Synchcronicity was first defined by Jung as a simultaneous occurence of events which were linked, but couldn't be explained by the usual laws of cause and effect. When two or more events come together at a significant time in your life they often seem to have significance, although you might not be able to explain why. Maybe there is a change in the psychic energy at that moment that allows you to connect with the flow. As long as you are open to the idea that events have significance you can ex...
This book presents a detailed argument to support the view that religion as a cultural practice cannot be properly explained without knowledge of the evolved cognitive mechanisms by which humans process information. This publication has also been published in paperback, please click here for details.
Perceptual Modification (Computer Science and Scientific Computing)
by Robert B Welch
Neurocomputing (A Bradford Book)
by James A. Anderson and Andras Pellionisz
In bringing together seminal articles on the foundations of research, the first volume of "Neurocomputing has become an established guide to the background of concepts employed in this burgeoning field. "Neurocomputing 2 collects thirty-nine articles covering network architecture, neurobiological computation, statistics and pattern classification, and problems and applications, that suggest important directions for the evolution of neurocomputing. Many of the most valuable practical ideas for ne...
Stretching the Imagination (Counterpoints: Cognition, Memory, and Language)
by Cesare Cornoldi, Robert H. Logie, Maria A Brandimonte, Geir Kaufmann, and Daniel Reisberg
One of the most lively areas of debate in psychology today concerns the relationship between perception and mental representation. This issue spans virtually all domains of psychological investigation, from development to perception, from computer to neuropsychological models of human cognition. Recent studies have shown that there is a strong relationship between memory and mental representation, but others have shown that images are open to reinterpretation and manipulation, and therefore a...
Volume 44 of Advances in Child Development and Behavior includes chapters that highlight some the most recent research in the area of embodiment and epigenesis. A wide array of topics are discussed in detail, including cytoplasmic inheritance redux, emergence, self organization and developmental science, and the evolution of intelligent developmental systems. Each chapter provides in-depth discussions, and this volume serves as an invaluable resource for developmental or educational psychol...
Motivation
by John Marshall Reeve, Angela M O'Donnell, and Jeffrey K Smith
Im diesem aktuellen Lehrbuchklassiker hat John R. Anderson die modernen Erkenntnisse der Gehirnforschung und der experimentellen Kognitionswissenschaft zusammengefuhrt. Die Neuauflage ist angereichert mit neuen Erkenntnissen aus den Themengebieten Gedachtnis, Emotion und Spracherwerb (inkl. dem Erlernen einer Fremdsprache) und dem Vergleich von 'Artificial Intelligence' vs 'Human Intelligence' sowie Erkenntnissen aus der kognitiven Neurowissenschaft. Der Leser erhalt einen fundierten und gut ver...
Perceptual Activities (Perceptual activities packets) (Perceptual activities)
by Paul McCreary
Frederic C. Bartlett is well known for his contributions to cognitive psychology, especially in the field of memory. This collection, by internationally renowned scholars including: Alan Baddeley, Richard Gregory, William Brewer, Steen Larsen, Michael Cole, Jennifer Cole and Mary Douglas, brings together contemporary applications of Bartlett's work in cognitive psychology. It also includes areas in which Bartlett has been hitherto largely ignored: sociocultural psychology and the history and phi...
The Neurobiology of the Prefrontal Cortex (Oxford Psychology, #50)
by Richard E Passingham and Steven P. Wise
The prefrontal cortex makes up almost a quarter of the human brain, and it expanded dramatically during primate evolution. The Neurobiology of the Prefrontal Cortex presents a new theory about its fundamental function. In this important new book, the authors argue that primate-specific parts of the prefrontal cortex evolved to reduce errors in foraging choices, so that particular ancestors of modern humans could overcome periodic food shortages. These developments laid the foundation for working...
The brain is a cognitive organ, and regions of the brain that traverse brainstem and cortical sites orchestrate the expression of bodily sensibility: intelligent action. They can appear perfunctory or intimate, calculating a sum or selecting a mate. Schulkin presents neuroscientific research demonstrating that thought is not on one side and bodily sensibility on the other; from a biological point of view, they are integrated. Schulkin further argues that this integration has important implica...
In Feelings of Believing: Psychology, History, Phenomenology, Ryan Hickerson demonstrates that philosophers as diverse as Hume, Descartes, Husserl, and William James all treated believing as feeling. He argues that doxastic sentimentalism, thereby, is considerably more central to modern epistemology than has standardly been recognized. When the empirical psychology of overconfidence and attention is brought to bear on the history of philosophy and the phenomenology of believing, all point toward...
My Conceptual Self-Identity Exercise Journal/Workbook
by 1st Thought Pub
Online Course Pack: Children's Thinking: (United States Edition) with Research Navigator Access Card
by Robert S Siegler and Martha W. Alibali
This online course pack consists of Children's Thinking: with Research Navigator Access Card.
The Mind's Provisions (New French Thought)
by Directeur Vincent Descombes
Vincent Descombes brings together an astonishingly large body of philosophical and anthropological thought to present a thoroughgoing critique of contemporary cognitivism and to develop a powerful new philosophy of the mind. Beginning with a critical examination of American cognitivism and French structuralism, Descombes launches a more general critique of all philosophies that view the mind in strictly causal terms and suppose that the brain--and not the person--thinks. Providing a broad histor...
"James Ackerman's essays are nuggets of pure gold in the mainstream of American cultural history. They exemplify the very best art history has achieved in our time." -- Irving Lavin, The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University These essays by one of America's foremost historians of art and architecture range over theory and criticism, the search for connections between art and science in the Renaissance, and specific works of Renaissance architecture. The largest group of essays, dea...