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Perceptual organization comprises a wide range of processes such as perceptual grouping, figure-ground organization, filling-in, completion, perceptual switching, etc. Such processes are most notable in the context of shape perception but they also play a role in...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-08-21
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Writing is one of humankind's greatest inventions, and modern societies could not function if their citizens could not read and write. How do skilled readers pick up meaning from markings on a page so quickly, and how do children learn to do so? The chapters in the...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-07-21
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Vision and the Visual System offers students, teachers, and researchers a rigorous, yet accessible account of how the brain analyzes the visual scene. Schiller and Tehovnik describe key aspects of visual perception while explaining the relationship between eye movements...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-07-17
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An "excellent work of popular science" (New Republic) by a New York Times-bestselling author that unites history and science to reveal how the mind does language In Words and Rules, Steven Pinker explores profound mysteries of language by picking a deceptively...
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Basic Books
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2015-07-14
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What are the grounds for the distinction between the mental and the physical?What is it the relation between ascribing mental states to an organism and understanding its behavior? Are animals and complex systems vehicles of inner evolutionary environments? Is there a...
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Springer
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2015-07-10
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This interdisciplinary new work explores one of the central theoretical problems in linguistics: learnability. The authors, from different backgrounds---linguistics, philosophy, computer science, psychology and cognitive science-explore the idea that language...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-07-09
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This interdisciplinary new work explores one of the central theoretical problems in linguistics: learnability. The authors, from different backgrounds---linguistics, philosophy, computer science, psychology and cognitive science-explore the idea that language...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-07-09
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Human brains can be seen as knowledge processors in a distributed system. Each of them can achieve, conscious or not, a small part of a treatment too important to be done by one. These are also "hunter / gatherers" of knowledge. Provided that the number of contributors...
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Wiley-ISTE
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2015-06-29
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Humans have engaged in artistic and aesthetic activities since the appearance of our species. Our ancestors have decorated their bodies, tools, and utensils for over 100,000 years. The expression of meaning using color, line, sound, rhythm, or movement, among other...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-06-25
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Conditional reasoning is reasoning that involves statements of the sort If A (Antecedent) then C (Consequent). This type of reasoning is ubiquitous; everyone engages in it. Indeed, the ability to do so may be considered a defining human characteristic. Without this...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-06-12
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Le geste ne peut être considéré en lui-même et pour lui-même qu’en se plaçant dans une perspective restrictive. En effet, le mouvement volontaire s’inscrit dans une action, et dans tous les cas, il est tributaire d’un contexte.Le mouvement est bien ce qui permet...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-05-31
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Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 4th Edition, is a revised and updated edition of the landmark text focusing on the development of brain and behaviour during infancy, childhood, and adolescence. Offers a comprehensive introduction to all issues relating to the...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2015-04-24
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The complexities of the brain and nervous system make neuroscience an inherently interdisciplinary pursuit, one that comprises disparate basic, clinical, and applied disciplines. Behavioral neuroscientists approach the brain and nervous system as instruments of...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-04-15
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How do we appreciate a work of art? Why do we like some artworks but not others? Is there no accounting for taste? Awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to explore connections between art, mind, and brain, Shimamura considers how we experience art. In a thoughtful and...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-04-15
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The book questions two key dichotomies: that of the apparent and real, and that of the internal and external. This leads to revised notions of the structure of experience and the object of knowledge. Our world is experienced as possibilities of action, and to know is to...
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Springer
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2015-04-11
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Where do great ideas come from?What actually happens in your brain during a ‘Eureka’ moment?How can we have more of them?John Kounios and Mark Beeman, leading experts on the neural bases of insight and creative thinking, have conducted pioneering neuroimaging research...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2015-04-09
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This pioneering volume brings a rarely-studied population--wives and girlfriends of men who molest children--into the clear focus necessary to understand the dynamics of these disturbed families. Details of the study spotlight interview methodology, format, structure,...
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Springer
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2015-03-31
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The past few decades have seen a huge increase in global interest in psychology, with more psychologists, psychology programmes and students than ever before. Culture and Cognition: A collection of critical essays is made up of chapters written by experts in each topic,...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-03-26
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Die Autoren befassen sich mit Informationsstruktur, die zunächst pragmatische Funktionsbereiche wie Topic (Thema), Fokus (der Aufmerksamkeit) und die Unterscheidung von zugänglicher vs. neuer Information meint. Genereller geht es ihnen um eine kommunikativ effiziente...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-03-26
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The past two decades have seen a surge of interest in the topic of consciousness, with the result that the research literature has expanded greatly. However, until now, there has been little consensus on just which methods are the most effective for the study of...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-03-26
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