Frith Making up the Mind

How the Brain Creates Our Mental World
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-118-69748-1
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 248 Seiten, E-Book

Written by one of the world's leading neuroscientists,Making Up the Mind is the first accessible account ofexperimental studies showing how the brain creates our mentalworld.
* * Uses evidence from brain imaging, psychological experiments andstudies of patients to explore the relationship between the mindand the brain
* Demonstrates that our knowledge of both the mental and physicalcomes to us through models created by our brain
* Shows how the brain makes communication of ideas from one mindto another possible

Autoren/Hrsg.

Frith, Chris

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Prologue: Real scientists don't study the mind.
Part I: Seeing through the brain's illusions:.
1. Clues from a damaged brain.
2. What a normal brain tells us about the world.
3. What the brain tells us about our bodies.
Part II: How the brain does it:.
4. Getting ahead by prediction.
5. Our perception of the world is a fantasy that coincides withreality.
6. How brains model minds.
Part III: Culture and the brain:.
7. Sharing minds - How the brain creates culture.
Epilogue: Me and my Brain.
References/Further Reading

Über Autor(innen)

Chris Frith is Professor in Neuropsychology at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at University College London. His publications include Schizophrenia: A Very Short Introduction (2003, with Eve C. Johnstone) and The Neuroscience of Social Interaction (2004, edited with Daniel Wolpert).