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Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Cognition & cognitive psychology > Perception

Cognitive Psychology in a Changing World (Paperback): Linden J. Ball, Laurie T. Butler, Susan M Sherman, Helen St Clair-Thompson Cognitive Psychology in a Changing World (Paperback)
Linden J. Ball, Laurie T. Butler, Susan M Sherman, Helen St Clair-Thompson
R1,433 Discovery Miles 14 330 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This unique textbook explores core cognitive psychology topics from an innovative new perspective, focusing on key real-world issues to show how we understand and experience the world. The book examines compelling topics such as creativity, problem-solving, reasoning, rationality and language, all within the context of modern 21st century life. Each chapter demonstrates how this vibrant and constantly evolving discipline is at the heart of some of the biggest issues facing us all today. The last chapter discusses the future of cognitive psychology, which includes guidance on conducting rigorous, replicable research and how to use skills from cognitive psychology to be an effective student. Packed with pedagogical features, each chapter includes boxed examples of cognitive psychology in the real world and engaging ‘try it yourself’ features. Each chapter also includes objectives, a range of illustrative figures, chapter summaries, key readings and a glossary for ease of use. The book is fully supported by original online resources for students and instructors. Offering a new model for the study of cognitive psychology that brings the subject alive, the book is essential reading for all students studying psychology and related disciplines.

Michotte's Experimental Phenomenology of Perception (Paperback): Georges Thines, Alan Costall, George Butterworth Michotte's Experimental Phenomenology of Perception (Paperback)
Georges Thines, Alan Costall, George Butterworth
R1,419 Discovery Miles 14 190 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This volume of collected papers, with the accompanying essays by the editors, is the definitive source book for the work of this important experimental psychologist. Originally published in 1991, it offered previously inaccessible essays by Albert Michotte on phenomenal causality, phenomenal permanence, phenomenal reality, and perception and cognition. Within these four sections are the most significant and representative of the Belgian psychologist's research in the area of experimental phenomenology. Extremely insightful introductions by the editors are included that place the essays in context. Michotte's ideas have played an important role in much research on the development of perception, and his work on social perception continues to be influential in social psychology. The book also includes some lesser-known aspects of his work that are equally important; for example, a remarkable set of articles on pictorial analysis.

Social Psychology of Visual Perception (Paperback): Emily Balcetis, G. Daniel Lassiter Social Psychology of Visual Perception (Paperback)
Emily Balcetis, G. Daniel Lassiter
R1,415 Discovery Miles 14 150 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This volume takes a contemporary and novel look at how people see the world around them. We generally believe we see our surroundings and everything in them with complete accuracy. However, as the contributions to this volume argue, this assumption is wrong: people's view of their world is cloudy at best. Social Psychology of Visual Perception is a thorough examination of the nature and determinants of visual perception, which integrates work on social psychology and vision. It is the first broad-based volume to integrate specific sub-areas into the study of vision, including goals and wishes, sex and gender, emotions, culture, race, and age. The volume tackles a range of engaging issues, such as what is happening in the brain when people look at attractive faces, or if the way our eyes move around influences how happy we are and could help us reduce stress. It reveals that sexual desire, our own sexual orientation, and our race affect what types of people capture our attention. It explores whether our brains and eyes work differently when we are scared or disgusted, or when we grow up in Asia rather than North America. The multiple perspectives in the book will appeal to researchers and students in range of disciplines, including social psychology, cognition, evolutionary psychology, and neuroscience.

Behavior and Culture in One Dimension - Sequences, Affordances, and the Evolution of Complexity (Hardcover): Dennis Waters Behavior and Culture in One Dimension - Sequences, Affordances, and the Evolution of Complexity (Hardcover)
Dennis Waters
R4,070 Discovery Miles 40 700 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

* Draws on work across multiple disciplines, from astrobiology and physics to linguistics and the social sciences, making it appealing to graduates from a wide variety of fields. * The first accessible introduction into the important work of philosopher Howard Pattee. * Aims to equip readers with new approaches to simple and complex systems theory to take into any respective discipline.

Places, Sociality, and Ecological Psychology - Essays in Honor of Harry Heft (Paperback): Miguel Segundo-Ortin, Manuel... Places, Sociality, and Ecological Psychology - Essays in Honor of Harry Heft (Paperback)
Miguel Segundo-Ortin, Manuel Heras-Escribano, Vicente Raja
R1,354 Discovery Miles 13 540 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book presents a collection of essays honoring Professor Harry Heft, a leading figure in the field of ecological psychology, engaging critically with his work, thought and influence. Containing 12 chapters written by leading experts from philosophy and psychology, this text critically examines, questions, and expands on crucial ideas from Heft concerning the nature of cognition, its relationship to the body and the environment (including the social and cultural environment), and the main philosophical assumptions underlying the scientific study of psychological functions. It elaborates on the notion of affordance, and its connection to social, cultural and developmental psychology, as well as on the application of Roger Barker's eco-behavioral program for current psychology and cognitive science. The book includes an extensive interview with Heft, where he reflects about the history, challenges and future of ecological psychology. Finally, it presents a chapter written by Heft, that offers a systematic response to the critical feedback. Given the increasing popularity of ecological psychology and the highly influential work of Harry Heft in related areas such as developmental, social and cultural psychology, and philosophy, this book will appeal to all those interested in the cognitive sciences from a scientific and philosophical perspective. It is also a must read for students of psychology, philosophy, and cognitive science departments.

The Brain-Friendly Museum - Using Psychology and Neuroscience to Improve the Visitor Experience (Paperback): Annalisa Banzi The Brain-Friendly Museum - Using Psychology and Neuroscience to Improve the Visitor Experience (Paperback)
Annalisa Banzi; Foreword by John H. Falk
R1,122 Discovery Miles 11 220 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The Brain-Friendly Museum proposes an innovative approach to experiencing and enjoying the museum environment in new ways, based on the systematic application of cognitive psychology and neuroscience. Providing practical guidance on navigating and thinking about museums in different ways, the book is designed to help develop more fulfilling visitor experiences. It explores our cognitive processes and emotions, and how they can be used to engage with and enjoy the museum environment, regardless of the visitor's background, language, or culture. The book considers core cognitive processes, including memory, attention, and perception, and how they can successfully be applied to the museum environment, for example, in creating more effective displays. Using evidence-based examples throughout, the book advocates for a wellbeing approach improving visitor experience, and one that is grounded in research from psychology and neuroscience. This book is a must-read for all museum practitioners and psychologists interested in the relationship between cultural heritage, psychology, and neuroscience. It will also be of great interest to art therapists, neuroscientists, university students, museum stakeholders, and museum lovers.

Sensation and Perception (Hardcover, 5th New edition): Hugh Foley, Margaret Matlin Sensation and Perception (Hardcover, 5th New edition)
Hugh Foley, Margaret Matlin
R4,991 Discovery Miles 49 910 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

KEYE BENEFIT: "Sensation and Perception, Fifth Edition" maintains the standard of clarity and coverage set in earlier editions, which make the technical scientific information on sensation and perception accessible to a wide range of students. The Visual System; Basic Visual Functions; Visual Pattern Perception; Distance and Size Perception; Color; Motion; The Auditory System; Basic Auditory Functions; Auditory Pattern Perception; The Skin Senses; The Chemical Senses: Taste and Smell; Perceptual Development. K

Basic Processes in Reading - Perception and Comprehension (Paperback): David LaBerge, S. Jay Samuels Basic Processes in Reading - Perception and Comprehension (Paperback)
David LaBerge, S. Jay Samuels
R1,201 Discovery Miles 12 010 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Originally published in 1977, this volume contains the most recent theoretical views and experimental findings by prominent psychologists at the time, working in areas they considered to be most basic to the reading processes. The material will still be of value to people interested in applied and basic aspects of reading, as well as those concerned with language processing and information processing in general. The volume divides conveniently into two areas, perception and comprehension. The initial chapters deal with the perceptual processes involved in reading. The second half of the volume delves into the area of comprehension. The interested reader will find a wide variety of topics covered in the volume that reflect the amazingly wide range of cognitive functions that are part of the reading process.

Kinaesthesia in the Psychology, Philosophy and Culture of Human Experience (Hardcover): Roger Smith Kinaesthesia in the Psychology, Philosophy and Culture of Human Experience (Hardcover)
Roger Smith
R1,517 Discovery Miles 15 170 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

* Interdisciplinary book that weaves together ideas from psychology, philosophy, neuroscience, and dance. * Considers how movement is central to our sense of reality, our sense of self, and our relationships with others and the surrounding world. * Accessibly written book that foregrounds the author's voice and experiences

Attention and Performance VI - Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on Attention and Performance, Stockholm,... Attention and Performance VI - Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on Attention and Performance, Stockholm, Sweden, July 28-August 1, 1975 (Hardcover)
Stanislav Dornic
R5,938 Discovery Miles 59 380 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Originally published in 1977, this sixth volume of an international series presented new and original material in the broad area of human performance. Included are the most recent findings, modern methodologies, and latest models and theories that indicate the trends and focus on recent points of debate. Among the topics covered are reaction processes, perceptual encoding, selective attention, visual search, processing a recognition of words as well as the reading process, and memory. This volume will be of paramount interest to experimental psychologists, from graduate students to post-graduate research workers.

Attention and Performance VII - Proceedings of the Seventh International Symposium on Attention and Performance, Senanque,... Attention and Performance VII - Proceedings of the Seventh International Symposium on Attention and Performance, Senanque, France, August 1-6, 1976 (Hardcover)
Jean Requin
R5,932 Discovery Miles 59 320 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Originally published in 1978, this seventh volume of an international series continues the objective to increase and disseminate scientific knowledge in the area of human attention, performance and information processing, and to foster international communication in this area. This volume covers the following topics: time in perception; word perception and reading; speech perception and coding; hemisphere differences; response and physiological processes; theories and models. Today it can be read and enjoyed in its historical context.

Changing Brains - Essays on Neuroplasticity in Honor of Helen J. Neville (Paperback): Aaron J. Newman, Giordana Grossi Changing Brains - Essays on Neuroplasticity in Honor of Helen J. Neville (Paperback)
Aaron J. Newman, Giordana Grossi
R1,244 Discovery Miles 12 440 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Helen Neville was a pioneer in the field of Neuroplasticity, focusing her research on deafness and contributing to an acceptance of the role that experience plays in shaping the sensory system This book will honour her work, following her untimely death in 2018 Featuring contributions from former students, collaborators, and colleagues, the book showcases Professor Neville's legacy to the field

The Pleasure of Pictures - Pictorial Experience and Aesthetic Appreciation (Hardcover): Jerome Pelletier, Alberto Voltolini The Pleasure of Pictures - Pictorial Experience and Aesthetic Appreciation (Hardcover)
Jerome Pelletier, Alberto Voltolini
R3,931 Discovery Miles 39 310 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The general aim of this volume is to investigate the nature of the relation between pictorial experience and aesthetic appreciation. In particular, it is concerned with the character and intimacy of this relationship: is there a mere causal connection between pictorial experience and aesthetic appreciation, or are the two relata constitutively associated with one another? The essays in the book's first section investigate important conceptual issues related to the pictorial experience of paintings. In Section II, the essays discuss the notion of styles, techniques, agency, and facture, and also take into account the experience of photographic and cinematic pictures. The Pleasure of Pictures goes substantially beyond current debates in the philosophy of depiction to launch a new area of reflection in philosophical aesthetics.

Psychology, Art and Creativity (Paperback): Shannon Whitten Psychology, Art and Creativity (Paperback)
Shannon Whitten
R1,361 Discovery Miles 13 610 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

1. Relates the fundamental principles of the interdependent disciplines of Psychology, Art, and Creativity together in one resource in a clear and accessible way. 2. Will be accompanied by extensive online content developed by the author for her own MOOC, including quizzes, reflection exercises, videos, resources, further readings and other valuable tools that can help them connect deeply with the content. 3. Designed for use on courses focusing on the Psychology of Art, Creativity, or Art Therapy.

The Case Against Reality - How Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes (Paperback): Donald D. Hoffman The Case Against Reality - How Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes (Paperback)
Donald D. Hoffman 1
R333 R271 Discovery Miles 2 710 Save R62 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

SHORTLISTED FOR THE PHYSICS WORLD BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019 'One of the deepest and most original thinkers of his generation of cognitive scientists. His startling argument has implications for philosophy, science, and how we understand the world around us' Steven Pinker 'Is reality virtual? It's a question made even more interesting by this book' Barbara Kiser, Nature Do we see the world as it truly is? In The Case Against Reality, pioneering cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman says no? we see what we need in order to survive. Our visual perceptions are not a window onto reality, Hoffman shows us, but instead are interfaces constructed by natural selection. The objects we see around us are not unlike the file icons on our computer desktops: while shaped like a small folder on our screens, the files themselves are made of a series of ones and zeros - too complex for most of us to understand. In a similar way, Hoffman argues, evolution has shaped our perceptions into simplistic illusions to help us navigate the world around us. Yet now these illusions can be manipulated by advertising and design. Drawing on thirty years of Hoffman's own influential research, as well as evolutionary biology, game theory, neuroscience, and philosophy, The Case Against Reality makes the mind-bending yet utterly convincing case that the world is nothing like what we see through our eyes.

A Taxonomy of Visual Processes (Hardcover): William R. Uttal A Taxonomy of Visual Processes (Hardcover)
William R. Uttal
R6,978 Discovery Miles 69 780 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Originally published in 1981, this third volume deals with the empirical data base and the theories concerning visual perception - the set of mental responses to photic stimulation of the eyes. As the book develops, the plan was to present a general taxonomy of visual processes and phenomena. It was hoped that such a general perspective would help to bring some order to the extensive, but largely unorganized, research literature dealing with our immediate perceptual responses to visual stimuli at the time. The specific goal of this work was to provide a classification system that integrates and systematizes the data base of perceptual psychology into a comprehensive intellectual scheme by means of an eclectic, multi-level metatheory invoking several different kinds of explanation.

Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain (Paperback): Lisa Feldman Barrett Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain (Paperback)
Lisa Feldman Barrett
R280 R219 Discovery Miles 2 190 Save R61 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

'Highly accessible, content-rich and eminently readable . . . Fascinating and informative . . . popular science at its best.' - The Observer 'Subtly radical . . . It presents a revelatory model of consciousness that will be completely new to most readers' - The Guardian 'Best Reads For Summer' Have you ever wondered why you have a brain? Let renowned neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett, bestselling author of How Emotions Are Made, demystify that big grey blob between your ears . . . In seven short chapters (plus a brief history of how brains evolved), this slim, entertaining, and accessible book reveals mind-expanding lessons from the front lines of neuroscience research. You'll learn where brains came from, how they're structured (and why it matters), and how yours works in tandem with other brains to create everything you experience. Along the way, you'll also learn to dismiss popular myths such as the idea of a 'lizard brain' and the alleged battle between thoughts and emotions, or even between nature and nurture, to determine your behaviour. Sure to intrigue casual readers and scientific veterans alike, Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain is full of surprises, humour, and important implications for human nature - a gift of a book about our most complex and crucial organ.

FINITUDE: The Psychology of Self and Time - The Psychology of Self and Time (Paperback): Philippe Rochat FINITUDE: The Psychology of Self and Time - The Psychology of Self and Time (Paperback)
Philippe Rochat
R1,340 Discovery Miles 13 400 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

-The topic of time psychology, although fundamental for an understanding of all other mental faculties, is still under-represented. This book offers an overarching understanding of concepts beyond methodological detail, uniquely offering a developmental psychology perspective. -From Philippe Rochat, outstanding expert in developmental aspects of the self, it considers key topics including our developing awareness of spatial and temporal vanishing, developmental origins of human subjectivity and sense of separation and guilt, and how we are all constrained to knowingly exist in finite time. -For all advanced students and scholars of the psychology of time, human development and self-consciousness from psychological, philosophical and social science backgrounds.

Foucault & the Politics of Hearing (Hardcover): Lauri Siisiainen Foucault & the Politics of Hearing (Hardcover)
Lauri Siisiainen
R4,202 Discovery Miles 42 020 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The issue of the senses and sensual perception in Michel Foucault s thought has been a source of prolific discussion already for quite some time. Often, Foucault has been accused of overemphasizing the centrality of sight, and has been portrayed as yet another thinker representative of Western ocularcentricism. This innovative new work seeks to challenge this portrait by presenting an alternative view of Foucault as a thinker for whom the sound, voice, hearing, and listening, the auditory-sonorous, actually did matter.

Illustrating how the auditory-sonorous relates most integrally to the most pertinent issues of Foucault - the intertwinement and confrontations of power, knowledge, and resistance - the book both presents novel readings of some of Foucault s most widely read and commented-on works (such as Discipline and Punish, the first volume of History of Sexuality), and discusses the variety of his lectures, essays, and interviews, some of which have not been noted before.

Moving beyond a commentary on Foucault, Siisiainen goes on to examine other philosophers and political thinkers (including Roland Barthes, Jean-Luc Nancy and Jacques Ranci re) in this context in order to bring to the fore the potentials in Foucault s work for the generation of a new perspective for the political genealogy of the sound, hearing, and listening, approaching the former as a key locus of contemporary political struggles.

This work will be of great interest to students and scholars in a range of areas including political theory, philosophy, and cultural studies.

How Emotions Are Made - The Secret Life of the Brain (Paperback): Lisa Feldman Barrett How Emotions Are Made - The Secret Life of the Brain (Paperback)
Lisa Feldman Barrett 1
R343 R281 Discovery Miles 2 810 Save R62 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

'By the deepest thinker about this topic since Darwin' Daniel Gilbert, author of the bestseller Stumbling on Happiness

'Fascinating . . . a thought-provoking journey into emotion science' The Wall Street Journal

'This meticulous, well-researched, and deeply thought out book provides information about our emotions - what they are, where they come from, why we have them. For anyone who has struggled to reconcile brain and heart, this book will be a treasure; it explains the science without short-changing the humanism of its topic' Andrew Solomon, bestselling author of Far From the Tree and The Noonday Demon

When you feel anxious, angry, happy, or surprised, what's really going on inside of you?

Many scientists believe that emotions come from a specific part of the brain, triggered by the world around us. The thrill of seeing an old friend, the fear of losing someone we love - each of these sensations seems to arise automatically and uncontrollably from within us, finding expression on our faces and in our behaviour, carrying us away with the experience.

This understanding of emotion has been around since Plato. But what if it is wrong? In How Emotions Are Made, pioneering psychologist and neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett draws on the latest scientific evidence to reveal that our common-sense ideas about emotions are dramatically, even dangerously, out of date - and that we have been paying the price. Emotions aren't universally pre-programmed in our brains and bodies; rather they are psychological experiences that each of us constructs based on our unique personal history, physiology and environment.

This new view of emotions has serious implications: when judges issue lesser sentences for crimes of passion, when police officers fire at threatening suspects, or when doctors choose between one diagnosis and another, they're all, in some way, relying on the ancient assumption that emotions are hardwired into our brains and bodies. Revising that conception of emotion isn't just good science, Barrett shows; it's vital to our well-being and the health of society itself.

Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Merleau-Ponty and Phenomenology of Perception (Hardcover): Komarine Romdenh-Romluc Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Merleau-Ponty and Phenomenology of Perception (Hardcover)
Komarine Romdenh-Romluc
R3,337 Discovery Miles 33 370 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908 ? 1961) is hailed as one of the key philosophers of the twentieth century. Phenomenology of Perception is his most famous and influential work, and an essential text for anyone seeking to understand phenomenology. In this GuideBook Komarine Romdenh-Romluc introduces and assesses:

  • Merleau-Ponty's life and the background to his philosophy
  • the key themes and arguments of Phenomenology of Perception
  • the continuing importance of Merleau-Ponty's work to philosophy.

Merleau-Ponty and Phenomenology of Perception is an ideal starting point for anyone coming to his great work for the first time. It is essential reading for students of Merleau-Ponty, phenomenology and related subjects in the Humanities and Social Sciences.

The Creation of Scientific Psychology (Paperback): David J. Murray, Stephen W. Link The Creation of Scientific Psychology (Paperback)
David J. Murray, Stephen W. Link
R1,208 Discovery Miles 12 080 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

With an emphasis on developments taking place in Germany during the nineteenth century, this book provides in-depth examinations of the key contributions made by the pioneers of scientific psychology. Their works brought measurement and mathematics into the study of the mind. Through unique analysis of measurement theory by Whewell, mathematical developments by Gauss, and theories of mental processes developed by Herbart, Weber, Fechner, Helmholtz, Muller, Delboeuf and others, this volume maps the beliefs, discoveries, and interactions that constitute the very origins of psychophysics and its offspring Experimental Psychology. Murray and Link expertly combine nuanced understanding of linguistic and historic factors to identify theoretical approaches to relating physicalintensities and psychological magnitudes. With an eye to interactions and influences on future work in the field, the volume illustrates the important legacy that mathematical developments in the nineteenth century have for twentieth and twenty-first century psychologists. This detailed and engaging account fills a deep gap in the history of psychology. The Creation of Scientific Psychology will appeal to researchers, academics, and students in the fields of history of psychology, psychophysics, scientific, and mathematical psychology.

Thought and Feeling - Cognitive Alteration of Feeling States (Paperback): Richard E. Nisbett Thought and Feeling - Cognitive Alteration of Feeling States (Paperback)
Richard E. Nisbett
R1,358 Discovery Miles 13 580 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Recently there has been growing awareness and acceptance of the proposition that people do not exist in a world of physically defined forces and events, but in a world defined by their own perceptions, cognitions, conclusions, and imaginations. We respond and react not to some objectively defined set of stimuli, but to our own apperceptions of stimuli that we define subjectively. The original essays in this volume center on one aspect of this process of attribution: The extent to which the perception of events and causes results in the determination, modification, or alteration of emotions, feelings, and affective states.

This book is divided into five sections, each of which elucidates and extends these theoretical conceptions. Part 1 provides a historical background and analytical framework for the rest of the book. Part 2 presents chapters dealing with the sorts of internal cues which may give rise to a feeling state. Part 3 presents a chapter discussing the evaluative needs aroused by the internal cues. Part 4 is concerned with the process of explanation triggered by the evaluative needs. Part 5 deals with various external cues and how they are used to label the internal feeling state. There is a concluding discussion of the cognitive alteration of feeling states.

The authors deal with aggression, boredom, obesity, the control of pain, and delusional systems. This volume is of continuing importance to clinical and experimental psychologists as well as social psychologists. Each of the authors takes the theoretical concept of cognition and relates it to research in biofeedback, physiology, social psychology, altered states of consciousness, etc. Thus, the book bridges the gap between cognitive theory and the use of that theory in applied research.

The Sense of Hearing (Hardcover, 4th edition): Christopher J. Plack The Sense of Hearing (Hardcover, 4th edition)
Christopher J. Plack
R4,081 Discovery Miles 40 810 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Sense of Hearing is a highly accessible introduction to auditory perception, addressing the fundamental aspects of hearing. This fourth edition has been revised to include up-to-date research and references. In particular, Chapter 7 on Pitch and Periodicity Coding and Chapter 13 on Hearing Loss include new material to reflect the fast pace of research in these areas. The book introduces the nature of sound and the spectrum, and the anatomy and physiology of the auditory system, before discussing basic auditory processes such as frequency selectivity, loudness and pitch perception, temporal resolution, and sound localization. Subsequent chapters show how complex processes such as perceptual organization, speech perception, and music perception are dependent on the initial analysis that occurs when sounds enter the ear. The book concludes with a description of the physiological bases and perceptual consequences of hearing loss, as well as the latest diagnostic techniques and management options that are available. Featuring student-friendly resources, including an overview of research techniques, an extensive glossary of technical terms, and over 150 original illustrations, The Sense of Hearing offers a clear introduction and an essential resource for students in the fields of audiology and sound perception.

Seven (And A Half) Lessons About The Brain (Hardcover): Lisa Feldman Barrett Seven (And A Half) Lessons About The Brain (Hardcover)
Lisa Feldman Barrett 1
R380 R297 Discovery Miles 2 970 Save R83 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Have you ever wondered why you have a brain? Let renowned neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett demystify that big grey blob between your ears.

In seven short essays (plus a bite-sized story about how brains evolved), this slim, entertaining, and accessible collection reveals mind-expanding lessons from the front lines of neuroscience research. You’ll learn where brains came from, how they’re structured (and why it matters), and how yours works in tandem with other brains to create everything you experience. Along the way, you’ll also learn to dismiss popular myths such as the idea of a 'lizard brain' and the alleged battle between thoughts and emotions, or even between nature and nurture, to determine your behaviour.

Sure to intrigue casual readers and scientific veterans alike, Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain is full of surprises, humour, and important implications for human nature - a gift of a book that you will want to savour again and again.

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