The Rosetta Stone of the Human Mind: Three Languages to Integrate Neurobiology and Psychology

Sanguineti, Vincenzo

ISBN 10: 0387336443 / ISBN 13: 9780387336442

Published by Springer, 2007

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Rosetta Stone of the Human Mind: Three Languages to Integrate Neurobiology and Psychology
• Publisher: Springer
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0387336443
• ISBN 13: 9780387336442
• Binding: Hard Cover, Pictorial Boards
• Condition: Fine

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Synopsis

The study of the brain-mind complex has been hampered by the dichotomy between objective biological neuroscience and subjective psychological science. This book presents a new theoretical model for how to "translate" between the two, using a third language: nonlinear physics and mathematics. It illustrates how the simultaneous use of these two approaches enriches the understanding of the neural and mental realms.

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The study of the brain-mind complex has been hampered by the dichotomy between objective biological neuroscience and subjective psychological science, based on speculative topographic models and psychodynamics formulations. The two antithetical avenues of research, premises, and dynamic hypotheses, have evolved in a polarization of neuroscience. This is partly responsible for the failure to unravel the transformation of neural events into mental images: how matter becomes imagination, and vice versa. The Rosetta Stone to the Human Mind: Three Languages to Integrate Neurobiology and Psychology illustrates how the simultaneous use of these two approaches enriches the understanding of the neural and mental realms, and adds new dimensions to our perception of neuropsychological events; how the two different scientific metaphors are similar in what they describe; and how the awareness and application of these perspectives are helpful in getting a deeper theoretical grasp on major mental events, better understanding single minds, and formulating a more integrated therapeutic intervention.