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Executive functions are a set of cognitive processes we use to act on information, manage resources, and plan and monitor our own behaviour, all with the aim of achieving an end goal. These are skills that develop from infancy. While 'reading' has been extensively...
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OUP Oxford
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2021-06-30
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Executive functions are a set of cognitive processes we use to act on information, manage resources, and plan and monitor our own behaviour, all with the aim of achieving an end goal. These are skills that develop from infancy. While 'reading' has been extensively...
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OUP Oxford
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2021-06-30
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Memory is typically thought of as a set of neural representations - 'memory traces' - that must be found and reactivated in order to be experienced. It is often suggested that 'memory traces' are represented by a hierarchically organized system of analyzers, modified,...
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OUP Oxford
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2021-06-10
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Memory is typically thought of as a set of neural representations - 'memory traces' - that must be found and reactivated in order to be experienced. It is often suggested that 'memory traces' are represented by a hierarchically organized system of analyzers, modified,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-06-10
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This book gathers together novel essays on the state-of-the-art research into the logic and practice of abduction. In many ways, abduction has become established and essential to several fields, such as logic, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, philosophy of...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-05-29
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How does your mind work?How does your brain give rise to your mind? These are questions that all of us have wondered about at some point in our lives, if only because everything that we know is experienced in our minds. They are also very hard questions to answer. After...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-05-28
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'THE MOTHERHOOD COMPLEX does for mothers in particular what INVISIBLE WOMEN did for women as a whole: exposes the myriad ways in which the system is stacked against us, while celebrating the strengths and successes we achieve in spite of it all' Leah Hazard'A welcome,...
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Piatkus
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2021-05-27
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How do you know when you've studied enough to pass an exam?Should you accept the testimony of an eyewitness?How do you know when to trust a doctor's orders?The answer is self awareness. Self awareness is humans' greatest superpower. Like the conductor of an orchestra,...
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John Murray
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2021-04-29
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The monograph presents psychological interpretations of the specific reactions of individuals within the perception of attractive human faces. It concentrates on exploring selected attributes of human face that increase its attractiveness. After introducing essential...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2021-04-12
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Im Fokus dieser Arbeit steht der Zusammenhang zwischen der Ausprägung der Self-Compassion (SC), der Zufriedenheit mit der eigenen körperlichen Gesundheit und dem subjektiven Wohlbefinden bei chronischen Erkrankungen. SC wird als Sensibilität für das eigene erlebte...
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Springer
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2021-02-24
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It's time for a story of human evolution that goes beyond describing "ape-men" and talks about what women and children were doing.
In a few decades, a torrent of new evidence and ideas about human evolution has allowed scientists to piece together a more detailed...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-02-19
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'A must read' Philippa Perry'Rich, revelatory and, in the best way, unsettling . . . the mixture of scientific curiosity, bookish thoughtfulness and medical compassion is reminiscent of Oliver Sacks' Sunday Times A twinge of sadness, a rush of love, a knot of loss, a...
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Penguin
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2021-02-04
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This book is a newly revised version of the highly influential text, Rational Emotive Behavioral Approaches to Childhood Disorders: Theory, Practice and Research, based on an earlier volume by Bernard and Ellis. The revised edition incorporates recent significant...
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Springer
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2021-01-04
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This book brings together ideas from experts in cognitive science, mathematics, and mathematics education to discuss these issues and to present research on how mathematics and its learning and teaching are evolving in the Information Age. Given the ever-broadening...
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Springer
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2020-12-10
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The book discusses Franz Brentano’s impact on Austrian philosophy. It contains both a critical reassessment of Brentano’s place in the development of Austrian philosophy at the turn of the 20th century and a reevaluation of the impact and significance of his philosophy...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-12-05
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This book is about computational models of reading, or models that explain (and often simulate) the mental processes that allow us to convert the marks on a printed page into the representations that allow us to understand the contents of what we are reading....
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-12-01
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This book presents a theoretical critical appraisal of the Mechanistic Theory of Human Cognition (MTHC), which is one of the most popular major theories in the contemporary field of cognitive science. It analyses and evaluates whether MTHC provides a unifying account of...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-11-30
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Literary style is something many people talk about, but few could define. Yet it is crucial for our response to narrative art. Style can facilitate or obscure the events of a story or the motivations of a character, enhance the aesthetic appeal of a narrative or...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-11-25
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This book provides a detailed example of an eye-tracking method for comparing the reading experience of a literary source text readers with readers of a translation at stylistically marked points. Drawing on principles, methods and inspiration from fields including...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-23
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A familiar trope of cognitive science, linguistics, and the philosophy of psychology over the past forty or so years has been the idea of the mind as a modular system-that is, one consisting of functionally specialized subsystems responsible for processing different...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-11-20
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