The Mind Within the Brain

How We Make Decisions and How those Decisions Go Wrong

A. David Redish (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

392 Seiten

2013
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-989188-7 (ISBN)

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In The Mind within the Brain, David Redish brings together cutting edge research in psychology, robotics, economics, neuroscience, and the new fields of neuroeconomics and computational psychiatry, to offer a unified theory of human decision-making. Most importantly, Redish shows how vulnerabilities, or "failure-modes," in the decision-making system can lead to serious dysfunctions, such as irrational behavior, addictions, problem gambling, and PTSD.

Told with verve and humor in an easily readable style, Redish makes these difficult concepts understandable. Ranging widely from the surprising roles of emotion, habit, and narrative in decision-making, to the larger philosophical questions of how mind and brain are related, what makes us human, the nature of morality, free will, and the conundrum of robotics and consciousness, The Mind within the Brain offers fresh insight into one of the most complex aspects of human behavior.

Department of Neuroscience, University of Minnesota

DECISIONS AND THE BRAIN; THE DECISION-MAKING SYSTEM; THE BRAIN WITH A MIND OF ITS OWN; THE HUMAN CONDITION; EPILOGUE; APPENDIX; BIBLIOGRAPHY

Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 236 mm
Gewicht	658 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10	0-19-989188-5 / 0199891885
ISBN-13	978-0-19-989188-7 / 9780199891887
Zustand	Neuware