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This work gives a thorough revision of history through a psychological approach to verbal interaction between listeners and speakers.This book offers a large amount of information on the psychology of language and on psycholinguistics, and focuses on a new direction for...
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Springer
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2012-07-09
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Epilepsy is one of the most common disorders of the brain, and these patients often suffer from memory problems. There are a number of reasons for this: seizures can directly affect the brain in ways that disturb memory; epilepsy often results from trouble in brain...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-06-28
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ANOTHER DAY IN THE MONKEY'S BRAIN charts a neuroscientist's journey to understand the central mysteries of consciousness. Dr. Siegel began his career in the neurophysiology of vision in the 1980s, just when the field was coming into focus with the advent of new...
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Oxford University Press
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2012-06-25
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We perceive and understand our environment using many sensory systems-vision, touch, hearing, taste, smell, and proprioception. These multiple sensory modalities not only give us complementary sources of information about the environment but also an understanding that...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-06-21
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'Seeing' happens effortlessly and yet is endlessly complex. One of the most fascinating aspects of visual perception is its stability and constancy. As we shift our gaze or move about the world, the light projected onto the retinas is constantly changing. Yet the...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-06-21
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Learn and apply the 14 core principles of cognitive behavior therapy In this invaluable guide, clinicians will find?identified and summarized by leading researchers and clinicians?fourteen core principles that subsume the more than 400 cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)...
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Wiley
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2012-06-06
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The advent of modern neurobiological methods over the last three decades has provided overwhelming evidence that it is the interaction of genetic factors and the experience of the individual that guides and supports brain development. Brains do not develop normally in...
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Oxford University Press
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2012-05-24
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Leonard Mlodinow, the best-selling author of The Drunkard's Walk and coauthor of The Grand Design (with Stephen Hawking) and War of the Worldviews (with Deepak Chopra) here examines how the unconscious mind shapes our experience of the world, and how, for instance, we...
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Penguin
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2012-05-10
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AS HEARD ON RADIO 4'S DESERT ISLAND DISCS‘Thought-provoking’ Financial Times‘Wonderful … shows how modern psychology is consistent with the best that was thought and known in the Ancient World … beautifully written’ Lord Richard Layard, author of Happiness: Lessons From...
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Ebury Digital
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2012-05-03
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Most of us believe that we possess a self - an internal individual who resides inside our bodies, making decisions, authoring actions and possessing free will. The feeling that a single, unified, enduring self inhabits the body - the 'me' inside me - is compelling and...
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Constable
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2012-04-19
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Unlike any other species, humans can learn and use language. This book explains how the brain evolved to make language possible, through what Michael Arbib calls the Mirror System Hypothesis. Because of mirror neurons, monkeys, chimps, and humans can learn by imitation,...
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Oxford University Press
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2012-04-11
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"More information is always better, and full information is best. More computation is always better, and optimization is best." More-is-better ideals such as these have long shaped our vision of rationality. Yet humans and other animals typically rely on simple...
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Oxford University Press
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2012-04-10
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This book focuses on creative development and empowerment in Marcel Proust’s A la recherche du temps perdu. It demonstrates Proust’s proof of the Romantic notion that art originates in the self of the artist. Approached as a Bildungsroman, the psychological aspects of...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2012-03-27
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Musical Creativities in Practice explores the social and the cultural contexts in which creativity in music occurs. It begins by considering what constitutes creativity - taking a cross cultural view of music, while investigating creative processes far beyond just the...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-03-22
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Our relationship with ads: it's complicated A must-read for anyone intrigued by the role and influence of the ad world, Seducing the Subconscious explores the complexities of our relationship to advertising. Robert Heath uses approaches from experimental psychology and...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2012-03-21
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Thinking and reasoning, long the academic province of philosophy, have over the past century emerged as core topics of empirical investigation and theoretical analysis in the modern fields of cognitive psychology, cognitive science, and cognitive neuroscience. Formerly...
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Oxford University Press
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2012-03-21
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In the past decade, the field of comparative cognition has grown and thrived. No less rigorous than purely behavioristic investigations, examinations of animal intelligence are useful for scientists and psychologists alike in their quest to understand the nature and...
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Oxford University Press
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2012-03-20
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Why do some children take up music, while others dont?Why do some excel, whilst others give up?Why do some children favour classical music, whilst others prefer rock?
These are questions that have puzzled music educators, psychologists, and musicologists for many...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-03-15
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