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The space between our ears
In The Space Between our Ears Michael Morgan explains how our brain interprets what we see. Using a wealth of sources from over the centuries including philosophical writings, scientific thinking, experiments, passages from poe...
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The Three-Pound Enigma
The Three-Pound Enigma: The Human Brain and the Quest to Unlock Its Mysteries by Shannon Moffett At the end of the day, what makes you you? Bookslut
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Essentials of Clinical Hypnosis : An Evidence-Based Approach
As in the field of psychology generally, within the area of hypnosis there is often a gap between the world of the laboratory and the world of clinical practice. Many clinicians complain that most research in hypnosis fails to ...
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The brain and its self
The main message of this monograph is that the appearance of the mammalian brain with the ability to acquire drives ensured the development of social life, and eventually led to the evolution of the human society. This most sop...
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Brain Control of Wakefulness and Sleeping
Brain Control of Wakefulness and Sleeping explores the history of efforts to understand the nature of waking and sleeping states from a biological point of view. This research represents the synthesis of the work of two individ...
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Animal Bodies, Human Minds: Ape, Dolphin, and Parrot Language Skills
Several books chronicle attempts, most of them during the last 40 years, to teach animals to communicate with people in a human-designed language. These books have typically treated only one or two species, or even one or a few...
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The Evolution and Function of Cognition
“The book presents the author’s ambitious attempt to formulate a general theory of how all animals (from the most primitive to the most complex, hence humans included) deal with their environment.”
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The lobotomist
Today the word “lobotomy” evokes images of medical savagery: innocent lives wrecked by experimental procedures and misguided psychiatrists using the insane as guinea pigs. The man behind this controversial surgical ...