BIC SubjectsPhysiological & neuro-psychology, biopsychology

How the Brain Got Language – Towards a New Road Map

Edited by Michael A. Arbib

How did humans evolve biologically so that our brains and social interactions could support language processes, and how did cultural evolution lead to the invention of languages (signed as well as spoken)? This book addresses these questions through comparative (neuro)primatology – comparative… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 112] 2020. vii, 393 pp.

Moving Bodies in Interaction – Interacting Bodies in Motion: Intercorporeality, interkinesthesia, and enaction in sports

Edited by Christian Meyer and Ulrich v. Wedelstaedt

This volume presents a new perspective on socially coordinated embodied activity. It brings together scholars from linguistics, interactional sociology, neuropsychology and brain research. It assembles empirical studies of the interaction in sports that draw on recent developments in… read more

[Advances in Interaction Studies, 8] 2017. xv, 361 pp.

The Constitution of Phenomenal Consciousness: Toward a science and theory

Edited by Steven M. Miller

Philosophers of mind have been arguing for decades about the nature of phenomenal consciousness and the relation between brain and mind. More recently, neuroscientists and philosophers of science have entered the discussion. Which neural activities in the brain constitute phenomenal consciousness,… read more

[Advances in Consciousness Research, 92] 2015. viii, 473 pp.

The Constitution of Visual Consciousness: Lessons from Binocular Rivalry

Edited by Steven M. Miller

This volume examines the neuroscience of visual consciousness, drawing on the phenomenon of binocular rivalry. It provides overviews of brain structure and function, the visual system, and neuroscientific methodologies, and then focuses on binocular rivalry from multiple perspectives: historical,… read more

[Advances in Consciousness Research, 90] 2013. ix, 339 pp.