It's a Jungle in There: How Competition and Cooperation in the Brain Shape the Mind

by David A. Rosenbaum

Book Overview

It's a Jungle in There pursues the hypothesis that the overarching theory of biology, Darwin's theory, should be the overarching theory of cognitive psychology. David Rosenbaum, a cognitive psychologist and former editor of the Journal of Experimental Psychology, proposes that the phenomena of cognitive psychology can be understood as emergent interactions among neural elements that compete and cooperate in a kind of inner jungle. This perspective...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190263164
• ISBN13: 9780190263164
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"