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The Human Mind Revealed: A Biological Perspective book cover

1st Edition

The Human Mind Revealed A Biological Perspective

By Michael Sharwood Smith Copyright 2026
190 Pages 17 Color & 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

190 Pages 17 Color & 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

190 Pages 17 Color & 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book provides readers with a new working model of the human mind  based on contemporary trends in cognitive science. Taking a distinct biological approach, the book presents mind and brain as two sides of the same coin while at the same time emphasizing the need for separate accounts.  The reader is introduced step by step to the mind account showing how it operates. The text explores the... Read more

Table of Contents

Preface          

1.  Minding the Brain                                                

2.  Brain and Mind Maps Compared             

3.  The Knowledge Network                         

4.  Reflections of Reality                                                       

5.   Building our Inner World                                    

6.  Activating Knowledge                              

7.  Remembering and Forgetting                                           

8.  Making Meanings                                     

9.  Value and Emotion                                                                       

10. Space and Movement                                          

11. Comparing Species                                                          

12. Conceptualising Consciousness               

13. Different Modes of Awareness                            

14. Communication between Humans                                   

15. Human Language Decoded                                 

16. Concluding Reflections                                       

Bibliographical References                                                   

Short Glossary

Index  

Biography

Michael Sharwood Smith is Emeritus Professor of Languages at Heriot-Watt University in Scotland, UK. His major research interest is cognitive representation, processing and development with special reference to human communication and the language sciences.

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