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How the Brain Works
What Psychology Students Need to Know
Michael S.C. Thomas,Simon Green
- 296 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
How the Brain Works
What Psychology Students Need to Know
Michael S.C. Thomas,Simon Green
About This Book
Delve into the intricacies of the human mind with this engaging and insightful guide to how the brain works.
Written in a playful style and beautifully illustrated, this book is designed to support you as you embark on the beginning of your psychology degree. It provides an accessible guide to how the brain's structures and functions determine how the mind works, and how this fits into the bigger picture of our evolution and biology as a species.
From focus boxes that delve into specific topics to entertaining puzzles that bring the subject to life, this book will captivate your imagination while building your understanding of biological and cognitive psychology.
This is an essential read for undergraduate psychology students.
Michael S.C. Thomas is Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at Birkbeck, University of London.
Simon Green is a Chartered Psychologist and retired Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Birkbeck, University of London.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Detailed contents
- About the authors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction (and some puzzles)
- 2 Where the brain comes from: Evolution
- 3 What are the bits of the brain and what do they do?
- 4 How does a neuron work?
- 5 The brain is a computer
- 6 The brain is a biological organ, not a computer
- 7 How it gets to work this way: Development and learning
- 8 Working better, working worse, working different
- 9 Humans apart
- 10 Saving the planet
- 11 Conclusion (and answers to those puzzles)
- Bibliography
- Index