We like to think of ourselves, our friends, and our families as decent people. We may not be saints, but we are still honest, relatively kind, and mostly trustworthy. Miller argues here that we are badly mistaken in thinking this. Hundreds of recent studies in psychology tell a different story: that we all have serious character flaws that prevent us from being as good as we think we are - and that we do not even recognize that these flaws exist. But neither are most of us cruel or dishonest...
Carl Stumpfs Berliner Phonogrammarchiv (Schriftenreihe Der Carl Stumpf Gesellschaft, #6)
Der Band versammelt Vortrage, die auf der 4. Jahrestagung der Carl-Stumpf-Gesellschaft gehalten wurden. Die Tagung fand im Ethnologischen Museum Berlin und dort an dem von Carl Stumpf 1900 gegrundeten Phonogrammarchiv statt. Dementsprechend behandeln die meisten Beitrage Forschungen der Musikethnologie aus unterschiedlichen erkenntnistheoretischen Perspektiven. Der Band prasentiert sowohl aktuelle Arbeiten als auch Untersuchungen, die an die Forschungen von Stumpf oder seinen Schulern anknupfen...
Actions have consequences--and the ability to learn from them revolutionized life on earth. While it's easy enough to see that consequences are important (where would we be without positive reinforcement?), few have heard there's a science of consequences, with principles that affect us every day. Despite their variety, consequences appear to follow a common set of scientific principles and share some similar effects in the brain--such as the "pleasure centers." Nature and nurture always work...
The New Phrenology (Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psychology)
by William R Uttal
William Uttal is concerned that in an effort to prove itself a hard science, psychology may have thrown away one of its most important methodological tools—a critical analysis of the fundamental assumptions that underlie day-to-day empirical research. In this book Uttal addresses the question of localization: whether psychological processes can be defined and isolated in a way that permits them to be associated with particular brain regions. New, noninvasive imaging technologies allow us to obse...
Perception of Form and Forms of Perception
by R M Granovskaya, I J Bereznaya, and Alla N Grigorieva
First Published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Cognitive Neuroscience of Consciousness: A Special Issue of Cognitive Neuroscience
Effects of Interpersonal Relationships on Shared Reminiscence
by Candice E. Condon
You rely on your memories for who you are as a person, where you have been, and what you have experienced in your life to date. But, what if it turned out that these memories that you hold closely aren’t your memories at all? What if they were someone else’s memories?This book documents the results of a research project investigating the effects of interpersonal relationship factors on shared reminiscence. Although memory and the factors that influence it have been researched more in recent year...
It has been postulated that humans can differentiate between millions of gradations in color. Not surprisingly, no completely adequate, detailed catalog of colors has yet been devised, however the quest to understand, record, and depict color is as old as the quest to understand the fundamentals of the physical world and the nature of human consciousness. Rolf Kuehni's Color Space and Its Divisions: Color Order from Antiquity to the Present represents an ambitious and unprecedented history of ma...
Bio-Intelligence Science
Today, it is considered that intelligence includes at least two skills: the ability to memorize and store knowledge, and the ability to process knowledge. The person (or machine) without any knowledge cannot be considered intelligent. The ability of learning - acquisition of new knowledge, is also one of the aspects of the intelligence, although we can classify it as an ability to solve problems. As an “intelligent feature” we can also consider the ability to communicate with other intelligent b...