Front Cover -- Consciousness and Cognition -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. How Did Modern Human Cognition Evolve? -- Our large brain: does size matter? -- Tools, decoration and art -- Where did modern human consciousness come from? -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2. Taking Up Arms -- Thinking big -- The question of language -- Language is a hand-me-down! -- Convincing myself -- Book for sale -- Objections -- When did autonomous speech emerge? -- Not with a bang, but with a whimper -- Chapter 3. Celebrating 300 Million Years of the Mind: A Bird's Eye View -- What do we mean by 'the mind'? -- Flying without frontal lobes -- What is intelligence, and how can this be measured in birds? -- Birds, like humans, learn from careful observation -- How is this possible with so little neocortical tissue? -- From stories to controlled experiments -- Talking with Alex -- Bird play -- If my bird looks happy, is she really happy? -- Anthropomorphism -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4. Was Medieval Cell Doctrine More Modern Than We Thought? -- A brief historical sketch - the standard view -- New version - it was in the brain all along -- Early studies of patients with brain damage -- A little Latin to help sort out the puzzle -- Information flow - making the model dynamic -- The brain's control of movement -- A summary and outline -- Chapter 5. Can Evolution Produce Robots? -- Artificial intelligence -- How does artificial evolution work? -- How artificial neurons work -- How to get robots to behave -- What artificial neural nets can do -- A useful application: getting rid of trash -- Learning and evolution -- What is the current state of things? -- Of what importance is evolutionary robotics? -- Future visions -- Chapter 6. The Thought-Translation Device -- Using brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) to translate thoughts into action.

Communicating with slow cortical potentials -- The origin of slow cortical potentials in the human brain -- The TTD in a nutshell -- Setting up and using the TTD -- How the language support program works -- The training procedure -- The training of patient E.M. -- TTD - visions for the future -- Chapter 7. Babes in Arms: Studies in Laterality -- The left side rules -- A bias rediscovered -- Is the bias just a matter of handedness? -- Some things to know about handedness -- What handedness could explain about the holding-side bias -- Problems for a handedness explanation -- Is the bias a matter of posture? -- What's the difference between babies and books? -- Types of holds and their functions -- States of 'action-approach' -- The anatomy of emotion -- Emotions, attention, and side of holding -- Can the attention hypothesis account for other details of the holding-side bias? -- An exception to the left-side rule -- Why don't left-hand prohibitions decrease left-side holding? -- In Sum -- Chapter 8. Why a Creative Brain? Evolutionary Setups for Off-Line Planning of Coherent Stages -- Creativity is an evolutionary newcomer -- Creativity for language instead? -- When an advance plan is needed -- Innovation during get-set -- The Darwinian process -- Speeding up the Darwinian process -- New uses for old things -- Long sentences and coherence -- Creating new levels of organization -- Chapter 9. Creativity: Method or Magic? -- What is not creative? -- Creative trait or creative state? -- Underlying mechanisms -- Conclusions -- Chapter 10. The Cross-Cultural Brain -- Alexithymia -- The laterality hypothesis of alexithymia -- A 'flashy' way to do experiments -- The experiments -- An invitation to participate in our online experiments -- Chapter 11. Where's the Missing Body? A Puzzle for Cognitive Science -- Act I -- Act II -- Act III -- Act IV.

Chapter 12. Whose Free Will is it Anyway? or, The Illusion of Determinism -- Is free will more than a feeling? -- Neuroscience, neural reductionism and determinism -- The implications of reductionism and determinism for society and psychology -- Psychology and materialism of the mind -- Modern neuroscience and non-determinism: radical changes of the late twentieth century -- The crux of the free-will debate: is brain activity predictable? -- Future perspectives -- Chapter 13. Affective Neuroscience and the Ancestral Sources of Human Feelings -- Some personal lessons and LESSNS about the evolved nature of emotions -- Archaeology of mind: the affective sources of consciousness -- Five distinctions between affective consciousness and cognitive consciousness -- The emotional underpinnings of human nature - toward a neuroevolutionary psychobiology -- Learning in emotional systems and more on the pervasive emotion-cognition interactions -- Development of new psychiatric medications -- Mind views: emotional states and cognitive information processing -- In sum -- Chapter 14. The Funny Meat Behind Our Eyes -- Humor and laughter for fun and (maybe) health -- Humor and laughter from a biological perspective -- The functional cognitive anatomy of a joke -- Where do we go from here? -- Chapter 15. Practicing Safe Stress: A Selective Overview of the Neuroscience Research -- Stress and stressors -- Acute stress and memory -- Chronic stress, brain structure, and function -- Stress and mental health -- How stress sculpts the developing brain -- Gender, stress, and the brain -- Coping with stress -- Chapter 16. Petrol Sniffing, the Brain, and Aboriginal culture: Between Sorcery and Neuroscience -- Petrol sniffing -- Aboriginal culture -- Neuroscience -- Both ways -- Conclusion -- Chapter 17. Chatting with Noam Chomsky -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H.

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