Category: Psychology & Psychiatry

Our motor skills determine how well we perform in athletics, dance, music, and in carrying out countless daily chores. While our proficiency at performing individual actions and synthesizing them into seamless sequences limits our athletic and artistic talents, we are not perpetually bound by such limitations. The nervous system can acquire new, and modify old, motor behaviors through experience and practice. That is motor learning. The Acquisition of Motor Behavior in Vertebratesprovides a broad, multidisciplinary survey of recent research on the brain systems and mechanisms underlying motor ...
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Why And I ? - A New Thought ON Genetics

By: Esser, Josef

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Dorance & Co.

Seller ID: 38130B36f

ISBN-13: 9780805927160

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

The NeuroPsychology Handbook Volumes I And 2

By: Horton Et All

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Springer Pub.

Seller ID: 39091B15p

ISBN-13: 9780826197306

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

isbn for Volume 2 is 826197310
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Charles Darwin - The Expression Of The Emotions In Man And Animals - Definitive Edition

By: Introduction, Afterword And Commentaries By Paul Ekman

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press : 1998 Originally Published In 1872

Seller ID: 38121B36f

ISBN-13: 9780195112719

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Why do dogs wag their tails and cats purr? Why do we get embarrassed, and why does embarrassment make us blush? Why do we frown when we're disappointed? These any many other questions about the emotional life of humans and animals are answered in this remarkable book. The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals was an immediate best-seller when it was first published in 1872 and still provides the point of departure for research into emotion and facial expression. In his study of infants and children (including delightful observations of his own baby's smiles and pouts), of the insane, o...
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