The Mind

E. Bruce Goldstein

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MIT Press
17 November 2020

Psychology

An accessible and engaging account of the mind and its connection to the brain.

An accessible and engaging account of the mind and its connection to the brain.

The mind encompasses everything we experience, and these experiences are created by the brain-often without our awareness. Experience is private; we can't know the minds of others. But we also don't know what is happening in our own minds. In this book, E. Bruce Goldstein offers an accessible and engaging account of the mind and its connection to the brain. He takes as his starting point two central questions-what is the mind? and what is consciousness?-and leads readers through topics that range from conceptions of the mind in popular culture to the wiring system of the brain. Throughout, he draws on the latest research, explaining its significance and relevance.

Goldstein discusses how the mind has been described and studied since the nineteenth century, and surveys modern approaches to studying mind-brain connections; considers consciousness and how the nervous system creates experience; and explores the hidden mechanisms of the brain. Then, in the heart of the book, he focuses on one principle that holds across a wide range of the mind's functions- prediction. All the behaviors and physiological processes associated with prediction-including eye movements, tactile sensation, language, music, memory, and social processes-involve communication between different places in the brain. The mind emerges not from the firing of neurons in one specialized area but from communications that travel across what Goldstein calls ""highways of the mind.""

By: E. Bruce Goldstein
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 137mm,
Weight: 567g
ISBN: 9780262044066
ISBN 10: 0262044064
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 17 November 2020
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION TO THE MIND THE MULTIFACETED MIND EARLY MEASUREMENTS OF THE MIND THE STUDY OF THE MIND IS SUSPENDED BY BEHAVIORISM A PARADIGM SHIFT TOWARDS THE STUDY OF THE MIND MEANWHILE, IN POPULAR CULTURE . . . MIND-BRAIN SKEPTICISM MIND-BRAIN CONNECTIONS CHAPTER 2: CONSCIOUSNESS AND EXPERIENCE WHAT IS CONSCIOUSNESS? CONSCIOUSNESS IN NON-HUMANS Are Plants Conscious? Consciousness in Non-Human Animals What Do Animals Experience? THE MYSTERIES OF HUMAN EXPERIENCE Can We Know What Someone Else Is Experiencing? Can Experience (Qualia) Be Inferred from Scientific Knowledge? THE CREATION OF EXPERIENCE Experience Is Created by the Nervous System How Is Experience Created by the Nervous System? THE NEURAL CORRELATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS Localization of Function Distributed Representation 6 CHAPTER 3: THE HIDDEN MIND HIDDEN PROCESSES REVEALED BY BRAIN DAMAGE Visual Agnosia: Seeing Without Recognizing ...

E. Bruce Goldstein is Associate Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Pittsburgh and currently teaches courses about the mind for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Carnegie-Mellon University, the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Arizona. An award-winning textbook writer, he is the author of Sensation and Perception (now in its tenth edition) and Cognitive Psychology (now in its fifth edition).

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"Choice 2021 Outstanding Academic Title ""The accessibility, clear writing, and friendly tone of this text make it a good choice for undergraduate upper-level courses and seminars.""—Choice"

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