The Oxford guide to the mind / edited by Geoffrey Underwood ; consulting editor Richard L. Gregory. - Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. - viii, 236 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

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.

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Cognition.
Consciousness.
Psychobiology.
Psychology, Pathological.
Psychology.
Mind and body.
Psychophysiology.
Central nervous system.
Neurophysiology
Psychophysiology
Brain--physiology