Kategoria BISAC: Medical >> Neuroscience

Changes in the neurological functions of the human brain are often a precursor to numerous degenerative diseases. Advanced EEG systems and other monitoring systems used in preventive diagnostic procedures incorporate innovative features for brain monitoring functions such as real-time automated signal processing techniques and sophisticated amplifiers. Highlighting the US, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Korea, China, and many other areas, EEG/ERP Analysis: Methods and Applications examines how researchers from various disciplines have started to work in the field of brain science,...

From flowers and perfumes to urban sanitation and personal hygiene, smell a sense that is simultaneously sublime and animalistic has played a pivotal role in western culture and thought. Greek and Roman writers and thinkers lost no opportunity to connect the smells that bombarded their senses to the social, political and cultural status of the individuals and environments that they encountered: godly incense and burning sacrifices, seductive scents, aromatic cuisines, stinking bodies, pungent farmyards and festering back-streets.

The cultural study of smell has largely focused on...

From flowers and perfumes to urban sanitation and personal hygiene, smell a sense that is simultaneously sublime and animalistic has played a pivotal role in western culture and thought. Greek and Roman writers and thinkers lost no opportunity to connect the smells that bombarded their senses to the social, political and cultural status of the individuals and environments that they encountered: godly incense and burning sacrifices, seductive scents, aromatic cuisines, stinking bodies, pungent farmyards and festering back-streets.

The cultural study of smell has largely focused on...

Warum wir uns so oft selbst im Weg stehen

Warum treffen wir immer wieder Entscheidungen, die unseren Bedurfnissen eigentlich zuwiderlaufen und unsere langfristigen Ziele gefahrden? Warum setzen wir uns bewusst Versuchungen aus, die wir besser meiden sollten? Warum neigen wir dazu, statistisch vollig normalen Ereignissen eine hohere Bedeutung zuzuschreiben? Und warum beharren wir darauf, recht zu haben, wenn doch alles fur das Gegenteil spricht?

David DiSalvo enthullt ein bemerkenswertes Paradox: Was unser Gehirn will, ist oft nicht das, was unser Gehirn...

Die Debatte zur sozialen Kognition ist ein zentrales Thema einer aktuell entstehenden Forschungslandschaft zur Interdisziplinaren Anthropologie. Der Band sammelt die Beitrage fuhrender Wissenschaftler/Innen in den Geistes-, Sozial- und Kulturwissenschaften und bindet sie in eine dialogische Form ein. Es zeigt sich, dass die interdisziplinare Forschung zur Sozialen Kognition an den Schnittstellen der Disziplinen neue Perspektiven fur ein zeitgemaes Verstandnis des Menschen eroffnet.

The availability of electric lighting has changed the lives of people the world over, yet as a major user of electricity it has come under increasing scrutiny in recent years. This scrutiny has focused largely on the environmental consequences, with little consideration of the benefits of lighting. Human Factors in Lighting, Third Edition restores some balance to the discussion by examining the ways in which people interact with lighting. These interactions influence the ability to perform visual tasks; the perception of people, objects, and spaces; human comfort and behavior; as well as...

Special features include:
* a new model of the neural control of eye movements;
* a developmental perspective on the burgeoning literature on the cognitive neuroscience of attention;
* the integration of ideas, research, and...

Sleep and anesthesia resemble in many ways at a first glance. The most prominent common feature of course is the loss of consciousness, i.e. the loss of awareness of external stimuli. However a closer look at the loss of consciousness reveals already a difference between sleep and anesthesia: anesthesia is induced by an anesthetic drug whereas we may fall asleep without external cause. Other questions may arise about the difference of the two effects: do we dream during surgery under anesthesia, do we feel pain during sleep? Essentially, we may ask: what is common and what are the...