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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459415003321

Titolo

Methods in social neuroscience [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Eddie Harmon-Jones, Jennifer S. Beer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Guilford Press, c2009

ISBN

1-282-48995-X

9786612489952

1-60623-099-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (370 p.)

Classificazione

77.50

Altri autori (Persone)

Harmon-JonesEddie

BeerJennifer S. <1974->

Disciplina

612.8/2

Soggetti

Neuropsychology

Social psychology

Personality and cognition

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction to methods in social and personality neuroscience methods / Eddie Harmon-Jones & Jennifer S. Beer -- Collaborations in social and personality neuroscience / Cindy Harmon-Jones, Jennifer S. Beer, & Eddie Harmon-Jones -- Assessment of salivary hormones / Oliver C. Schultheiss & Steven J. Stanton -- Neuroendocrine manipulation of the sexually dimorphic human social brain / Jack van Honk -- Facial EMG / Ursula Hess -- The startle eyeblink response / Terry D. Blumenthal & Joseph C. Franklin -- Assessing autonomic nervous system activity / Wendy Berry Mendes -- Patient methodologies for the study of personality and social processes / Jennifer S. Beer -- Electroencephalographic methods in social psychological research: a brief review and tutorial / Eddie Harmon-Jones & Carly K. Peterson -- Using event-related brain potentials in social psychological research : a brief review and tutorial / Bruce D. Bartholow & David M. Amodio -- Transcranial magnetic stimulation / Dennis J.L.G. Schutter -- Using connectionist networks to understand neurobiological processes in social and personality psychology /



Stephen J. Read & Brian M. Monroe -- Molecular biology and genomic imaging in social and personality psychology / Turhan Canli -- Functional magnetic resonance imaging in the affective and social neurosciences / Tom Johnstone, M. Justin Kim, & Paul J. Whalen.

Sommario/riassunto

Straightforward and practical, this is the first book to provide detailed guidance for using neurobiological methods in the study of human social behavior, personality, and affect. Each chapter clearly introduces the method at hand, provides examples of the method's applications, discusses its strengths and limitations, and reviews concrete experimental design considerations. Written by acknowledged experts, chapters cover neuroimaging techniques, genetic measurement, hormonal methods, lesion studies, startle eyeblink responses, facial electromyography, autonomic

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910965326003321

Autore

Brienen Rebecca Parker

Titolo

Visions of savage paradise : Albert Eckhout, court painter in colonial Dutch Brazil / / Rebecca Parker Brienen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, : Amsterdam University Press, 2006

ISBN

1-003-70916-8

1-04-077829-1

1-04-078343-0

1-280-95845-6

9786610958450

90-485-0554-2

1-4294-5469-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource  (288 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Classificazione

21.02

Disciplina

759.9492.E26

Soggetti

Indians in art

Brazil In art

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 266-278) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Albert Eckhout



(ca. 1607-1665/6): Portrait and Still-life Painter at Johan Maurits's Brazilian Court; 2 'To Reproduce Nature Itself as Perfectly as Possible': The Brazilian Natural History Drawings of Albert Eckhout; 3 Cannibalizing America: From the Ethnographic Impulse to the Ethnographic Portrait; 4 Between the Savage and the Civilized: Eckhout's Brasilianen and Tapuyas; 5 Black, Brown, and Yellow: Eckhout's Paintings of Africans, Mestizos, and Mulattos; 6 Eckhout's Paintings: Location and Interpretation; Conclusion; Colour Plates

Appendix A: Chronological Overview of Albert Eckhout's Life; Appendix B: Works of Art by Albert Eckhout; Notes; Bibliography; Index of Names; General Index; List of Illustrations

Sommario/riassunto

The first major book-length study of the Dutch artist Albert Eckhout examining his fascinating works of art