Whether you are looking for a text that has a comprehensive or condensed approach to content, Oxford University Press is proud to offer the leading franchise for biological psychology!

Pair with Oxford Insight for curated media resources, activities, and gradable assessment in a guided learning environment to drive student engagement and improve outcomes.

• Accessible writing style

• 15 chapters

• Majors/non-majors or allied health programs

• Foundational

• Authoritative writing style

• 19 chapters

• Comprehensive

• Research focus

Oxford Insight 2.0 integrates Oxford University Press' leading content for The Mind's Machine and Behavioral Neuroscience with curated media, activities, and gradable assessment in a guided learning environment.

Empower your students to learn more effectively with engaging resources and clear progress feedback, while keeping track of their performance with ease through the gradebook's actionable insights.

The Dashboard features a Learning Gauge that breaks down course enrollment by score and shows an average score for all students. This gives a visual to see how the students are doing, and how many are on track to pass the course.

Courses are organized into sections that map to clear learning objectives. Each section includes the e-book, relevant media resources, formative activities, and practice self-assessment

Oxford Insight is designed to fit how you choose to teach your course. You can delete or rearrange entire chapters, sections within chapters, or activities/assessments within the sections. You can also add your own content within the chapters, the sections, and/or the assessments.

Animations illustrate dynamic processes and show examples of interesting phenomena

Activities help students learn and understand complex concepts and anatomical (and other) terms.

The Visual Summaries in The Mind's Machine helps students organize the material and directs them to figures that reinforce each point.

Neil V. Watson received his undergraduate and master's degrees from the University of Western Ontario and his Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia. His research has appeared in a variety of journals, including the Journal of Neuroscience, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, and Brain Research. Dr. Watson's research on hormones and social behaviors has been funded for 30 years by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.

Dr. Watson is now a Professor of Behavioral Neuroscience and former Chair of Psychology at Simon Fraser University where he teaches biological psychology to hundreds of undergraduate and graduate students each year.

S. Marc Breedlove has written over 160 scientific articles investigating the role of hormones in shaping the developing and adult nervous system, publishing in journals including Science, Nature, Nature Neuroscience, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. and Psychological Science, which have been cited over 10,000 times in the scientific literature.

The Rosenberg Chair of Neuroscience, Dr. Breedlove is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Association for Psychological Science.

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