Introducing mind & brain. ([2018?])

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Introducing mind and brain
• Uniform Title: Mind & brain for beginners
• Further Information: Note: Angus Gellatly & Oscar Zarate ; originating editor: Richard Appignanesi.
• Authors: Gellatly, Angus
• Editors: Appignanesi, Richard
• Other Names: Zarate, Oscar 1942- artist.
• Contents: Mind and brain : a brief history -- Inventing the mind -- What is the mind? -- Meet the brain -- Matter or spirit? -- Pioneer map-makers -- The mind of the gaps -- Ventricles, tissues and the mind -- A fish called Wondercure -- Bumps on the head -- The beginning of localization -- Beginning to assemble brain functions -- Tracing the progress -- Neurons and glia -- Grey and white matters -- The electric brain -- Abnormal firing -- The chemical brain -- Chemical malfunctions -- Brain, hormones and body -- The geography of the human brain -- Evolution and development -- The hindbrain -- The midbrain -- The forebrain -- Left and right hemispheres (LH and RH) -- Mental abilities -- Simple minds 1 : the sea slug -- Simple minds 2 : frogs and toads -- Simple minds 3 : birds -- Simple minds 4 : human beings -- Complex minds and computers -- Language and the brain -- Disorders of language : the aphasias -- A model of language use -- Language and all the brain -- Language, interpretation and action -- Movement and mind -- Tuning the movements -- Two motor movement control systems -- Levels of control of movement -- The motor system -- Damage to the motor system -- The origins of voluntary movement -- Proprioception and body ego -- Smells and emotions -- Emotional reaction -- The anatomy of fear -- Fearful symmetry -- Sub-cortical learning -- Knowing when to be afraid -- Emotions "left and right" -- Emotional tone -- Emotion and reason -- Emotions involved in decisions -- Memory makes you flexible -- What amnesia tells us about mind -- Two kinds of memory -- Memory with and without emotions -- The location of memories -- The complexity of memory -- Sensing and seeing -- The anatomy of vision -- Visual areas : colours, directions and shapes -- Loss of colour -- Motion blindness -- Higher level vision -- The lower visual pathway : effects of injury on recognition -- A recognition test -- The middle visual pathway : relative spatial positions -- The upper visual pathway : effects of Parietal Damage -- Mind spaces -- Visual, motor and imaginai spaces -- Representations of space -- Attention and the mind -- Experiments with attention -- The attentional network -- Mental grasp -- What is consciousness? -- Blindsight -- Working memory -- The central executive in Area 46 -- Narrative consciousness -- Free will and the frontal lobes -- Responsive movements -- Effects of frontal lobe damage -- FL damage and unwanted responses -- What is free will? -- The self -- Loss of self -- Denial of loss -- Dissolution of self -- Feelings of transcendence -- Alternative perceptions -- Sanity : beliefs and pathologies -- Explaining delusions -- Hearing voices -- The impostors delusion -- What do we learn about the mind from studying the brain? -- Evolution of the mind -- The social intellect -- Mind reading -- Do mental states exist outside our experience of them? -- The Heider experiment -- What about personal responsibility? -- Crime and punishment.
• Publisher Details: London : Icon Books Ltd
• Publication Date: 2018
• Copyright Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 612.82; Neuropsychology -- Comic books, strips, etc; Neuropsychology -- History -- Comic books, strips, etc; Neuropsychology -- History -- Popular works; Brain -- Comic books, strips, etc; Brain -- History -- Comic books, strips, etc; Brain -- History -- Popular works; Cerveau -- Bandes dessinées; Cerveau -- Histoire -- Bandes dessinées; Cerveau -- Histoire -- Ouvrages de vulgarisation; Brain; Neuropsychology; illustrated books; Comics (Graphic works); Graphic novels; History; Illustrated works; Nonfiction comics; Popular works; Illustrated works; Nonfiction comics; Graphic novels; Ouvrages illustrés; Bandes dessinées autres que de fiction
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781785783142; 1785783149
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.