Governing Behavior : How Nerve Cell Dictatorships and Democracies Control Everything We Do / Ari Berkowitz.
Berkowitz, Ari, author.
2016
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Title Governing Behavior : How Nerve Cell Dictatorships and Democracies Control Everything We Do / Ari Berkowitz.
Author Berkowitz, Ari, author.
ISBN 9780674545939
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674545939
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2016]
Copyright ©2016
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (240 p.) : 9 color illustrations, 21 halftones, 18 line illustrations
Other Standard Identifiers 10.4159/9780674545939 doi
Dewey Decimal Classification 612.81046
Summary From simple reflexes to complex movements, all animal behavior is governed by a nervous system. But what kind of government is it-a dictatorship or a democracy? Ari Berkowitz explains the variety of structures and strategies that control behavior, while providing an overview of thought-provoking debates and cutting-edge research.
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Source of Description Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)
In EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2016
EBOOK PACKAGE Medicine and Life Sciences 2016
Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
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Frontmatter
Contents
1. How to Spy on the Government
2. Isn't Th ere an Easier Way?
3. Neuronal Dictatorships
4. Neuronal Democracies
5. How Are the Factories Run?
6. The Plot (and the Chemical Soup) Thickens
7. Government Surveillance
8. Government Self-Monitoring
9. Becoming a Political Animal
10. Governing Behavior
Notes
Credits
Acknowledgments
Index

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