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Big brain/ the origins and future of human intelligence Gary Lynch, Richard Granger and Cheryl A Cotman

By: Lynch, GaryContributor(s): Granger, Richard | Cotman, Cheryl AMaterial type: Text

TextPublication details: New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008Edition: 1st edDescription: 259 pISBN: 9781403979780Subject(s): Brain -- Evolution | Neurosciences | IntellectDDC classification: 612.82

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Big brains, bigger brains : Introduction ; Biggest brain ; Are bigger brains better? ; Brain and language ; Were Boskops smarter? ; Why haven't we all heard of Boskops? ; Outline of the book -- The mind in the machine : Learning network codes ; Brain circuits vs. computer circuits ; The brain of John Von Neumann -- Genes build brains : How much variation can occur? ; Blueprint systems ; Bundling genes ; Variation is random, but it is constrained -- Brains arrive : First brains ; Brain expansion -- The brains of mammals : Neurons and networks ; Learning -- From olfaction to cognition : From cortex to behavior ; Neocortex -- The thinking brain : Extending thinking over time ; The cortex takes charge -- The tools of thought : Feed back and hierarchies of cortical circuits -- Sequences ; What one brain area tells another brain area ; What's in an image? ; Putting it together: from generalists to specialists ; Memory construction ; Building high-level cognition ; Libraries and labyrinths ; Grammars of the brain -- From brain differences to individual differences : Brain paths ; Brain tracts and differential abilities ; Nature and nurture -- What's in a species? : Definitions ; Fallacies of the notion of race ; Races versus gene pools -- The origins of big brains : Brain size in the primates ; Brain size in the family of man ; Big babies ; On intelligence -- Giant brains : The man of the future ; How giant brains were forgotten ; Inside the giant brain ; Giant brains and intelligence -- All but human : On science ; Differences ; From quantity to quality ; From brain advances to cognitive advances ; From cognition to language ; Learning curve ; From speaking to writing --

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General Books	Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section	612.82 LYN/B (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		P15186

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Big brains, bigger brains : Introduction ; Biggest brain ; Are bigger brains better? ; Brain and language ; Were Boskops smarter? ; Why haven't we all heard of Boskops? ; Outline of the book --
The mind in the machine : Learning network codes ; Brain circuits vs. computer circuits ; The brain of John Von Neumann --
Genes build brains : How much variation can occur? ; Blueprint systems ; Bundling genes ; Variation is random, but it is constrained --
Brains arrive : First brains ; Brain expansion --
The brains of mammals : Neurons and networks ; Learning --
From olfaction to cognition : From cortex to behavior ; Neocortex --
The thinking brain : Extending thinking over time ; The cortex takes charge --
The tools of thought : Feed back and hierarchies of cortical circuits --
Sequences ; What one brain area tells another brain area ; What's in an image? ; Putting it together: from generalists to specialists ; Memory construction ; Building high-level cognition ; Libraries and labyrinths ; Grammars of the brain --
From brain differences to individual differences : Brain paths ; Brain tracts and differential abilities ; Nature and nurture --
What's in a species? : Definitions ; Fallacies of the notion of race ; Races versus gene pools --
The origins of big brains : Brain size in the primates ; Brain size in the family of man ; Big babies ; On intelligence --
Giant brains : The man of the future ; How giant brains were forgotten ; Inside the giant brain ; Giant brains and intelligence --
All but human : On science ; Differences ; From quantity to quality ; From brain advances to cognitive advances ; From cognition to language ; Learning curve ; From speaking to writing --

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