| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 334 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
An end and a beginning : a dedication -- The brain's chief executive : the frontal lobes at a glance -- Architecture of the brain : a primer -- The orchestra's front row : the cortex -- Novelty, routines, and cerebral hemispheres -- The conductor : a closer look at the frontal lobes -- Emotion and cognition -- Different lobes for different folks : decision-making styles and the frontal lobes -- When the leader is wounded -- Social maturity, morality, law, and the frontal lobes -- Fateful disconnections -- "What can you do for me?" -- Breaking and entering : inside the black box -- Frontal lobes and the leadership paradox |
| Summary |
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 fasci |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Frontal lobes.
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Neuropsychology.
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Frontal Lobe -- physiology
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Mental Processes -- physiology
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Brain Diseases -- physiopathology
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Frontal Lobe
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MEDICAL -- Physiology.
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Human Anatomy & Physiology.
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Frontal lobes
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Neuropsychology
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Neuropsychologie
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Cognitiewetenschap.
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Neurologie.
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Hersenen.
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Hersenziekten.
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Psychofysiologie.
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Lobus frontalis cerebri.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2009006253 |
| ISBN |
9780199731046 |
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0199731047 |
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9780199734429 |
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0199734429 |
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