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for her research on the neural basis of primate social
cognition, Leslie Brothers, M.D., offers here a major
argument about the social dimension of the human brain,
drawing on both her own work and a wealth of information
from research laboratories, neurosurgical clinics, and
psychiatric wards.
Brothers offers the tale of Robinson Crusoe as a
metaphor for neuroscience's classic (and flawed) notion of
the brain: a starkly isolated figure, working, praying,
writing alone. But the famous castaway of literature, she
notes, came from society and returned to society. So too
with our brains: they have evolved a specialized capacity
for exchanging signals with other brains--they are designed
to be social. This can be seen in the brain's sensitive
attunement to the meanings of facial expressions and
physical gestures and the way it assigns mental lives to
physical bodies--a feat we too often take for granted. Brothers describes fascinating case studies that show that
certain kinds of brain damage can destroy a patient's
ability to interpret faces, leaving him or her with the
sense that they are surrounded by zombies. She takes us down
to the level of the individual neuron, exploring the
response of brain cells to social events. Perhaps most
important, she connects neuroscience, psychiatry, and
sociology as never before, showing how our daily interaction
creates an organized social world--a network of brains that
generates meaningful behavior and thought. Our emotions and
our sense of self have no existence outside of a social
context. Brothers conducts her argument with grace and style.
By broadening our approach to the brain, this groundbreaking
book makes an important contribution to our understanding of
the human mind.
for her research on the neural basis of primate social
cognition, Leslie Brothers, M.D., offers here a major
argument about the social dimension of the human brain,
drawing on both her own work and a wealth of information
from research laboratories, neurosurgical clinics, and
psychiatric wards.
Brothers offers the tale of Robinson Crusoe as a
metaphor for neuroscience's classic (and flawed) notion of
the brain: a starkly isolated figure, working, praying,
writing alone. But the famous castaway of literature, she
notes, came from society and returned to society. So too
with our brains: they have evolved a specialized capacity
for exchanging signals with other brains--they are designed
to be social. This can be seen in the brain's sensitive
attunement to the meanings of facial expressions and
physical gestures and the way it assigns mental lives to
physical bodies--a feat we too often take for granted. Brothers describes fascinating case studies that show that
certain kinds of brain damage can destroy a patient's
ability to interpret faces, leaving him or her with the
sense that they are surrounded by zombies. She takes us down
to the level of the individual neuron, exploring the
response of brain cells to social events. Perhaps most
important, she connects neuroscience, psychiatry, and
sociology as never before, showing how our daily interaction
creates an organized social world--a network of brains that
generates meaningful behavior and thought. Our emotions and
our sense of self have no existence outside of a social
context. Brothers conducts her argument with grace and style.
By broadening our approach to the brain, this groundbreaking
book makes an important contribution to our understanding of
the human mind.
- 1: When Mindmaking Fails
- 2: More on Making Mind
- 3: The Brain's Social Specialization
- 4: The Editor Speaks
- 5: The Shift to a Social Perspective
- 6: Talking Faces
- 7: Worlds We Create
- 8: In Search of Emotion
- 9: Psychoanalytic Performances and Narratives
- 10: Exile's End
- Index
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2001 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Importe, Politikwissenschaft & Soziologie |
| Rubrik: | Wissenschaften |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| ISBN-13: | 9780195147049 |
| ISBN-10: | 0195147049 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Brothers, Leslie |
| Hersteller: | Oxford University Press |
| Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de |
| Maße: | 234 x 156 x 11 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Leslie Brothers |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 11.10.2001 |
| Gewicht: | 0,319 kg |
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