Published September, 2012
By Jacob A. Burack, James T. Enns and Nathan A. Fox
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
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Published September, 2012
By Michael J. Beran, Johannes Brandl, Josef Perner and Joelle Proust
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Metacognition refers to the awareness an individual has of their own mental processes. In the past thirty years metacognition research has become a rapidly growing field of interdisciplinary research within the cognitive sciences. This book brings together leading cognitive scientists to consider some of the key questions regarding this phenomenon.

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Published September, 2012
By Alain Destexhe and Romain Brette
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Leading experts describe the various existing techniques for measuring neural activity (for example, intracellular recording and electroencephalograms). Readers will come to understand the physical principles underlying each technique and the precise relationship between the measured signals and neural activity.

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Published September, 2012
By Bullock and Basar
Publisher: Springer (Birkhauser Boston Inc)
Series: Brain Dynamics
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An explosion of activity quickly fol lowed: studies were made of the brain waves in virtually every conceivable behavioral state, ranging from normal human subjects to those with major psychoses or with epilepsy, to state changes such as the sleep-wakefulness transition.

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Published September, 2012
By G. Bard Ermentrout and David H. Terman
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics
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This book applies methods from nonlinear dynamics to problems in neuroscience. The intended audience is researchers interested in applying mathematics to important problems in neuroscience, and neuroscientists who would like to understand how to create models, as well as the mathematical and computational methods for analyzing them.

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Published September, 2012
By Murray B. Stein and Thomas Steckler
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences
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The book is part of a series on Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences, which has as its focus anxiety and its treatment. This is followed by a review and update of the epidemiology of anxiety disorders by Ron Kessler and colleagues, which provides an authoritative survey of anxiety disorder incidence, prevalence, and risk factors.

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Published September, 2012
By Derrick de Kerckhove, Charles J. Lumsden and Charles Lumsden
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
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This book is a consequence of the suggestion that a major key to ward understanding cognition in any advanced culture is to be found in the relationships between processing orthographies, lan guage, and thought.

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Published September, 2012
By Friedrich G. Barth, Joseph A.C. Humphrey and Timothy W. Secomb
Publisher: Springer (Springer Verlag GmbH)
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Biological sensors are usually remarkably small, sensitive and efficient. This book is designed to fill an urgent need for interdisciplinary exchange between biologists studying sensors in the natural world and engineers and physical scientists developing artificial sensors.

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Published August, 2012
By Klaus Ballanyi
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Neuromethods
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Advances in methodologies and experimental models are pivotal to furthering our understanding of central nervous system (CNS) functions in mammals.

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Published August, 2012
By Gunther Palm
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
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The generalized information concept is called novelty and it is accompanied by two new concepts derived from it, designated as information and surprise, which describe "opposite" versions of novelty, information being related more to classical information theory and surprise being related more to the classical concept of statistical significance.

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