Friday's Footprint : How Society Shapes the Human Mind.

Friday's Footprint : How Society Shapes the Human Mind.

Revealing the brain as a social organ, adapted to respond to and process specific social stimuli that are unique to human evolution, Dr Leslie Brothers uses findings from neuroscience, anthropology and palaeontology to make a convincing argument.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brothers, Leslie
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
Subjects:
Cognition > Social aspects.
Cognition and culture.
Human information processing > Social aspects.
Cognition and culture
Cognition > Social aspects
Human information processing > Social aspects
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. A Failure to Connect; 2. Building the Experience of Mind; 3. The Brain's Social Specialization; 4. The Editor Speaks; 5. The Shift to a Social Perspective; 6. Talking Faces; 7. Worlds We Create; 8. In Search of Emotion; 9. Psychoanalytic Performances and Narratives; 10. Exile's End; Notes; References; Index.

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