1st Edition

The Neurophysics of Human Behavior Explorations at the Interface of Brain, Mind, Behavior, and Information

By Mark E. Furman, Fred P. Gallo Copyright 2000

    How do brain, mind, matter, and energy interact? Can we create a comprehensive model of the mind and brain, their interactions, and their influences? Synthesizing research from neuroscience, physics, biology, systems science, information science, psychology, and the cognitive sciences, The Neurophysics of Human Behavior advances a unified theory of brain, mind, behavior and information. This groundbreaking work helps you more deeply understand, more accurately predict, and more effectively change human behavior - a significant contribution to the fields of psychology, education, medicine, communications, and human relations.
    Cognitive neurophysics, as detailed in this work, presents an integrated perspective of brain, mind, behavior, thoughts, and nature. The distinguished authors emphasize the need to view psychological science - and our image of the "self" - in the context of the physical world: matter, energy, and natural laws. NeuroPrint is the powerful application model of this perspective. This comprehensive, detailed algorithm defines the network of interactions that develop brain, mind, behavior, thoughts, and emotions and redefines the meaning of psychotherapeutic intervention.
    The Neurophysics of Human Behavior gives the background, tools, and methods for intervention and modeling. It outlines the systematic, behavioral approach of NeuroPrint, promising to promote a deep understanding of the process of human change. Using The Neurophysics of Human Behavior, practitioners and researchers can plot and gauge the paths of change in neurocognitive dynamics and the improvements in mental health.

    Introduction
    THE STANDARD THEORY: PATTERN-ENTROPY DYNAMICS OF MATTER AND ENERGY INTERACTION
    The Five Missing Pieces: Advances Toward a Unified Science of Neuro-Cognitive Intervention
    The Ubiquity of Pattern in Man and Nature: Exploring the Fundamental Properties of Brain, Mind, Behavior, Information and Change
    Hidden Order and the Origins of Pattern: Thermodynamics, Pattern, and the Human Brain
    Memetics: The Behavior of Information Patterns
    The Life of the Mind: Infogenesis and Information Translation in the Language of Pattern
    NEUROPRINT AND THE STANDARD THEORY OF PATTERN-ENTROPY DYNAMICS
    NeuroPrint -- Purpose and Preliminaries
    Developing a NeuroPrint of Cognitive Neurodynamics
    NeuroPrint Analysis: Understanding Cognitive-Neurodynamics
    Intervention and Change
    Appendix I, Understanding Cognitive-Neurodynamic States, Experiences, and Cognitive Phenomena
    Appendix 2, Submodal Behaviors (Submodalities)
    Appendix 3, Classification and Organization of Intervention Tools and Methods: NLP, Eye Movement Methods, and Energy Psychology
    Appendix 4, NeuroPrint Templates for Data Collection and Organization
    TOOLS FOR INTERVENTION: MODELING, INFLUENCING, AND CHANGING COGNITIVE-NEURODYNAMICS
    I. Preliminary Considerations for Modeling Human Expertise
    The Science and Practice of Human Performance Modeling and Engineering
    2. Performance Modeling and Tools of Intervention
    Neuro-Cognitive Modeling: The Art and Science of Capturing the Invisible
    Foundations of Neuro-Cognitive Modeling: Eye Movement, A Window to the Brain
    3. Information Processing, Representation, Organization, and Destabilization in the Human Brain
    Neocortical Dynamics of Persuasion and Influence
    Submodalities, Cognitive-Neurodynamics, and Change
    Neocortical Dynamics of Metaphor
    The Neurophysics of Hypnosis
    4. Performance Engineering: Tools and Principles of Neurocognitive Pattern Modification
    Life, Death, and Anchoring
    Neurophysics and the Principles of Anchoring
    Neurophysics, Self-Organization, and Anchoring
    Epilogue
    5. Glossary of Neurophysics, Nonlinear Science, and Dynamical Systems Terminology
    Glossary
    Suggested Readings and Resource Guide
    Index

    Biography

    Mark E. Furman, Fred P. Gallo

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