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Evolution of Learning and Memory Mechanisms
This book examines how evolution influences learning and memory processes in both human and nonhuman animals.
A Brain for Innovation
What sets humans apart from other animals? Perhaps more than anything else, it is the capacity for innovation. The accumulation of discoveries throughout history, big and small, has enabled us to build global civilizations and gain power to shape our environment. But what makes humans as a species so innovative? Min W. Jung offers a new understanding of the neural basis of innovation in terms of humans’ exceptional capacity for imagination and high-level abstraction. He provides an engaging account of recent advances in neuroscience that have shed light on the neural underpinnings of these profoundly important abilities. Jung examines key discoveries concerning the hippocampus and neural c...
Psychology and Covid-19 in the Americas
This book is the second of two volumes that bring together the works presented at the congress "Contributions of Psychology to COVID-19", organized by the Interamerican Society of Psychology in 2020. This was one of the first virtual international meetings on psychology and COVID-19 in the world and brought together researchers and professionals from South, Central and North America in a single online event. The content of both volumes includes many of the first issues addressed by researchers, scholars, and practitioners across the Americas at the start of the pandemic – before vaccines, before knowledge of treatment and impact, before our worlds and daily lives were forever changed. Chap...
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Psicología comparada
La psicología comparada es una disciplina que estudia la conducta humana y sus mecanismos, con diversas especies animales. Trata de comprender la evolución filogenética de los comportamientos, desde las especies más sencillas hasta las más complejas. El ejemplo más claro, cercano y conocido sobre ésta, es el estudio con simios, por ser la especie evolutivamente más cercana al ser humano; aunque no podemos decir que sea el principal, pues muchos otros animales domésticos o de fácil crianza y acceso (como gatos, perros, ratones, entre otros) han aportado interesantes ideas a los psicólogos, contribuyendo así al avance de esta disciplina. Es un libro escrito para estudiantes de la c...
The Palgrave Biographical Encyclopedia of Psychology in Latin America
This biographical encyclopedia will provide the first comprehensive reference work on leading scholars and professionals who have contributed to the development and institutionalization of psychology in Latin America. The figures biographed will include scholars who have made a significant theoretical contribution to the discipline, as well as, practitioners and those who have contributed to the institutionalization of psychology, through their work in scientific organisations, professional bodies and publications. All persons included are recognized authorities and either natives of, or long-term residents in the region. It will offer an invaluable reference point, in particular for scholars of the history of psychology, Latin American studies, the history of science, and global psychology; as well as for historians, psychologists and social scientists seeking international perspectives on the development of the discipline.
