Consciousness and cognition : fragments of mind and brain / edited by Henri Cohen and Brigitte Stemmer. — Amsterdam : Elxevier Academic Press, c2007.—(59.83/C755)

Contents

        Contents
    
    Contributors viii
    Introduction xxvi
    1. How Did Modem Human Cognition Evolve? 3
    2. Taking Up Arms 19
    3. Celebrating 300 Million Years of the Mind: A Bird's Eye View 29
    4. Was Medieval Cell Doctrine More Modem Than We Thought? 45
    5. Can Evolution Produce Robots? 53
    6. The Thought-Translation Device 69
    7. Babes in Arms: Studies in Laterality 83
    8. Why a Creative Brain? Evolutionary Setups for Off-Line Planning of Coherent Stages 115
    9. Creativity: Method or Magic? 127
    10. The Cross-Cultural Brain 139
    11. Where's the Missing Body? A Puzzle for Cognitive Science 149
    12. Whose Free Will is it Anyway? or， The Illusion of Determinism 163
    13. Affective Neuroscience and the Ancestral Sources of Human Feelings 173
    14. The Funny Meat Behind Our Eyes 191
    15. Practicing Safe Stress: A Selective Overview of the Neuroscience Research 205
    16. Petrol Sniffing， the Brain， and Aboriginal culture: Between Sorcery and Neuroscience 225
    17. Chatting with Noam Chomsky 245
    Index 255