Published May, 2006
By Lynette A. Jones and Susan J. Lederman
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
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Although a great deal of research has been conducted on human hand function, there is no coherent presentation of it to guide those seeking to understand its current state. The proposed volume surveys normal hand function in healthy individuals and presents a new conceptual framework for organising and analysing what is known about it.

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Published May, 2006
By Sue Taylor Parker, Robert W Mitchell and Maria L. Boccia
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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This is a collection of original articles on self-awareness in monkeys, apes, humans and other species. This book focuses on controversies about how to measure self-awareness, which species are capable of self-awareness and which are not, and why. The focus of the chapters is both comparative and developmental.

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Published May, 2006
By Harald Sitte and Michael Freissmuth
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology
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With contributions by numerous experts

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Published May, 2006
By I. Homma and S. Shioda
Publisher: Springer (Springer Verlag, Japan)
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This book presents a detailed analysis of current understanding of breathing. The book reviews research on the human brain, focusing on the recently developed EEG/dipole tracing method, as well as animal experiments. The book is a useful reference for researchers in neuroscience and related fields.

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Published May, 2006
By Semyon M. Slobounov and Wayne J. Sebastianelli
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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In summarizing current insights and controversies over concussions in athletics, this book makes the vital point that symptom resolution does not necessarily mean injury resolution.

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Published April, 2006
By Jeremy D. Schmahmann and Deepak N. Pandya
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
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Presents a comprehensive study of the corticocortical and cortisubcortical connections in the cerebral cortex of the rhesus monkey. This text gives readers a detailed understanding of the white matter fiber pathways of the brain. It also provides an in-depth historical background and an atlas of the cerebral white matter.

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Published April, 2006
By Henry C. Tuckwell, C. Cannings, F.C. Hoppensteadt and L. A. Segel
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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The human brain contains billions of nerve cells whose activity plays a critical role in the way we behave, feel, perceive, and think. This two-volume set explains the basic properties of a neuron - an electrically active nerve cell - and develops mathematical theories for the way neurons respond to the various stimuli they receive.

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Published April, 2006
By Jagmeet Kanwal and Gunter Ehret
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Explains how arousal, motivation, emotion and behavioral contexts are vocally expressed and how important sound attributes are recognized and perceived.

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Published April, 2006
By Bruno G. Breitmeyer, Haluk Ogmen and Bruno Breitmeyer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Focusses on the microgenesis of visual form and pattern perception. This edition uses the technique of visual masking to explore temporal aspects of conscious and unconscious processes down to a resolution in the millisecond range. It presents microgenesis within a broad context encompassing visuo-temporal phenomena, attention, and consciousness.

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Published April, 2006
By Shirley A. Bayer and Joseph Altman
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (CRC Press Inc)
Series: Atlas of Human Central Nervous System Development
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Offers information about features of the perinatal brain. This book deals with brain development during the late first trimester (GW11-GW7.5). It contains photographs of the entire brain arranged in companion plates that include two parts: a high resolution black and white photograph and a 'ghost image' of the photograph with unabbreviated labels.

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