Michael Corballis

Adventures of a Psychologist

Reflections on What Made Up the Mind

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Adventures of a Psychologist traces the developments in academic psychology across the last 60 years.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 130
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 295g
• ISBN-13: 9780367420536
• ISBN-10: 0367420538
• Artikelnr.: 60022243

Autorenporträt

Michael Corballis was Professor of Psychology at McGill University and the University of Auckland. He has published widely in experimental psychology and cognitive neuroscience. In 2003 he was appointed Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, and in 2016 he received the Rutherford Medal, New Zealand's top scientific award.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Growing Up
2. Floundering at University
3. Hello Psychology
4. O God! O Montreal!
5. Rats and Pigeons
6. Revolutions
7. The Lopsided Brain
8. Doing the Splits
9. Mirrors
10. Gestures, Gestures
11. On Time
12. Chomsky, God, and Language
13. Professional Psychology and its Discontents
14. Anti-science
15. A Brief Reckoning