Published September, 2008
By David Lloyd and Ernest Rossi
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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1 Biological Rhythms and Clocks From an evolutionary perspective, the adaptation of an organism's behavior to its environment has depended on one of life's fundamental traits: biological rhythm generation.

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Published September, 2008
By David W. McCandless
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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These disorders hold a special fascination for both basic scientists and clinical investigators because they are accessible, treatable and there exists good animal models for study. Therefore, this book will pull together basic and clinical neuroscience issue in the treatment of specific metabolic encephalopathies.

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Published September, 2008
By Peter Fonagy, Carla Sharp, Ian Goodyer and Ian M. Goodyer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Social cognition refers to the capacity to think about others' thoughts, intentions, feelings, attitudes and perspectives. It has been shown that many children with psychiatric disorders have problems in social cognition. In this book, leaders in the fields of developmental psychopathology examine social cognition across a wide range of disorders.

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Published September, 2008
By Ipke Wachsmuth, Manuela Lenzen, Guenther Knoblich and Gunther Knoblich
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Communication is not just about the transfer of verbal information. Gestures, facial expressions, intonation and body language are all major sources of information during conversation. This book presents a new perspective on communication, one that will help us to better understand humans, and also to build machines that can communicate.

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Published September, 2008
By R. John Leigh, Christopher Kennard and R.John Leigh
Publisher: Elsevier (Elsevier Science Ltd)
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Offers examples of how eye movements can be used to address a broad range of research questions. This book focuses on extraocular muscle, highlighting various concepts of proprioceptive control that involve even the cerebral cortex. It also comprises structural, physiological, pharmacological, and computational aspects of brainstem mechanisms.

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Published August, 2008
By Robert Bridges
Publisher: Elsevier (Academic Press Inc)
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Presents research on the basic neurobiology of parental behavior as it relates to behavioral disorders, including postpartum depression, anxiety, and inadequate parental bonding to infants. This book presents research findings in humans and animals that elucidate the roles of the brain, physiological state, genes and environment.

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Published August, 2008
By Nail Akhmediev and Adrian Ankiewicz
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Lecture Notes in Physics
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The dissipative soliton concept is a fundamental extension of the concept of solitons in conservative and integrable systems. It includes ideas from three major sources, namely standard soliton theory developed since the 1960s; These three sources also correspond to the three component parts of this novel paradigm.

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Published August, 2008
By Jan Koutnik, Vera Kurkova-Pohlova and Roman Neruda
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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The first volume contains papers on mathematical theory of neurocomputing, learning algorithms, kernel methods, statistical learning and ensemble techniques, support vector machines, reinforcement learning, evolutionary computing, hybrid systems, self-organization, control and robotics, signal and time series processing and image processing.

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Published August, 2008
By Jan Koutnik, Vera Kurkova-Pohlova and Vera Kurkova
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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This two volume set LNCS 5163 and LNCS 5164 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN 2008, held in Prague Czech Republic, in September 2008.

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Published August, 2008
By Andrii Rozhok
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The first part of the book describes different sources of navigational information, with their specific navigational mechanisms known or supposed to be employed by animals for navigational goals.

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