Conversations About Neuroscience

Author : Judith E. Glaser
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351862073
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conversational Intelligence written by Judith E. Glaser and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-10-14 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The key to success in life and business is to become a master at Conversational Intelligence. It's not about how smart you are, but how open you are to learn new and effective powerful conversational rituals that prime the brain for trust, partnership, and mutual success. Conversational Intelligence translates the wealth of new insights coming out of neuroscience from across the globe, and brings the science down to earth so people can understand and apply it in their everyday lives. Author Judith Glaser presents a framework for knowing what kind of conversations trigger the lower, more primitive brain; and what activates higher-level intelligences such as trust, integrity, empathy, and good judgment. Conversational Intelligence makes complex scientific material simple to understand and apply through a wealth of easy to use tools, examples, conversational rituals, and practices for all levels of an organization.

Author : Howard Burton
Publisher : Open Agenda Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1771701064
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conversations About Neuroscience written by Howard Burton and published by Open Agenda Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conversations About Neuroscience include the following five carefully-edited Ideas Roadshow Conversations featuring leading neuroscientists with a detailed preface highlighting the connections between the different books: I. Constructing Our World: The Brain’s-Eye View - A conversation with Lisa Feldman Barrett. This book is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Lisa Feldman Barrett, University Distinguished Professor in Psychology at Northeastern University. This extensive conversations covers topics such as Lisa’s winding career path from pre-med to clinical psychology to an academic career in neuroscience and her research on how the brain works and the development of her theory of emotion: every moment of our life, our brain is anticipating and making sense of sensory inputs from its environment—the combination of the internal environment of the body and the external environment—and our brain uses conceptual knowledge to do that. II. Knowing One’s Place: Space and the Brain - A Conversation with Jennifer Groh. This book is based on an in-depth, filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Jennifer Groh, Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University. After an inspiring story about how she became interested in neuroscience, this extensive conversation examines Jennifer Groh’s extensive research on how the brain combines various streams of sensory input to determine where things are, together with the corresponding implications for a wide range of issues, from neuroplasticity to our predictive brain to evolutionary mechanisms. III. Vision and Perception - A Conversation with Kalanit Grill-Spector. This book is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Kalanit Grill-Spector, Professor in Psychology and the Stanford Neurosciences Institute at Stanford University. Kalanit Grill-Spector’s is a vision specialist with a background in computational neuroscience. Her research examines how the brain processes visual information and perceives it. This extensive conversation explores how functional imaging techniques are used to visualize the brain in action and how it functions to recognize people, objects and places. Kalanit also discusses how the anatomical and functional properties of the brain change from infancy to childhood through adulthood, and how this development is related to improved visual recognition abilities. IV. Investigating Intelligence - A conversation with John Duncan. This book is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and neuroscientist John Duncan, University of Cambridge, and examines fascinating questions in neuroscience such as: What is intelligence and what does IQ testing tell us? Can intelligence be measured and improved? What role does our frontal lobe play in executive control? John Duncan has rigorously investigated these types of issues for years and this conversation covers all those questions plus topics such as impairments following brain damage, functional brain imaging, and the brain basis for attention, intelligence and cognitive control. V. Minds and Machines - A conversation with Miguel Nicolelis. This book is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Miguel Nicolelis, Professor of Neurobiology, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Biomedical Engineering, Psychology and Neuroscience and Orthopaedic Surgery and Co-Director of the Center for Neuroengineering at Duke University. This thought-provoking conversation dives into Miguel Nicolelis’ extensive and important research for over 20 years now and how he has been blurring the line between science fiction and science fact, developing increasingly sophisticated ways of harnessing the thoughts of rats, monkeys and humans to drive mechanical devices in the rapidly emerging field of brain-machine interfaces. As he continues to explore how best to apply this fascinating technology to liberate paralysis victims and Parkinson’s sufferers from their neurological constraints, Nicolelis remains focused on challenging conventional wisdom of what the brain is and how it works, consistently probing the evolving frontier between body and mind. Howard Burton is the creator and host of Ideas Roadshow and was the Founding Executive Director of Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. All the above books are also available for individual purchase. For other books in this series visit Howard Burton's author page or our website (https://ideas-on-film.com/ideasroadshow/).

Author : The Dalai Lama
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 1559394781
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Where Buddhism Meets Neuroscience written by The Dalai Lama and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed as a conversation between the Dalai Lama and Western neuroscientists, this book takes readers on a journey through opposing fields of thought—showing that they may not be so opposing after all Is the mind an ephemeral side effect of the brain’s physical processes? Are there forms of consciousness so subtle that science has not yet identified them? How does consciousness happen? Organized by the Mind and Life Institute, this discussion addresses some of the most troublesome questions that have driven a wedge between Western science and religion. Edited by Zara Houshmand, Robert B. Livingston, and B. Alan Wallace, Where Buddhism Meets Neuroscience is the culmination of meetings between the Dalai Lama and a group of eminent neuroscientists and psychiatrists. The Dalai Lama’s incisive, open-minded approach both challenges and offers inspiration to Western scientists. This book was previously published under the title Consciousness at the Crossroads.

Author : Judith E. Glaser
Publisher : Adams Media
ISBN 13 : 9781598692839
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creating We written by Judith E. Glaser and published by Adams Media. This book was released on 2007-06-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If only they would . . . ! They screwed up, it's their fault! I have my own goals and numbers to meet! If you've heard any of these phrases before, exercise great caution-they have the power to undermine and poison your company! Creating WE, by visionary executive coach Judith E. Glaser, goes to the root of the problem in organizations today, illuminating how "I-centric" work environments cause "unhealthy thinking" to form and doom companies to failure. Whether your company has recently been acquired, merged, restructured, downsized, or, in the midst of rapid growth and expansion, has lost the sense of unity it once had, this revolutionary new book shows you how to create healthy work environments and become a "WE-centric" company that achieves extraordinary breakthrough success. AUTHOR: Judith E. Glaser is an executive and organizational coach and the CEO/president of Benchmark Communications, Inc. Her high-powered client list includes Pfizer; Coach, Inc.; News Corp; Siemens; JP Morgan Chase; Clairol; IBM; Citibank; MSNBC; Verizon; PricewaterhouseCoopers; Lipton; Holiday Inn; Reed Elsevier; Revlon; PepsiCo; Novartis; Liz Claiborne; Donna Karan International; Dreyer's & Edy's; Hallmark Productions; Cendant; VeriSign; WorldTravel BTI; BankBoston; AT&T; NYNEX; Pitney Bowes; Lockheed Martin; Thompson Corporation; MerkMedCo; and Reader's Digest.

Author : Matthieu Ricard
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262536145
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Self written by Matthieu Ricard and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Buddhist monk and esteemed neuroscientist discuss their converging—and diverging—views on the mind and self, consciousness and the unconscious, free will and perception, and more. Buddhism shares with science the task of examining the mind empirically; it has pursued, for two millennia, direct investigation of the mind through penetrating introspection. Neuroscience, on the other hand, relies on third-person knowledge in the form of scientific observation. In this book, Matthieu Ricard, a Buddhist monk trained as a molecular biologist, and Wolf Singer, a distinguished neuroscientist—close friends, continuing an ongoing dialogue—offer their perspectives on the mind, the self, consciousness, the unconscious, free will, epistemology, meditation, and neuroplasticity. Ricard and Singer’s wide-ranging conversation stages an enlightening and engaging encounter between Buddhism’s wealth of experiential findings and neuroscience’s abundance of experimental results. They discuss, among many other things, the difference between rumination and meditation (rumination is the scourge of meditation, but psychotherapy depends on it); the distinction between pure awareness and its contents; the Buddhist idea (or lack of one) of the unconscious and neuroscience’s precise criteria for conscious and unconscious processes; and the commonalities between cognitive behavioral therapy and meditation. Their views diverge (Ricard asserts that the third-person approach will never encounter consciousness as a primary experience) and converge (Singer points out that the neuroscientific understanding of perception as reconstruction is very like the Buddhist all-discriminating wisdom) but both keep their vision trained on understanding fundamental aspects of human life.

Author : Malcolm Jeeves
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830895620
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Minds, Brains, Souls and Gods written by Malcolm Jeeves and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this hypothetical correspondence, Malcolm Jeeves urges Christian students to enter the brave new world of neuroscience ready to have their faith examined and their experiences of God put to the test. When we do this, he argues, being mindful of oversimplifications as we go, the integration of Christianity and psychology becomes possible.

Author : Dean Buonomano
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393247953
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Your Brain Is a Time Machine: The Neuroscience and Physics of Time written by Dean Buonomano and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Beautifully written, eloquently reasoned…Mr. Buonomano takes us off and running on an edifying scientific journey." —Carol Tavris, Wall Street Journal In Your Brain Is a Time Machine, leading neuroscientist Dean Buonomano embarks on an "immensely engaging" exploration of how time works inside the brain (Barbara Kiser, Nature). The human brain, he argues, is a complex system that not only tells time, but creates it; it constructs our sense of chronological movement and enables "mental time travel"—simulations of future and past events. These functions are essential not only to our daily lives but to the evolution of the human race: without the ability to anticipate the future, mankind would never have crafted tools or invented agriculture. This virtuosic work of popular science will lead you to a revelation as strange as it is true: your brain is, at its core, a time machine.

Author : Michael S. Gazzaniga
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 026257117X
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conversations in the Cognitive Neurosciences written by Michael S. Gazzaniga and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Getting a fix on important questions and how to think about them from an experimental point of view is what scientists talk about, sometimes endlessly. It is those conversations that thrill and motivate," observes Michael Gazzaniga. Yet all too often these exciting interactions are lost to students, researchers, and others who are "doing" science.

Author : Antonio Damasio
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1524747564
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Feeling & Knowing written by Antonio Damasio and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of the world’s leading neuroscientists: a succinct, illuminating, wholly engaging investigation of how biology, neuroscience, psychology, and artificial intelligence have given us the tools to unlock the mysteries of human consciousness “One thrilling insight after another ... Damasio has succeeded brilliantly in narrowing the gap between body and mind.” —The New York Times Book Review In recent decades, many philosophers and cognitive scientists have declared the problem of consciousness unsolvable, but Antonio Damasio is convinced that recent findings across multiple scientific disciplines have given us a way to understand consciousness and its significance for human life. In the forty-eight brief chapters of Feeling & Knowing, and in writing that remains faithful to our intuitive sense of what feeling and experiencing are about, Damasio helps us understand why being conscious is not the same as sensing, why nervous systems are essential for the development of feelings, and why feeling opens the way to consciousness writ large. He combines the latest discoveries in various sciences with philosophy and discusses his original research, which has transformed our understanding of the brain and human behavior. Here is an indispensable guide to understand­ing how we experience the world within and around us and find our place in the universe.

Author : Susan J. Blackmore
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195179595
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conversations on Consciousness written by Susan J. Blackmore and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blackmore in this volume brings together some of the great minds of our time, a who's who of eminent thinkers, all of whom have devoted much of their lives to understanding consciousness. Some of the interviewees are major philosophers (such as John Searle, Ned Block, and David Chalmers) and some are equally renowned scientists (Francis Crick, Roger Penrose, V.S. Ramachandran). All of them talk candidly with Blackmore about some of the key philosophical issues confronting us, in a series of conversations that are revealing, insightful, and stimulating.