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Mind shift : how culture transformed the human brain / John Parrington.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Parrington, John, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Brain.
- Consciousness.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (544 pages) : illustrations (black and white)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York State : Oxford University Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- What makes human consciousness unique? John Parrington draws on early Russian ideas and the latest neuroscience to argue that humans went through a 'mind shift' when we developed language, and words and the shared cultural world they enabled altered our brains, and have shaped them ever since.
- Contents:
- Part I: Origins of Mind
- Part II: Mind and Brain
- Part III: The Dynamic Mind
- Part IV: Mind In Trouble
- Part V: The Social Mind
- Part VI: Mind and Culture
- Part VII: The Future of Mind.
- Notes:
- This edition also issued in print: 2021.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-192608-6
- 0-19-252163-2
- 0-19-252164-0
- OCLC:
- 1246576307
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