What is special about the human brain?
Richard Passingham.
The mental gap between man and ape is immense. As the brain is the organ of the mind, we must assume that throughout evolution there were changes in the brain that created this gap. This book is a search for those changes. Written in a lively style, the book is a far-reaching and exciting quest for those things that make humans unique.
The mental gap --
The anatomy of the brain --
Perception --
Manual skill --
Speech and language --
Cerebral dominance --
Decision-making and planning --
Reasoning --
Social cognition.
The mental gap --
The anatomy of the brain --
Perception --
Manual skill --
Speech and language --
Cerebral dominance --
Decision-making and planning --
Reasoning --
Social cognition.
Kategori:
Tahun:
2008
Penerbit:
Oxford University Press
Bahasa:
english
Halaman:
241
ISBN 10:
0199230137
ISBN 13:
9780199230136
Nama siri:
Oxford psychology series, no. 46.
Fail:
PDF, 2.01 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2008