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CHAPTER 1 - How Did Modern Human Cognition Evolve?
I. Tattersall
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CHAPTER 2 - Taking Up Arms
M. Corballis
Pages 19-27 - Book chapterAbstract only
CHAPTER 3 - Celebrating 300 Million Years of the Mind: A Bird's-Eye View
P.J. Snyder
Pages 29-II - Book chapterAbstract only
CHAPTER 4 - Was Medieval Cell Doctrine More Modern Than We Thought?
H. Whitaker
Pages 45-51 - Book chapterAbstract only
CHAPTER 5 - Can Evolution Produce Robots?
M. Hild and B. Stemmer
Pages 53-67 - Book chapterAbstract only
CHAPTER 6 - The Thought-Translation Device
N. Birbaumer and F.A. Rodden
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CHAPTER 7 - Babes in Arms: Studies in Laterality
L.J. Harris
Pages 83-113 - Book chapterAbstract only
CHAPTER 8 - Why a Creative Brain? Evolutionary Setups for Off-Line Planning of Coherent Stages
W.H. Calvin
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CHAPTER 9 - Creativity: Method or Magic?
S. Hamad
Pages 127-137 - Book chapterAbstract only
CHAPTER 10 - The Cross-Cultural Brain
E. Zaidel and J. Kaplan
Pages 139-147 - Book chapterAbstract only
CHAPTER 11 - Where's the Missing Body? A Puzzle for Cognitive Science
R.W. Gibbs
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CHAPTER 12 - Whose Free Will is it Anyway? or, The Illusion of Determinism
S.J. Segalowitz
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CHAPTER 13 - Affective Neuroscience and the Ancestral Sources of Human Feelings
J. Panksepp
Pages 173-188 - Book chapterAbstract only
CHAPTER 14 - The Funny Meat Behind Our Eyes
F.A. Rodden
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CHAPTER 15 - Practicing Safe Stress: A Selective Overview of the Neuroscience Research
C.M. McCormick
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CHAPTER 16 - Petrol Sniffing, the Brain, and Aboriginal Culture: Between Sorcery and Neuroscience
S. Cairney and P. Maruff
Pages 225-V - Book chapterAbstract only
CHAPTER 17 - Chatting with Noam Chomsky
N. Chomsky
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Index
Pages 255-260
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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 that most distinguishes humans from other mammals, this is also a quest to determine human origins. This collection of outstanding scientific problems and the revelation of the many ways they can be addressed indicates the scope of the field to be explored and reveals some avenues along which research is advancing. Distinguished scientists and researchers who have advanced the discussion of the mind and brain contribute state-of-the-art presentations of their field of expertise. Chapters offer speculative and provocative views on topics such as body, culture, evolution, feelings, genetics, history, humor, knowledge, language, machines, neuroanatomy, pathology, and perception. This book will appeal to researchers and students in cognitive neuroscience, experimental psychology, cognitive science, and philosophy.
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 that most distinguishes humans from other mammals, this is also a quest to determine human origins. This collection of outstanding scientific problems and the revelation of the many ways they can be addressed indicates the scope of the field to be explored and reveals some avenues along which research is advancing. Distinguished scientists and researchers who have advanced the discussion of the mind and brain contribute state-of-the-art presentations of their field of expertise. Chapters offer speculative and provocative views on topics such as body, culture, evolution, feelings, genetics, history, humor, knowledge, language, machines, neuroanatomy, pathology, and perception. This book will appeal to researchers and students in cognitive neuroscience, experimental psychology, cognitive science, and philosophy.
Key Features
- Includes a contribution by Noam Chomsky, one of the most cited authors of our time
- Includes a contribution by Noam Chomsky, one of the most cited authors of our time
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ISBN
978-0-12-373734-2
Language
English
Published
2007
Copyright
Copyright © 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved
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Academic Press