The Englishman: Memoirs of a Psychobiologist - Couverture souple

Staddon, John

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1908684666 ISBN 13 : 9781908684660

Editeur : The University of Buckingham Press, 2016

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

"Although I have been basically an academic for most of my life, the way I got there has taken some surprising turns. The first four chapters of this memoir describe what I can remember and discover about my early life: an unsuspected ancestry, fun in WW2 London, comical schooldays, and a spell in colonial Africa interrupting a wobbly college career at the end of which I left England for America. In the US I followed again a slightly erratic graduate-school trajectory that ended up in a Harvard basement."

This is not just a witty transatlantic autobiography from a talented English working-class kid who made his name in the USA but also a learned and entertaining romp through the subject he has made his own. Growing up in a modest odd family out in wartime England, and with a natural resistance to regimentation, John Staddon was the precocious self-driven polymath who first studied chemical engineering but switched to psychology because there were only four or five classes a week. By way of his wide-ranging interests in biology, artificial intelligence, economics, philosophy and behavioural neuroscience, John Staddon introduces his important work on how animals learn. He discusses the still relatively new and exciting field of behavioural psychobiology, explains theoretical research on choice and interval timing and debates so-called superstition in the learned behaviour of pigeons, rats, fish - and people. Here is a most entertaining life story interwoven with expansive thoughts across the marvellously wide spectrum of behavioural psychology.

Biographie de l'auteur

John Staddon is a James B. Duke Professor of Psychology, and Professor of Biology and Neurobiology, Emeritus, at Duke University. He has worked in many universities around the world, including MIT, Oxford, and the University of Toronto. He is the author of "The New Behaviorism" (2014) and "Adaptive Behavior and Learning" (2016), among other books.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The University of Buckingham Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1908684666
• ISBN 13: 9781908684660
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
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• Personne responsable: non disponible