Foundations of Neural Development is a textbook written with a conversational writing style and topics appropriate for an undergraduate audience. Each chapter begins with a thought-provoking vignette, or a “real-life story,” that the subsequent material illuminates. The “Researchers at Work” feature, available in every chapter, describes a classic study in detail, taking the reader through the hypothesis, test, result, and...

Organized around four well-established core concepts, Principles of Psychology provides students with a framework to understand the science of behavior Written in a conversational style, Principles of Psychology is organized around the following four well-established principles that serve as touchstones for the field of psychology:

1. The mind is a process at work in a physical machine, the brain.
2. We are consciously aware of only a fraction of our ...

Behavioral Neuroscience, Tenth Edition, offers a lively survey of the field. It provides a broad perspective, encompassing cutting-edge neuroscience, lucid descriptions of behavior, evolutionary and developmental perspectives, and clinical applications of research.

Behavioral Neuroscience 10e delivers a comprehensive range of material while clearly and concisely laying bare the neuroscience concepts underlying behavior.

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The Mind’s Machine was introduced in 2012 to impart the core concepts of behavioral neuroscience to students in a diverse range of disciplines, including psychology and the other life sciences, but also art, philosophy, media studies, linguistics, and the like. Using streamlined text, full-color art, novel pedagogical features, and real-life examples and analogies, The Mind's Machine, Fourth Edition engages students new to neuroscience without sa...