Cognitive Adaptation

Jay Schulkin is Research Professor for the Departments of Physiology and Biophysics and Neuroscience at Georgetown University. He is author of numerous texts, including The Neuroendocrine Regulation of Behavior, Roots of Social Sensibility and Neural Function, Bodily Sensibility: Intelligent Action and Allostasis, Homeostasis, and the Costs of Physiological Adaptation.

• 1. Cognitive adaptation: objects and inquiry; 2. The human situation: uncertainty and adaptation; 3. Time and memory: historical sensibilities; 4. Education: learning from others, neurogenesis; 5. Cognitive and neurobiological basis of religious inquiry.

“Professor Jay Schulkin is in a rare class of writers, as at home in the fields of philosophy of mind and cognitive science as he is in the fields of neuroimaging and neuroscience. Here he has produced a wide ranging book that reveals his endless appetite for asking deep and searching questions about the evolution of the mind, and that will stimulate the reader to want to read more about how the mind works.” —Simon Baron-Cohen, Director, Autism Research Centre, Cambridge University