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Category: Neuroscience books. 4 languages. ... Neuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system. This includes Neuroanatomy; Behavioral neuroscience;
The book is divided in three parts. The first part focuses on attention . Levitin explains why attention is the most essential mental resource for any organism and describes how the brain's attentional system works: it determines which aspects of the environment an individual will deal with, and what gets passed through to that individual's ...
The book is broken into 9 sections followed by an introductory bibliography on psychical research and 100 pages of references. Chapter 1: A View from the Mainstream: Contemporary Cognitive Neuroscience and the Consciousness Debates; Chapter 2: F. W. H. Myers and the Empirical Study of the Mind-Body Problem; Chapter 3: Psychophysiological Influence
In December 2021, Rod Dreher writes in The American Conservative that though Part I of The Matter with Things is a "fairly technical discussion of neuroscience", [18] the book is "more focused on the philosophical and metaphysical implications" of the hemispheric functioning of the brain proposed in his earlier book, The Master and His Emissary ...
2022 PROSE book award in Neuroscience of the Association of American Publishers for his 2021 Magnum Opus: Conscious Mind, Resonant Brain: How Each Brain Makes a Mind. 2022 Lofti A. Zadeh Pioneer Award from the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society for “seminal contributions to understanding brain cognition and behavior and their ...
A review in The Los Angeles Times said of the book: "What he's written is stimulating to read, even for those who doubt his conclusions." [3] A review in Science found it to have a "dismissive attitude toward how determinism might be compatible with free will" but was "well written" and "worth reading". [1]
Writing a review for Naturalism.org, the naturalist philosopher Tom Clark praises the book for its writing and "entertaining insight" into questions such as why the brain creates controlled hallucinations, who or what is the self, and where else beyond human brains "does consciousness arise", especially in the context of predictive processing. [6]
Brainwashing was first published in hardcover format on 16 December 2004 by Oxford University Press, and again in paperback format on 24 August 2006.The book was "highly commended" and runner-up in the 2005 Times Higher Education Supplement Young Academic Author Award, and also made it to the shortlist for the 2005 MIND "Book of the Year Award".