The new executive brain : frontal lobes in a complex world /

Elkhonon Goldberg's groundbreaking The Executive Brain was a classic of scientific writing, revealing how the frontal lobes command the most human parts of the mind. Now he offers a completely new book, providing fresh, iconoclastic ideas about the relationship between the brain and the mind. I...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Goldberg, Elkhonon
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Subjects:
Frontal lobes.
Neuropsychology.
Frontal Lobe > physiology
Mental Processes > physiology
Brain Diseases > physiopathology
Frontal Lobe
Lobes frontaux.
MEDICAL > Physiology.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Human Anatomy & Physiology.
Frontal lobes
Neuropsychology
Neuropsychologie
Cognitiewetenschap.
Neurologie.
Hersenen.
Hersenziekten.
Psychofysiologie.
Lobus frontalis cerebri.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • An end and a beginning : a dedication
  • The brain's chief executive : the frontal lobes at a glance
  • Architecture of the brain : a primer
  • The orchestra's front row : the cortex
  • Novelty, routines, and cerebral hemispheres
  • The conductor : a closer look at the frontal lobes
  • Emotion and cognition
  • Different lobes for different folks : decision-making styles and the frontal lobes
  • When the leader is wounded
  • Social maturity, morality, law, and the frontal lobes
  • Fateful disconnections
  • "What can you do for me?"
  • Breaking and entering : inside the black box
  • Frontal lobes and the leadership paradox.

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