Feelings are mental experiences of body states. They signify physiological need (for
example, hunger), tissue injury (for example, pain), optimal function (for example, well …

How does the brain encode information about the environment? Decades of research have
led to the pervasive notion that the object-processing pathway in primate cortex consists of …

What determines the cortical location at which a given functionally specific region will arise
in development? We tested the hypothesis that functionally specific regions develop in their …

Rethinking Innateness asks the question," What does it really mean to say that a behavior is
innate?" The authors describe a new framework in which interactions, occurring at all levels …

Since Hilary Putnam offered multiple realization as an empirical hypothesis in the 1960s,
philosophical consensus has turned against the idea that mental processes could be …

In this important book, Susan Hurley sheds new light on consciousness by examining its
relationships to action from various angles. She assesses the role of agency in the unity of a …

Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 4th Edition, is a revised and updated edition of the
landmark text focusing on the development of brain and behaviour during infancy …

After limited sensory deafferentations in adult primates, somatosensory cortical maps
reorganize over a distance of 1 to 2 millimeters mediolaterally, that is, in the dimension …

Publisher Summary To extract information derived from one sensory modality and used in
another, shape can be known by touch and then can be identified correctly by sight. The …

Abstract [This book] presents the insights of more than 3 decades of empirical research on
the neural processes by which memory is formed, stored, and retrieved. Fuster focuses …