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The cognitive and neural sciences have been on the brink of a paradigm shift for over a decade.The traditional information-processing framework in psychology, with its computer metaphor of the mind, is still considered to be the mainstream approach, but...
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Oxford University Press
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2008-06-30
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Foremost neurophysiologists and psychophysicists provide pertinent information on the nature of representation at the earliest stages as this will constrain the disposition of all subsequent processing. This processing is discussed in several different types of visual...
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Wiley
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2008-04-30
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Novartis Foundation Symposia
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This book is a succinct introduction to the orienting of attention. Richard Wright and Lawrence Ward describe the covert orienting literature clearly and concisely, illustrating it with numerous high-quality images, specifically designed to make the challenging...
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Oxford University Press
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2008-04-16
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The Science of Reading: A Handbook brings together state-of-the-art reviews of reading research from leading names in the field, to create a highly authoritative, multidisciplinary overview of contemporary knowledge about reading and related skills. Provides...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
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Wiley Blackwell Handbooks of Developmental Psychology
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Memory and Emotion: Interdisciplinary Perspectives is a collection of original articles that explores cutting-edge research in memory and emotion, discussing findings, methodological techniques, and theoretical advances in one of the fastest-growing areas in psychology....
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
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New Perspectives in Cognitive Psychology
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Minds and Machines: Connectionism and Psychological Modeling examines different kinds of models and investigates some of the basic properties of connectionism in the context of synthetic psychology, including detailed accounts of how the internal structure of...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
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This state-of-the-art handbook provides an authoritative overview of the field of perception, with special emphasis on new developments and trends. Surveys the entire field of perception, including vision, hearing, taste, olfaction, and cutaneous sensibility. Ideal for...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
Collection :
Blackwell Handbooks of Experimental Psychology
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This is the first text on language in communication written from a social psychological perspective that sets issues in their broader biological, sociological and cultural contexts.
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
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Connectionism is a "hands on" introduction to connectionist modeling through practical exercises in different types of connectionist architectures. explores three different types of connectionist architectures – distributed associative memory, perceptron, and...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
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Involuntary memory was identified by the pioneering memory researcher Hermann Ebbinghaus more than a century ago, but it was not until very recently that cognitive psychologists began to study this memory phenomenon. This book is the first to examine key topics and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
Collection :
New Perspectives in Cognitive Psychology
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The first edition of this successful reader brought together key readings in the area of developmental cognitive neuroscience for students. Now updated in order to keep up with this fast moving field, the volume includes new readings illustrating recent developments...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
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As technology has opened new windows into the brain, it has clarified what happens there when people make decisions about money. This clarity has produced a new science called neuroeconomics, which addresses diverse questions, such as why people save, buy stocks, steal,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2008-03-12
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It is now widely recognized that research on human health requires more than a focus on human biology and disease entities. Lifestyles, attitudes, stress, education, income--all are now understood to contribute to the spread of disease, the effectiveness of curative...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2008-03-11
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When we interact with animals, we intuitively read thoughts and feelings into their expressions and actions - it is easy to suppose that they have minds like ours. And as technology grows more sophisticated, we might soon find ourselves interpreting the behaviour of...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-02-28
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Working memory--the ability to keep important information in mind while comprehending, thinking, and acting--varies considerably from person to person and changes dramatically during each person's life. Understanding such individual and developmental differences is...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2008-02-13
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Neuroergnomics can be defined as the study of brain and behavior at work. It combines two disciplines -- neuroscience, the study of brain function, and human factors, the study of how to match technology with the capabilities and limitations of people so they can work...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2008-02-13
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As a manifestation of a 'cognitive turn' observable in all social sciences, Cognitive Economics is concerned with the beliefs and mental operations held by actors placed within a dynamical and strategic environment. It appears as a synthesis of an educative research...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2007-10-25
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