Sleep instinct, Meddis, Ray

Автор: Meddis
Название: The Sleep Instinct
ISBN: 113823222X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138232228
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: Most of us believe that we sleep in order to rest our tired bodies and minds. Originally published in 1977, this centuries-old common-sense view is challenged by Ray Meddis, who describes and argues for a controversial new theory of the nature and function of sleep.

Автор: Garnett, A. Campbell
Название: Instinct and Personality
ISBN: 0367188155 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367188153
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: Originally published in 1928, the principle aim of this book was to present and apply an original viewpoint in psychology. The work is substantially that of a thesis on "The Problem of Personality in the Light of Recent Psychology" for which the author was awarded the degree of Doctor of Letters in the University of Melbourne in 1925.

Автор: Nieder Andreas
Название: A Brain for Numbers: The Biology of the Number Instinct
ISBN: 0262042789 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780262042789
Издательство: MIT Press
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Описание: How our intuitive understanding of numbers is deeply rooted in our biology, traceable through both evolution and development.

Humans' understanding of numbers is intuitive. Infants are able to estimate and calculate even before they learn the words for numbers. How have we come to possess this talent for numbers? In A Brain for Numbers, Andreas Nieder explains how our brains process numbers. He reports that numerical competency is deeply rooted in our biological ancestry; it can be traced through both the evolution of our species and the development of our individual minds. It is not, as it has been traditionally explained, based on our ability to use language. We owe our symbolic mathematical skills to the nonsymbolic numerical abilities that we inherited from our ancestors. The principles of mathematics, Nieder tells us, are reflections of the innate dispositions wired into the brain.

Nieder explores how the workings of the brain give rise to numerical competence, tracing flair for numbers to dedicated "number neurons" in the brain. Drawing on a range of methods including brain imaging techniques, behavioral experiments, and twin studies, he outlines a new, integrated understanding of the talent for numbers. Along the way, he compares the numerical capabilities of humans and animals, and discusses the benefits animals reap from such a capability. He shows how the neurobiological roots of the brain's nonverbal quantification capacity are the evolutionary foundation of more elaborate numerical skills. He discusses how number signs and symbols are represented in the brain; calculation capability and the "neuromythology" of mathematical genius; the "start-up tools" for counting and developmental of dyscalculia (a number disorder analogous to the reading disorder dyslexia); and how the brain processes the abstract concept of zero.

Автор: Hardison
Название: From Instinct to Identity
ISBN: 1138523968 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138523968
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: From Instinct to Identity begins an account of personality development by tracing the legacy of the human species from its primate heritage to its present form