The New Executive Brain by Goldberg, Elkhonon;

Frontal Lobes in a Complex World

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Kiadó OUP USA
Megjelenés dátuma 2009. augusztus 20.
Kötetek száma BC

ISBN 9780195329407
Kötéstípus Puhakötés
Terjedelem352 oldal
Méret 231x152x22 mm
Súly 499 g
Nyelv angol
Illusztrációk 25 figures

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Idegtudomány Ideggyógyászat, neurológia Elméleti pszichológia

Hosszú leírás:

Elkhonon Goldberg's groundbreaking The Executive Brain was a classic of scientific writing, revealing how the frontal lobes command the most human parts of the mind. Now he offers a completely new book, providing fresh, iconoclastic ideas about the relationship between the brain and the mind.
In The New Executive Brain, Goldberg paints a sweeping panorama of cutting-edge thinking in cognitive neuroscience and neuropsychology, one that ranges far beyond the frontal lobes. Drawing on the latest discoveries, and developing complex scientific ideas and relating them to real life through many fascinating case studies and anecdotes, the author explores how the brain engages in complex decision-making; how it deals with novelty and ambiguity; and how it addresses moral choices. At every step, Goldberg challenges entrenched assumptions. For example, we know that the left hemisphere of the brain is the seat of language--but Goldberg argues that language may not be the central adaptation of the left hemisphere. Apes lack language, yet many also show evidence of asymmetric hemispheric development. Goldberg also finds that a complex interaction between the frontal lobes and the amygdale--between a recently evolved and a much older part of the brain--controls emotion, as conscious thoughts meet automatic impulses. The author illustrates this observation with a personal example: the difficulty he experienced when trying to pick up a baby alligator he knew to be harmless, as his amygdala battled his effort to extend his hand.
In the years since the original Executive Brain, Goldberg has remained at the front of his field, constantly challenging orthodoxy. In this revised and expanded edition, he affirms his place as one of our most creative and insightful scientists, offering lucid writing and bold, paradigm-shifting ideas.

It is only nowthat we are beginning to get the full measure of complexity [of the living body], to see how nature and culture interact, and how brain and mind produce each other. There are a handful, a small handful, of remarkable books which address these central problems with great forcethose of Gerald Edelman and Antonio Damasio at once come to mindand to this select number, Elkhonon Goldbergs book, The Executive Brain, should surely be added.

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Tartalomjegyzék:

Introduction
An End and a Beginning: A Dedication
The Brain's Chief Executive: The Frontal Lobes at a Glance
The Many Faces of Leadership
The Executive Lobe
Architecture of the Brain: A Primer
The Microscopic View
The Macroscopic View
The Command Post and its Connections
The Orchestra's Front Row: The Cortex
Sounds and Players
Noah's Predicament and the Landscapes of the Brain
Neuropaganism: Module Madness
Cognitive Gradients and Cognitive Hierarchies
A Thing is a Thing
A Word to a Thing
Autonomy and Control in the Brain
Novelty, Routines, and Cerebral Hemispheres
Agnosias and Hemispheres
Executive Deficit and Hemispheres
The Conductor: A Closer Look at the Frontal Lobes
Novelty and the Frontal Lobes
Working Memory--or Working with Memory?
Freedom of Choice, Ambiguity, and the Frontal Lobes
Neuroeverything
Emotion and Cognition
Different Lobes for Different Folks: Decision-Making Styles and the Frontal Lobes
The Neuropsychology of Individual Differences
Male and Female Cognitive Styles
Frontal Lobes, Hemispheres, and Cognitive Styles
Cognitive Styles and Brain Writing
Rebels in Small Proportion: Handedness and Novelty Seeking
Executive Talents: The S Factor and the Theory of Mind
When the Leader is Wounded
The Fragile Frontal Lobes
Frontal Lobe Syndromes
Drive and Newtonian Bodies: A Dorsolateral Case Study
Plans and the "Memories of the Future"
Rigidity of Mind
Mind Blindspot: Anosognosia
Social Maturity, Morality, Law, and the Frontal Lobes
Orbitofrontal "Pseudopsychopathic" Syndrome and the Loss of Self-Control
Social Maturity and the Frontal Lobes
Biological Maturation and Social Maturity: A Historical Puzzle
Frontal Lobe Damage and Criminal Behavior
The Hapless Robber
Frontal Lobe Damage and the Public Blindspot
Fateful Disconnections
The Fallen Horseman: A Case Study
Schizophrenia: A Connection that was Never Made
Head Trauma: A Broken Connection
Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: A Fragile Connection
ADHD Conquered: How Toby from Down Under Reclaimed Himself
Jerky Ties and Ticky Jokes
The Cortex and the Striatum
"What Can You Do for Me?"
"Cognotropic" Drugs
Jogging the Brain
History of Cognitive Rehabilitation
Brain Plasticity and Cognitive Exercise
Cognitive Fitness: Beginning of a Trend
Beginnings of a Program
Breaking and Entering
Frontal Lobes and the Leadership Paradox
Autonomy and Control in the Brain
Autonomy and Control in Society
Autonomy and Control in the Digital World
Epilogue
References and Notes
Index