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Music is a tremendously powerful channel through which people develop their personal and social identities.Music is used to communicate emotions, thoughts, political statements, social relationships, and physical expressions. But, just as language can mediate the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2002-07-18
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This is the first major textbook to offer a truly comprehensive review of cognitive science in its fullest sense. Ranging from artificial intelligence models of neural processes and cognitive psychology to recent discursive and cultural theories, Rom Harré offers an...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2002-02-18
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This book examines how Western behavioral science--which has generally focused on negative aspects of human nature--holds up to cross-cultural scrutiny, in particular the Tibetan Buddhist celebration of the human potential for altruism, empathy, and compassion....
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2001-12-06
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This book addresses the central problem of music cognition: how listeners' responses move beyond mere registration of auditory events to include the organization, interpretation, and remembrance of these events in terms of their function in a musical context of pitch...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2001-11-14
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This one-stop guide offers state-of-the-art practical and interpretive guides for the Wechsler Memory Scales, used to interpret intellectual and memory function in dementia patients, substance-abusing patients, and individuals recovering from head trauma, among others.
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2001-10-19
Collection :
Essentials of Psychological Assessment
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Signal detection theory, as developed in electrical engineering and based on statistical decision theory, was first applied to human sensory discrimination about 40 years ago. The theory's intent was to explain how humans discriminate and how we might use reliable...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2001-10-11
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Egon Brunswik is one of the most brilliant, creative and least understood and appreciated psychologists/philosophers of the 20th century. This book presents a collection of Brunswik's most important papers together with interpretive comments by prominent scholars who...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2001-09-20
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The book presents in eight chapters our actual knowledge on memory for actions and it gives room to the proponents of the opposing models to develop their view for explaining action memory. In Chapter one, Hubert Zimmer and Ronald Cohen summarize the results of...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2001-06-28
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Rodin's sculpture "The Thinker" dominates our collective imagination as the purest representation of human inquiry--the lone, stoic thinker. But while the Western belief in individualism romanticizes this perception of the solitary creative process, the reality is that...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2000-11-09
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Why are some people more mentally able than others ? In an authoritative, critical and intergrated series of review essays Professor Ian Deary inquires after the cognitive and biological foundations of human mental ability differences. Many accounts of intelligence have...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2000-09-21
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This volume in the Vancouver Studies in Cognitive Science series concerns metarepresentation: the construction and use of representations that represent other representations. Metarepresentations are ubiquitous among human beings, whenever we think or talk about mental...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2000-08-31
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How was the standard model of the mind developed? Is it adequate? And is there a place in this model for the creative genius of artists, scientists, and mathematicians? This book looks at how scientists investigate the nature of the mind and the brain, providing answers...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2000-06-08
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Is jealousy eliminable? If so, at what cost? What are the connections between pride the sin and the pride insisted on by identity politics? How can one question an individual's understanding of their own happiness or override a society's account of its own rituals? What...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2000-02-10
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Simple Heuristics in a Social World invites readers to discover the simple heuristics that people use to navigate the complexities and surprises of environments populated with others. The social world is a terrain where humans and other animals compete with conspecifics...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
1999-09-30
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An important and captivating book, one that has been long awaited by all researchers interested in language and the brain.' Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 1999.
The Neurocognition of Language brings together experts on human language and the brain to present the first...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
1999-09-02
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This collection focuses on questions that arise when morality is considered from the perspective of recent work on rational choice and evolution. Linking questions like "Is it rational to be moral?" to the evolution of cooperation in "The Prisoners Dilemma," the book...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
1998-10-29
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Despite the recognized importance of cultural diversity in understanding the modern world, the emerging science of cognitive psychology has relied far more on experimental psychology, neurobiology, and computer science than on cultural anthropology for its models of how...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
1998-10-29
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How do children acquire the vast array of concepts, strategies, and skills that distinguish the thinking of infants and toddlers from that of preschoolers, older children, and adolescents? In this new book, Robert Siegler addresses these and other fundamental questions...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
1998-10-29
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Metacognition - cognitive processes that apply to themselves - is becoming increasingly recognized as a fundamental aspect of human psychology. In this broad-ranging book, internationally renowned authors show how a full analysis of human reasoning and behaviour...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
1998-06-09
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Conditioned taste aversion (CTA) is a robust defence device protecting animals against repeated consumption of toxic food. It is characterised by the ability of many animals to learn to avoid certain substances by their sight, smell, or taste after experiencing an...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
1998-05-28
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