum, hippocampus and neocortex perform the functions that they do.

Social Communication Development and Disorders examines the integrated development of social, linguistic, and cognitive functions.

As indicated by its title A History of Great Ideas in Abnormal Psychology, this book is not just concerned with the chronology of events or with biographical details of great psychiatrists and psychopathologists.

Brain Physiology and Psychology offers a curated collection of groundbreaking papers that have shaped our understanding of the brain and its relationship to psychological processes.

This was an exciting project to work on, and I attempted to obtain a broad sampling of current research on the neuropsychology of epilepsy.

Für viele Therapeuten und Berater gehört es zum Handwerkszeug, mithilfe von Metaphern und Geschichten verborgene Ressourcen zu wecken und dem Hörer oder Leser dabei zu helfen, zu werden, wer er werden will.

The rapid growth in the numbers of older people worldwide has led to an equally rapid growth in research on the changes across age in cognitive function, including the processes of moment to moment cognition known as working memory.

Advances in the Study of Behavior continues to serve scientists across a wide spectrum of disciplines.

This volume covers a broad range of current research topics addressing the function of visuospatial attention and working memory.

Want to understand the biological processes that underpin our behaviour?

Advances in the Study of Behavior, Volume 55 highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on Playing to the crowd: using Drosophila to dissect mechanisms underlying plastic male strategies in sperm competition games, Social breeding and its challenges: A case study on village weaverbirds, Inbreeding depression and social interactions, Sleeping beauties?

First Published in 1988.

Setting forth the state of the art, leading researchers present a survey on the fast-developing field of Connectionist Psycholinguistics: using connectionist or neural networks, which are inspired by brain architecture, to model empirical data on human language processing.

Available for the first time in English!

Since the appearance of the John O'Keefe and Lynn Nadel book in which they proposed that the hippocampus provides an abstract, internal representation of the animal's environment, considerable conceptual progress in the area of navigational information processing has been achieved.

Advances in the Study of Behavior, Volume 51, provides users with the latest insights in this ever-evolving field.

First published in 1995, The Visual Brain in Action remains a seminal publication in the cognitive sciences.

The proposed book investigates brain asymmetry from the perspective of functional neural systems theory, a foundational approach for the topic.

This textbook is a comprehensive and sequential guide designed specifically for undergraduate students entering internships in the human services field and for the faculty serving as their internship supervisors.