The Mind's Machine: Foundations of Brain and Behavior - Softcover

Watson, Neil V.; Breedlove, S. Marc

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1605357308 ISBN 13: 9781605357300

Publisher: Sinauer Associates is an imprint of Oxford University Press, 2018

Synopsis

The Mind's Machine, introduced in 2012, was written to impart the core concepts of behavioral neuroscience to students in a diverse range of disciplines, including not only psychology and the other life sciences, but art, philosophy, media studies, linguistics, and the like. Using streamlined text, full color art, novel pedagogical features, and real life examples and analogies, The Mind's Machine, Third Edition, engages students new to neuroscience without sacrificing accuracy. This accessible, reader friendly book is appropriate for brain and behavior, biopsychology, and physiological psychology courses.

About this title

About the Author

Neil V. Watson and the members of his lab at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada study sex-related aspects of the structure and function of the nervous system, with ongoing grant support from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. His research, which spans from the effects of hormones and pollutants on the structure of the nervous system to the relationships among social factors, cognition, and steroids in humans, has appeared in a variety of journals, including the Journal of Neuroscience, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, and Brain Research. Dr. Watson received his undergraduate and master's degrees from the University of Western Ontario and his Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia. Following a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley, he joined the faculty at SFU in 1996 where he is now Professor of Behavioral Neuroscience and Chair of Psychology. He teaches biological psychology to hundreds of undergraduate and graduate students each year.

S. Marc Breedlove, the Barnett Rosenberg Professor of Neuroscience at Michigan State University, has written over 130 scientific articles investigating the role of hormones in shaping the developing and adult nervous system, publishing in journals including Science, Nature, Nature Neuroscience, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. He is also passionate about teaching in the classroom, and in the greater community through interviews with the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, and Newsweek, as well as broadcast programs such as All Things Considered, Good Morning America, and Sixty Minutes. He has active grant support from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke and the National Institute of Mental Health. Dr. Breedlove is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Association for Psychological Science.

From the Back Cover

The most visually appealing and student-friendly featured brain and behavior book available, presenting an accessible, yet thorough, introduction to the field.

New to this edition: Learning objectives called "The Road Ahead" introduce each section to frame what students are expected to learn.

Updated coverage throughout, including over 400 new citations and over 500 figures in a 500-page book: a figure on every page!

Edition details

• Publisher: Sinauer Associates is an imprint of Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1605357308
• ISBN 13: 9781605357300
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 624