{"product_id":"the-mind-isbn-9780262044066","title":"The Mind","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn accessible and engaging account of the mind and its connection to the brain.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe mind encompasses everything we experience, and these experiences are created by the brain—often without our awareness. Experience is private; we can't know the minds of others. But we also don't know what is happening in our own minds. In this book, E. Bruce Goldstein offers an accessible and engaging account of the mind and its connection to the brain. He takes as his starting point two central questions—what is the mind? and what is consciousness?—and leads readers through topics that range from conceptions of the mind in popular culture to the wiring system of the brain. Throughout, he draws on the latest research, explaining its significance and relevance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGoldstein discusses how the mind has been described and studied since the nineteenth century, and surveys modern approaches to studying mind–brain connections; considers consciousness and how the nervous system creates experience; and explores the hidden mechanisms of the brain. Then, in the heart of the book, he focuses on one principle that holds across a wide range of the mind's functions: prediction. All the behaviors and physiological processes associated with prediction—including eye movements, tactile sensation, language, music, memory, and social processes—involve communication between different places in the brain. The mind emerges not from the firing of neurons in one specialized area but from communications that travel across what Goldstein calls “highways of the mind.”\u003c\/p\u003eCHAPTER   1: INTRODUCTION TO THE MIND\u003cbr\u003e THE MULTIFACETED MIND\u003cbr\u003e EARLY MEASUREMENTS OF THE MIND\u003cbr\u003e THE STUDY OF THE MIND IS SUSPENDED BY BEHAVIORISM\u003cbr\u003e A PARADIGM SHIFT TOWARDS THE STUDY OF THE MIND\u003cbr\u003e MEANWHILE, IN POPULAR CULTURE . . .\u003cbr\u003e MIND-BRAIN SKEPTICISM\u003cbr\u003e MIND-BRAIN CONNECTIONS\u003cbr\u003e CHAPTER 2: CONSCIOUSNESS AND EXPERIENCE\u003cbr\u003e WHAT IS CONSCIOUSNESS?\u003cbr\u003e CONSCIOUSNESS IN NON-HUMANS\u003cbr\u003e Are Plants Conscious?\u003cbr\u003e Consciousness in Non-Human Animals\u003cbr\u003e What Do Animals Experience?\u003cbr\u003e THE MYSTERIES OF HUMAN EXPERIENCE\u003cbr\u003e Can We Know What Someone Else Is Experiencing?\u003cbr\u003e Can Experience (Qualia) Be Inferred from Scientific Knowledge?\u003cbr\u003e THE CREATION OF EXPERIENCE\u003cbr\u003e Experience Is Created by the Nervous System\u003cbr\u003e How Is Experience Created by the Nervous System?\u003cbr\u003e THE NEURAL CORRELATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS\u003cbr\u003e Localization of Function\u003cbr\u003e Distributed Representation\u003cbr\u003e 6\u003cbr\u003e CHAPTER 3: THE HIDDEN MIND\u003cbr\u003e HIDDEN PROCESSES REVEALED BY BRAIN DAMAGE\u003cbr\u003e Visual Agnosia: Seeing Without Recognizing\u003cbr\u003e ...\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 2021 Outstanding Academic Title\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The accessibility, clear writing, and friendly tone of this text make it a good choice for undergraduate upper-level courses and seminars.\"—\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003eE. Bruce Goldstein is Associate Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Pittsburgh and currently teaches courses about the mind for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Carnegie-Mellon University, the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Arizona. An award-winning textbook writer, he is the author of \u003ci\u003eSensation and Perception\u003c\/i\u003e (now in its tenth edition) and \u003ci\u003eCognitive Psychology\u003c\/i\u003e (now in its fifth edition).","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302450221285,"sku":"NP9780262044066","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262044066.jpg?v=1767740513","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-mind-isbn-9780262044066","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}