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A Companion to Introductory Psychology

A Companion to Introductory Psychology

Autor: Frank M. Ferraro Iii

Número de Páginas: 147

A Companion to Introductory Psychology is a rich collection of thought-provoking chapters, which enhance student interest and promote group discussions, training entry-level students in critical thinking skills and engaging them with course material. Organized into five key sections—Biological, Cognition, Developmental, Social and Personality, and Mental and Physical Health—each features contemporary chapters accompanied by insightful discussion questions, further resources, and activities to encourage reflection by the reader and to promote group debate in a classroom context. These prompt readers to reflect deeply, to evaluate long-held beliefs and/or personal biases, and to assess controversial topics by analyzing them through a psychological lens. Mapped to the American Psychological Association Pillar model, this book will benefit a wide variety of audiences ranging from high school to college undergraduates. Primarily useful for courses in introductory psychology, this book is also practical for courses in behavioral neuroscience, cognitive psychology, developmental psychology, social psychology, health psychology, and abnormal and clinical psychology.

Exocortex

Exocortex

Autor: Fouad Sabry

Número de Páginas: 463

What Is Exocortex A brain?computer interface (BCI), which is often referred to as a brain?machine interface (BMI), is a direct communication link between the electrical activity of the brain and an external device, most frequently a computer or a robotic limb. BCIs are often directed at researching, mapping, assisting, augmenting, or repairing human cognitive or sensory-motor functions. Depending on how near the electrodes go to the brain tissue, BCIs may be implemented in a variety of ways, ranging from non-invasive to somewhat invasive to invasive. How You Will Benefit (I) Insights, and validations about the following topics: Chapter 1: Brain?computer interface Chapter 2: Neurotechnology Chapter 3: BrainGate Chapter 4: Miguel Nicolelis Chapter 5: Brain implant Chapter 6: Neuroprosthetics Chapter 7: Remote control animal Chapter 8: Neural engineering Chapter 9: Neural oscillation Chapter 10: Single-unit recording Chapter 11: Electrocorticography Chapter 12: Mu wave Chapter 13: Microelectrode array Chapter 14: Electroencephalography Chapter 15: Neurotrophic electrode Chapter 16: Imagined speech Chapter 17: Intendix Chapter 18: Stent-electrode recording array Chapter 19: Cortical...

Un cerebro a medida

Un cerebro a medida

Autor: Jean-didier Vincent , Pierre-marie Lledo

Número de Páginas: 229

Nuestro cerebro no es un órgano que permanezca inalterable en cuanto alcanzamos la edad adulta. Evoluciona a lo largo de nuestra vida. Y esta plasticidad abre perspectivas para quienes sufren trastornos provocados por algún traumatismo o una enfermedad degenerativa. ¿Nos encaminamos hacia una medicina regeneradora? Junto a ese cerebro reparado, ¿no hay también un cerebro aumentado, o bien dopado, que se perfila gracias a programas de adiestramiento cognitivo, a los psicoestimulantes, a las moléculas «inteligentes» y a otros implantes? Memoria fortalecida, visión nocturna perfecta, control a distancia de robots: ¿qué nos preparan las nuevas neurociencias? ¿Y si la inmortalidad no fuera simplemente un sueño?

The Brain Electric

The Brain Electric

Autor: Malcolm Gay

Número de Páginas: 272

The gripping and revelatory story of the dramatic race to merge the human brain with machines Leading neuroscience researchers are racing to unlock the secrets of the mind. On the cusp of decoding brain signals that govern motor skills, they are developing miraculous technologies to enable paraplegics and wounded soldiers to move prosthetic limbs, and the rest of us to manipulate computers and other objects through thought alone. These fiercely competitive scientists are vying for Defense Department and venture capital funding, prestige, and great wealth. Part life-altering cure, part science fiction, part military dream, these cutting-edge brain-computer interfaces promise to improve lives—but also hold the potential to augment soldiers' combat capabilities. In The Brain Electric, Malcolm Gay follows the dramatic emergence of these technologies, taking us behind the scenes into the operating rooms, start-ups, and research labs where the future is unfolding. With access to many of the field's top scientists, Gay illuminates this extraordinary race—where science, medicine, profit, and war converge—for the first time. But this isn't just a story about technology. At the heart...

This Will Change Everything

This Will Change Everything

Autor: John Brockman

Número de Páginas: 480

“This Will Change Everything offers seemingly radical but actually feasible ideas with the potential to change the world.”—Jared Diamond, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel Editor John Brockman continues in the same vein as his popular compilations What Are You Optimistic About and What Have You Changed Your Mind About with This Will Change Everything. Brockman asks 150 intellectual superstars “what game-changing scientific ideas and developments do you expect to live to see?” Their fascinating responses are collected here, from bestselling author of Atonement Ian McEwan to Nobel Prize-winning physicist Frank Wilczek to electronic music pioneer Brian Eno to writer, actor, director, and activist Alan Alda.

Más allá de nuestros limites

Más allá de nuestros limites

Autor: Miguel Nicolelis

Número de Páginas: 544

El neurocientífico Miguel Nicolelis expone sus ideas revolucionarias sobre el funcionamiento del cerebro y el pensamiento, y también sobre cómo podemos potenciar y mejorar la actividad mental con la ayuda de máquinas. Nicolelis narra con precisión cinematográfica algunos de sus experimentos: cómo adiestró ratas para percibieran magnéticamente el mundo o cómo consiguió que un grupo de primates pudieran controlar los movimientos de un brazo robotizado situado a miles de kilómetros de distancia únicamente con la actividad mental. Y del mismo modo que estas interfaces cerebro-máquina (las BMI por sus siglas en inglés Brain-Machine Interfaces) tuvieron éxito en los experimentos de Nicolelis, tal vez un día permitan devolver la movilidad a las extremidades de pacientes que actualmente sufren parálisis graves u ofrecer una vía para el tratamiento de trastornos neurológicos como la enfermedad de Parkinson.

The Department of Mad Scientists

The Department of Mad Scientists

Autor: Michael Belfiore

Número de Páginas: 379

The first-ever inside look at DARPA—the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency—the maverick and controversial group whose futuristic work has had amazing civilian and military applications, from the Internet to GPS to driverless cars America's greatest idea factory isn't Bell Labs, Silicon Valley, or MIT's Media Lab. It's the secretive, Pentagon-led agency known as DARPA. Founded by Eisenhower in response to Sputnik and the Soviet space program, DARPA mixes military officers with sneaker-wearing scientists, seeking paradigm-shifting ideas in varied fields—from energy, robotics, and rockets to peopleless operating rooms, driverless cars, and planes that can fly halfway around the world in just hours. DARPA gave birth to the Internet, GPS, and mind-controlled robotic arms. Its geniuses define future technology for the military and the rest of us. Michael Belfiore was given unprecedented access to write this first-ever popular account of DARPA. Visiting research sites across the country, he watched scientists in action and talked to the creative, fearlessly ambitious visionaries working for and with DARPA. Much of DARPA's work is classified, and this book is full of material ...

Sin imagen

El verdadero creador de todo

Autor: Miguel Nicolelis

Número de Páginas: 445

Miguel Nicolelis, profesor emérito de neurociencia, propone una visión cosmológica radicalmente nueva que sitúa el cerebro humano en el centro del universo. Miguel Nicolelis, uno de los neurocientíficos más relevantes de la actualidad, nos propone una visión cosmológica radicalmente nueva que sitúa el cerebro humano en el centro del universo.El renombrado neurocientífico Miguel Nicolelis presenta una nueva y revolucionaria teoría que explica cómo el cerebro humano evolucionó para convertirse en un ordenador orgánico sin rival en el universo conocido. Nicolelis asume el primer intento de explicar toda la historia, la cultura y la civilización humanas a partir de una serie de principios fundamentales del funcionamiento cerebral de reciente descubrimiento. Esta nueva cosmología está centrada en tres propiedades fundamentales del cerebro humano: su insuperable maleabilidad para adaptarse y aprender; su exquisita capacidad para permitir que múltiples individuos sincronicen sus mentes en relación a una tarea, un objetivo o una creencia; y su incomparable capacidad de abstracción. Combinando los conocimientos de diversos campos como la neurociencia, las matemáticas,...

I.D.

I.D.

Autor: Susan Greenfield

Número de Páginas: 328

A stark warning from one of the worlds leading neuroscientists about the threats to our individuality from modern living and what we can do about it.

Biotechnology

Biotechnology

Autor: Lynn Messina

Número de Páginas: 212

A collection of articles exploring the ethical, social, religious, economic and political implications of biotechnical innovations.

Annual Editions

Annual Editions

Autor: Kathryn Schellenberg

Número de Páginas: 244

A compilation of articles from such public sources as Technology Review, Communications of the ACM and Training looks at the use of computers and the increasingly important role they play in our lives. These selections examine the role computers play in our economy, our workplaces, our social institutions and explore the implications for interaction and social values. This title is supported by Dushkin Online (http: //www.dushkin.com/online)

The Old Farmer's Almanac

The Old Farmer's Almanac

Autor: Robert Bailey Thomas

Número de Páginas: 296

A compilation of practical advice and folklore features weather forecasts for the United States, planting tables, health remedies, horoscopes, recipes, games and puzzles, and other entertaining and useful information.

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