{"product_id":"the-new-executive-brain-9780195329407","title":"The New Executive Brain","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eElkhonon Goldberg's groundbreaking The Executive Brain was a classic of scientific writing, revealing how the frontal lobes command the most human parts of the mind. Now he offers a completely new book, providing fresh, iconoclastic ideas about the relationship between the brain and the mind.    In The New Executive Brain, Goldberg paints a sweeping panorama of cutting-edge thinking in cognitive neuroscience and neuropsychology, one that ranges far beyond the frontal lobes. Drawing on the latest discoveries, and developing complex scientific ideas and relating them to real life through many fascinating case studies and anecdotes, the author explores how the brain engages in complex decision-making; how it deals with novelty and ambiguity; and how it addresses moral choices. At every step, Goldberg challenges entrenched assumptions. For example, we know that the left hemisphere of the brain is the seat of language--but Goldberg argues that language may not be the central adaptation of t\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is only nowthat we are beginning to get the full measure of complexity [of the living body], to see how nature and culture interact, and how brain and mind produce each other. There are a handful, a small handful, of remarkable books which address these central problems with great forcethose of Gerald Edelman and Antonio Damasio at once come to mindand to this select number, Elkhonon Goldbergs book, The Executive Brain, should surely be added. * Oliver Sacks, The New York Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003eAnyone who is interested in the workings of the brain, sciences last frontier, will enjoy reading The Executive Brain The authors use of personal narrative and compelling metaphors help to make even the most technical information accessible to the general audience. * Science Editor *\u003cbr\u003eGoldberg is a good example of someone who seems to have always thought out of the box in both his personal and professional life. He has thus written a fine accessible book on executive brain functions One does not have to completely agree with a position to be stimulated by it, and Goldbergs book is certainly stimulating. * Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003eAn intriguing exploration of the most challenging topic in cognitive neuroscience, the executive function of the prefrontal cortex. * American Scientist *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE MANY FACES OF LEADERSHIP; THE EXECUTIVE LOBE; THE MICROSCOPIC VIEW; THE MACROSCOPIC VIEW; THE COMMAND POST AND ITS CONNECTIONS; SOUNDS AND PLAYERS; NOAH'S PREDICAMENT AND THE LANDSCAPES OF THE BRAIN; NEUROPAGANISM: MODULE MADNESS; COGNITIVE GRADIENTS AND COGNITIVE HIERARCHIES; A THING IS A THING; A WORD TO A THING; AUTONOMY AND CONTROL IN THE BRAIN; AGNOSIAS AND HEMISPHERES; EXECUTIVE DEFICIT AND HEMISPHERES; NOVELTY AND THE FRONTAL LOBES; WORKING MEMORY-OR WORKING WITH MEMORY?; FREEDOM OF CHOICE, AMBIGUITY, AND THE FRONTAL LOBES; NEUROEVERYTHING; THE NEUROPSYCHOLOGY OF INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES; MALE AND FEMALE COGNITIVE STYLES; FRONTAL LOBES, HEMISPHERES, AND COGNITIVE STYLES; COGNITIVE STYLES AND BRAIN WRITING; REBELS IN SMALL PROPORTION: HANDEDNESS AND NOVELTY SEEKING; EXECUTIVE TALENTS: THE S FACTOR AND THE THEORY OF MIND; THE FRAGILE FRONTAL LOBES; FRONTAL LOBE SYNDROMES; DRIVE AND NEWTONIAN BODIES: A DORSOLATERAL CASE STUDY; PLANS AND THE \"MEMORIES OF THE FUTURE\"; RIGIDITY OF MIND; MIND BLINDSPOT: ANOSOGNOSIA; ORBITOFRONTAL \"PSEUDOPSYCHOPATHIC\" SYNDROME AND THE LOSS OF SELF-CONTROL; SOCIAL MATURITY AND THE FRONTAL LOBES; BIOLOGICAL MATURATION AND SOCIAL MATURITY: A HISTORICAL PUZZLE; FRONTAL LOBE DAMAGE AND CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR; THE HAPLESS ROBBER; FRONTAL LOBE DAMAGE AND THE PUBLIC BLINDSPOT; THE FALLEN HORSEMAN: A CASE STUDY; SCHIZOPHRENIA: A CONNECTION THAT WAS NEVER MADE; HEAD TRAUMA: A BROKEN CONNECTION; ATTENTION DEFICIT\/HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER: A FRAGILE CONNECTION; ADHD CONQUERED: HOW TOBY FROM DOWN UNDER RECLAIMED HIMSELF; JERKY TIES AND TICKY JOKES; THE CORTEX AND THE STRIATUM; \"COGNOTROPIC\" DRUGS; JOGGING THE BRAIN; HISTORY OF COGNITIVE REHABILITATION; BRAIN PLASTICITY AND COGNITIVE EXERCISE; COGNITIVE FITNESS: BEGINNING OF A TREND; BEGINNINGS OF A PROGRAM; AUTONOMY AND CONTROL IN THE BRAIN; AUTONOMY AND CONTROL IN SOCIETY; AUTONOMY AND CONTROL IN THE DIGITAL WORLD","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51862464135511,"sku":"9780195329407","price":25.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780195329407.jpg?v=1759917875","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-new-executive-brain-9780195329407","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}