Autobiographical memory constitutes an essential part of our personality, giving us the ability to distinguish ourselves as an individual with a past, present and future. This book reveals how the development of a conscious self, an integrated personality and an autobiographical memory are all intertwined, highlighting the parallel development of the brain, memory and personality.

Focusing strongly on developmental aspects of memory and integrating evolutionary and anthropological perspectives, areas of discussion include:

• why non-human animals lack autobiographical memory
• development of the speech areas in the brain
• prenatal and transnatal development of memory
• autobiographical memory in young children.

This book offers a unique approach through combining both neuroscientfic and social scientific viewpoints, and as such will be of great interest to all those wanting to broaden their knowledge of the development and acquisition of memory and the conscious self.

Autobiographical memory constitutes an essential part of our personality, giving us the ability to distinguish ourselves as an individual with a past, present and future. This book reveals how the development of a conscious self, an integrated personality and an autobiographical memory are all intertwined, highlighting the parallel development of the brain, memory and personality. Focusing strongly on developmental aspects of memory and integrating evolutionary and anthropological perspectives, areas of discussion include: why non-human animals lack autobiographical memory development of the speech areas in the brain prenatal and transnatal development of memory autobiographical memory in young children. This book offers a unique approach through combining both neuroscientfic and social scientific viewpoints, and as such will be of great interest to all those wanting to broaden their knowledge of the development and acquisition of memory and the conscious self.

Until recently jurisprudence largely ignored neuroscientific findings. The advent of sophisticated methodologies in the neurosciences - in particular brain imaging techniques - reduced this unawareness, and findings, pointing to clear and unequivocal relations between brain structure and brain function on the one side and personality dimensions on the other, led to a growing interest of jurisprudence in brain research. The Special Issue is intended to provide an overview over the most recent findings and technological refinements in the field of crime related neuroscientific investigations. It covers genetics, functional brain imaging, mind reading, lie detection, and many other topics.

Die Sunden des Gedachtnisses - von Vergessen bis Umdeuten von Ereignissen - sind Thema dieses Sachbuches von Sina Kuhnel und Hans Markowitsch, die an den falschen Erinnerungen die Funktionsweise und den richtigen Gebrauch unseres Gedachtnisses verdeutlichen. Auf anregende und verstandliche Weise, sogar zum Entspannen, denn Stress - das ist ein spannendes neues Ergebnis aus der Hirnphysiologie, ist Gift fur genaues Erinnern."

Gehirn und Verhalten ist das Thema eines PrA1/4fungsfachs, das an allen psychologischen FakultAten gelehrt wird, wenn auch unter verschiedenen Bezeichnungen: Biologische oder kurz Bio-Psychologie, physiologische Psychologie, auch Neuropsychologie. Dieses Lehrbuch von drei physiologischen Psychologen aus Bielefeld und Landau ist mit Blick auf die faszinierenden Prozesse im KArper geschrieben, die unser Verhalten steuern, sei es wahrnehmen, denken oder handeln. In vier groAen Abschnitten werden die methodischen und physiologischen Grundlagen, die Sinnessysteme, die Regulationsfunktionen von Gehirn und Nervensystem zusammen mit Hormon- und Immunsystem, hAhere Funktionen des Bewusstseins wie GedAchtnis und Aufmerksamkeit und schlieAlich FunktionsstArungen bei neurologischen Erkrankungen, psychischen StrArungen oder Sucht beschrieben.