The most striking, interesting, yet poorly understood gross morphological features of the
cerebral hemispheres in mammals are the diverse and complex arrangements of their …

Publisher Summary This chapter focuses on the qualitative and quantitative comparison of
the prefrontal cortex (PFC) in rats and in primates, including humans. Comparing the …

Human change processes: The scientific foundations of psychotherapy. Human change
processes: The scientific foundations of psychotherapy. Citation Mahoney, MJ (1991). Human …

Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 4th Edition, is a revised and updated edition of the
landmark text focusing on the development of brain and behaviour during infancy …

How does evolution grow bigger brains? It has been widely assumed that growth of
individual structures and functional systems in response to niche-specific cognitive …

Most investigators believe that nonhuman primates do not have population-level
asymmetries of hand preference. This conclusion, if correct, would imply de novo evolution …

For years, psychiatry has operated without a unified theory of behavior; instead, it has
spawned a pluralism of approaches--including biomedical, psychoanalytic, behavioral, and …

Philosophy of Psychology: Contemporary Readings is a comprehensive anthology that
includes classic and contemporary readings from leading philosophers. Addressing in depth …

Beginning with a historical perspective of research on the thalamus," Thalamic Oscillations
and Signaling" describes the morphological organization of the thalamus, the intrinsic and …

“Sign stimuli” elicit specific patterns of behavior when an organism's motivation is
appropriate. In the toad, visually released prey-catching involves orienting toward the prey …