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Sculptor and Destroyer
Tales of Glutamate—the Brain's Most Important Neurotransmitter
ISBN: 9780262048187
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 1, 2023
Forthcoming from the MIT Press
The Hidden Life of the Basal Ganglia
The Hidden Life of the Basal Ganglia
At the Base of Brain and Mind
ISBN: 9780262543118
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 12, 2021
The anatomy and physiology of the basal ganglia and their relation to brain and behavior, disorders and therapies, and philosophy of mind and moral values.
The Future of Brain Repair
A Realist's Guide to Stem Cell Therapy
ISBN: 9780262043755
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 17, 2020
A scientist assesses the potential of stem cell therapies for treating such brain disorders as stroke, Alzheimer's disease, and Parkinson's disease.
The Social Neuroscience of Empathy
The Social Neuroscience of Empathy
ISBN: 9780262515993
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 21, 2011
Cross-disciplinary, cutting-edge work on human empathy from the perspectives of social, cognitive, developmental and clinical psychology and cognitive/affective neuroscience.
The Two Halves of the Brain
Information Processing in the Cerebral Hemispheres
ISBN: 9780262014137
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: June 4, 2010
State-of-the-art research on brain asymmetry, explained from molecular to clinical levels.
Status Epilepticus
Mechanisms and Management
ISBN: 9780262232456
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 7, 2006
A comprehensive review of recent advances in the most severe form of epilepsy, focusing on two areas in which progress has been most rapid: basic mechanisms and treatment.
What Is Thought?
ISBN: 9780262524575
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 20, 2006
In What Is Thought? Eric Baum proposes a computational explanation of thought. Just as Erwin Schrodinger in his classic 1944 work What Is Life? argued ten years before the discovery...
Action in Perception
ISBN: 9780262640633
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 20, 2006
"Perception is not something that happens to us, or in us," writes Alva Noë. "It is something we do." In Action in Perception, Noë argues that perception and perceptual consciousness depend...
Seeing and Visualizing
It's Not What You Think
ISBN: 9780262661973
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 20, 2006
In Seeing and Visualizing, Zenon Pylyshyn argues that seeing is different from thinking and that to see is not, as it may seem intuitively, to create an inner replica of the world. Pylyshyn...
Belief's Own Ethics
ISBN: 9780262511940
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 20, 2006
The fundamental question of the ethics of belief is "What ought one to believe?" According to the traditional view of evidentialism, the strength of one's beliefs should be proportionate to the evidence....
Sculptor and Destroyer
Tales of Glutamate—the Brain's Most Important Neurotransmitter
ISBN: 9780262048187
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 1, 2023
Forthcoming from the MIT Press
The Hidden Life of the Basal Ganglia
The Hidden Life of the Basal Ganglia
At the Base of Brain and Mind
ISBN: 9780262543118
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 12, 2021
The anatomy and physiology of the basal ganglia and their relation to brain and behavior, disorders and therapies, and philosophy of mind and moral values.
The Future of Brain Repair
A Realist's Guide to Stem Cell Therapy
ISBN: 9780262043755
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 17, 2020
A scientist assesses the potential of stem cell therapies for treating such brain disorders as stroke, Alzheimer's disease, and Parkinson's disease.
The Social Neuroscience of Empathy
The Social Neuroscience of Empathy
ISBN: 9780262515993
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 21, 2011
Cross-disciplinary, cutting-edge work on human empathy from the perspectives of social, cognitive, developmental and clinical psychology and cognitive/affective neuroscience.
The Two Halves of the Brain
Information Processing in the Cerebral Hemispheres
ISBN: 9780262014137
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: June 4, 2010
State-of-the-art research on brain asymmetry, explained from molecular to clinical levels.
Status Epilepticus
Mechanisms and Management
ISBN: 9780262232456
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 7, 2006
A comprehensive review of recent advances in the most severe form of epilepsy, focusing on two areas in which progress has been most rapid: basic mechanisms and treatment.
What Is Thought?
ISBN: 9780262524575
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 20, 2006
In What Is Thought? Eric Baum proposes a computational explanation of thought. Just as Erwin Schrodinger in his classic 1944 work What Is Life? argued ten years before the discovery...
Action in Perception
ISBN: 9780262640633
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 20, 2006
"Perception is not something that happens to us, or in us," writes Alva Noë. "It is something we do." In Action in Perception, Noë argues that perception and perceptual consciousness depend...
Seeing and Visualizing
It's Not What You Think
ISBN: 9780262661973
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 20, 2006
In Seeing and Visualizing, Zenon Pylyshyn argues that seeing is different from thinking and that to see is not, as it may seem intuitively, to create an inner replica of the world. Pylyshyn...
Belief's Own Ethics
ISBN: 9780262511940
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 20, 2006
The fundamental question of the ethics of belief is "What ought one to believe?" According to the traditional view of evidentialism, the strength of one's beliefs should be proportionate to the evidence....