Origin of the mind; From viruses to beliefs

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Traditionally, we explain human behavior in terms of ¿mental activity¿. We believe that our actions are the result of emotions, attitudes, conscious thinking and personality. Subsequently, the brain has been regarded as a ¿Swiss penknife¿, each anatomical part being a specialized tool for a certain faculty, the same faculties we found in the psychology textbooks. But what is the nature of this taxonomy, how was it established and how sure of its validity are we? This theoretical scheme is known to be grounded in the philosophical heritage of Ancient Greece. Now, 2000 years after Plato and Aristotle, various authors argue that the use of concepts extracted from traditional psychology hinders the understanding of brain functions and instead of trying to match the brain activity with psychology textbooks we should rather try to understand the actual function of different brain networks, the representations they entail and the processes they employ. The objective of this book is to uncover the actual basis of behavior and what we traditionally call ¿mental activity¿, the way in which they develop whilst interacting with the environment and how they have evolved.

Über den Autor

Dragos Cirneci took his PhD in Psychology and become specialized in cognitive and behavioral neurosciences. He studied the brain¿s mechanisms involved in addiction and in processing ambiguity, the connection between sensitivity to social rejection and the immune response, and the relationship between learning and mechanisms involved in DNA repair.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2013
Genre:	Psychologie
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	344 S.
ISBN-13:	9783659504907
ISBN-10:	3659504904
Sprache:	Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage:	Paperback
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Cirneci, Dragos
Hersteller:	LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
Maße:	220 x 150 x 21 mm
Von/Mit:	Dragos Cirneci
Erscheinungsdatum:	15.12.2013
Gewicht:	0,53 kg

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