The Oxford guide to the mind / edited by Geoffrey Underwood ; consulting editor Richard L. Gregory.
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TextPublisher: Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 2001Description: viii, 236 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN: 0198600836Subject(s): Cognition | Consciousness | Psychobiology | Psychology, Pathological | Psychology | Mind and body | Psychophysiology | Central nervous system | Neurophysiology | Psychophysiology | Brain -- physiology| Item type | Current location | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| 一般圖書 | 圖書館 | MO-0 O98 (Browse shelf) | Available | 0059846 |
The software of the mind : mental processes in sensation, perception, and cognition. Colour vision -- Extra-sensory perception -- Forgetting -- Hearing -- Illusions -- Models of mental processes -- Perception -- Remembering -- Short-term memory -- Smell -- Taste -- Touch.
The hardware of the mind : the biological basis of behaviour. Emotion -- Instinct -- Nervous system -- Neurotransmitters -- Pain -- Sleep.
Brain, mind, and consciousness. Anaesthesia -- Arousal -- Brain function and awareness -- Consciousness -- Dreaming -- Hypnosis -- Mind and body -- Psychosomatic disease -- Split-brain and the mind.
When minds are damaged. Amnesia -- Aphasia -- Cognitive deficits -- Connectionist models of cognitive deficits -- Dementia -- Epilepsy -- Mental handicap.
Disturbed minds. Addiction -- Anorexia and bulimia -- Anxiety -- Brain imaging psychological disorders -- Depression -- Mental illness -- Obsessions and compulsions -- Paranoia -- Phobias -- Psychopathic personality -- Psychosis -- Psychosurgery -- Schizophrenia -- Stress -- Suicidal behaviour -- Terror.
Minds in action. Driving a car. Accident proneness ; Attention ; Automatization ; Fatigue ; Learning and learning theory ; Memory for skills ; Skill ; Time-gap experience -- Solving problems. Appeal of problems ; Calculating geniuses ; Creativity ; Intelligence ; Lateral thinking ; Problem-solving.