Friday's footprint : how society shapes the human mind / Leslie Brothers.
Friday's footprint : how society shapes the human mind / Leslie Brothers.
Friday's footprint : how society shapes the human mind / Leslie Brothers.
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New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
Date
1997.
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N153/104
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English
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Physical content
xiv, 187 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents
1. A Failure to Connect -- 2. Building the Experience of Mind -- 3. The Brain's Social Specialization -- 4. The Editor Speaks -- 5. The Shift to a Social Perspective -- 6. Talking Faces -- 7. Worlds We Create -- 8. In Search of Emotion -- 9. Psychoanalytic Performances and Narratives -- 10. Exile's...
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Publisher
New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
1997.
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Summary
Brothers offers the tale of Robinson Crusoe as a metaphor for neuroscience's classic (and flawed) notion of the brain: a starkly isolated figure, working, praying, writing alone. But the famous castaway of literature, she notes, came from society and returned to society. So too with our brains: they have evolved a specialized capacity for exchangin...
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Friday's footprint : how society shapes the human mind / Leslie Brothers.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-179) and index.
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N153/104
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74VMQyODraRb
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0195147049 (pbk.)
9780195101034 (alk. paper)
0195101030 (alk. paper)
9780195147049 (pbk.)
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153
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991000605199702626
