Published February, 2014
By E. Tory Higgins
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
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How does motivation work? Scientific research shows that people are motivated to be effective in different ways that go beyond the pursuit of pleasure and the avoidance of pain. In this text, E. Tory Higgins provides a new theory of motivation that argues that people are motivated by the pursuit of value, truth, and control.

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Published February, 2014
By Earl E. Carstens, Tasuku Akiyama and E. Carstens
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (CRC Press Inc)
Series: Frontiers in Neuroscience
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Published February, 2014
By Farid Rahimi and Gal Bitan
Publisher: Springer
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Amyloid-forming proteins are implicated in over 30 human diseases. Substantial evidence suggests these lesions are the end state of aberrant protein folding whereas the actual disease-causing culprits likely are soluble, non-fibrillar assemblies preceding the aggregates.

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Published February, 2014
By Alain Destexhe and Michelle Rudolph-Lilith
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Springer Series in Computational Neuroscience
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Neuronal Noise combines experimental, theoretical and computational results to show how noise is inherent to neuronal activity, and how noise can be important for neuronal computations. The book covers many aspects of noise in neurons, with an emphasis on the largest source of noise: synaptic noise.

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Published February, 2014
By Hendrikus Duifhuis
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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Even though it has been clear that the intact cochlea operates nonlinearly, lack of tools for proper nonlinear analysis, and widely available tools for linear analysis still lead to inefficient and possibly incorrect interpretation of the biophysics of the cochlea.

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Published February, 2014
By Allison D. Fryer, Arthur Christopoulos and Neil M. Nathanson
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology
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Published February, 2014
By Hans-Georg Joost
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology
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Thus, the mechanisms of appetite control as well as all agents interfering with its control are of considerable practical interest.The authors of the volume are distinguished scientists who are leading experts in the field, and who have contributed important, original data to our understanding of the mechanisms of appetite control.

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Published February, 2014
By Tade Matthias Spranger
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
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It has now become nearly impossible to maintain an overview of the number of research projects dealing with the functionality of the brain - for example concerning its organizational structure - or projects dealing with the topics of legal responsibility, brain-computer interface applications, neuromarketing, lie detection or mind reading.

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Published February, 2014
By Rosemary Tannock and Clare Stanford
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences
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In this volume there is a strong emphasis on translational science, with preclinical approaches suggesting new directions for development of new treatments.

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Published February, 2014
By Patrick Stalph
Publisher: Springer (Springer Vieweg)
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Manipulating or grasping objects seems like a trivial task for humans, as these are motor skills of everyday life. The author makes a connection between robotics and cognitive sciences by analyzing motor skill learning using implementations that could be found in the human brain - at least to some extent.

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