The Mind's Machine

Foundations of Brain and Behavior

Second Edition

Neil V. Watson and S. Marc Breedlove

Signs and Symptoms: this new feature highlights important clinical issues related to the chapter topics that apply behavioral neuroscience to the study of clinical disorders.
Each chapter begins with a gripping vignette relating the material that follows to a real-life situation.
Visual Summary: a graphic layout helps organize the material, and directs students to the figures that reinforce each point.
Larger, standalone "Parts" of chapters are written discretely to maximize flexibility in assigning readings.
Researchers at Work: important discoveries are explained and illustrated to highlight the process of experimentation and hypothesis testing.
The figures are beautifully drawn to aid students' understanding of biological processes. Concisely labeled and explained, the figures are one of the strongest pedagogical features in the text.
Boxes describe interesting applications, important methods, sidelights, historical perspectives, or refreshers on theoretical concepts.
A Step Further: this feature offers additional, more advanced material for an instructor who wants to make certain topics more challenging or for students who want to know more
"How's it going?" Questions: at the end of each section are review questions to help students organize and rehearse what they've learned from the text.
Photographs show students "real-life" examples of concepts and topics.

The Mind's Machine

Foundations of Brain and Behavior

Second Edition

Neil V. Watson and S. Marc Breedlove

Description

Published by Sinauer Associates, an imprint of Oxford University Press.

The Mind's Machine, introduced in 2012, was written to impart the core concepts of behavioral neuroscience to students in a diverse range of disciplines, including not only psychology and the other life sciences, but art, philosophy, media studies, linguistics, and the like. Through the use of streamlined text, full-color art, novel pedagogical features, and real-life examples and analogies, the book succeeded in engaging students new to neuroscience without sacrificing accuracy.

Put to the test by faculty and students, The Mind's Machine proved itself to be accessible and reader-friendly—not to mention affordably priced—and the Second Edition is no less so.

If you are teaching a brain and behavior, biopsychology, or physiological psychology course, you will want to consider this book!

The Mind's Machine

Foundations of Brain and Behavior

Second Edition

Neil V. Watson and S. Marc Breedlove

1:An Introduction to Brain and Behavior
2:Cells and Structures: The Anatomy of the Nervous System
3:Neurophysiology: The Generation, Transmission, and Integration of Neural Signals
4:The Sensorimotor System
5:Hearing, Balance, Taste, and Smell
6:Vision: From Eye to Brain
7:Hormones and Sex
8:Homeostasis: Active Regulation of the Internal Environment
9:Biological Rhythms and Sleep
10:Emotions, Aggression, and Stress
11:Psychopathology: The Biology of Behavioral Disorders
12:Memory, Learning, and Development
13:Attention and Consciousness
14:Language and Our Divided Brain