[PDF] Exploring Cognition eBook

Author : Arthur P. Shimamura
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 38,82 MB
Release : 2013-04-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0199862133

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How do movies engage us so thoroughly, capturing our sensations, thoughts, and emotions? This edited volume introduces psychocinematics, which brings together film theorists, philosophers, psychologists, and neuroscientists to consider the viability of a scientific approach to our movie experience.

Author : Jin, Zheng
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 40,17 MB
Release : 2014-10-31
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1466666005

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While widely studied, the capacity of the human mind remains largely unexplored. As such, researchers are continually seeking ways to understand the brain, its function, and its impact on human behavior. Exploring Implicit Cognition: Learning, Memory, and Social Cognitive Processes explores research surrounding the ways in which an individual’s unconscious is able to influence and impact that person’s behavior without their awareness. Focusing on topics pertaining to social cognition and the unconscious process, this title is ideal for use by students, researchers, psychologists, and academicians interested in the latest insights into implicit cognition.

Author : David Klahr
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 48,10 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780262611763

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David Klahr suggests that we now know enough about cognition--and hence about everyday thinking--to advance our understanding of scientific thinking.

Author : Gillian Cohen
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 48,94 MB
Release : 2013-12-19
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1317710118

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Exploring Cognition: Damaged Brains and Neural Networks analyses the contribution made by cognitive neuropsychology and connectionist modelling to theoretical explanations of cognitive processes. Bringing together evidence from both damaged brains and neural networks, this exciting and innovative approach leads to re-evaluation of traditional theories: connectionist models lesioned to mimic the residual function of the damaged brain and rehabilitated to simulate the process of recovery suggest underlying mechanisms and challenge previous interpretations. In this reader key articles by leading international researchers are combined with linking commentaries that provide a context, highlight the conceptual themes and evaluate the evidence. Carefully selected to include hotly debated topics, the papers cover, among others, the controversies surrounding explanations for category specificity in object recognition and for covert recognition of faces and words; the mechanisms underlying the use of regular and irregular past tenses; and the reading of regularly and irregularly spelled words. The challenges posed by connectionist models to assumptions about the nature of dissociations, the need for symbolic rule-based operations in language processing and the modularity and localisation of processes are assessed. Exploring Cognition: Damaged Brains and Neural Networks will be of interest to advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers in cognitive neuropsychology and cognitive neuroscience.

Author : Dean A. Shepherd
Publisher : Springer
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 46,78 MB
Release : 2018-01-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3319717820

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This open access book investigates the inter-relationship between the mind and a potential opportunity to explore the psychology of entrepreneurship. Building on recent research, this book offers a broad scope investigation of the different aspects of what goes on in the mind of the (potential) entrepreneur as he or she considers the pursuit of a potential opportunity, the creation of a new organization, and/or the selection of an entrepreneurial career. This book focuses on individuals as the level of analysis and explores the impact of the organization and the environment only inasmuch as they impact the individual’s cognitions. Readers will learn why some individuals and managers are able to able to identify and successfully act upon opportunities in uncertain environments while others are not. This book applies a cognitive lens to understand individuals’ knowledge, motivation, attention, identity, and emotions in the entrepreneurial process.

Author : Gillian Cohen
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 19,69 MB
Release : 2013-12-19
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1317710126

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An innovative, topical and engaging reader to accompany advanced undergraduate and postgraduate courses in cognition Presents a unique collection of key articles by leading international researchers in cognition, cognitive neuropsychology and connectionism Brings together in one place articles that challenge or inform traditional theories of cognition Spotlights current areas of debate and controversy in cogntive psychology of interest to students and researchers alike Editors are widely known in their fields and are authors of successful textbooks Introduction and linking sections provide essential context and evaluation

Author : S. Murray Sherman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 14,47 MB
Release : 2021-11-12
Category : Medical
ISBN : 019750387X

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CELL TYPES IN THE THALAMUS AND CORTEX -- INTRINSIC MEMBRANE PROPERTIES -- SYNAPTIC PROPERTIES -- GLUTAMATERGIC DRIVERS AND MODULATORS -- FIRST AND HIGHER ORDER THALAMIC RELAYS -- THALAMIC CIRCUITRY -- BRIEF OVERVIEW OF CORTICAL ORGANIZATION -- CLASSIFICATION OF THALAMOCORTICAL AND CORTICOTHALAMIC MOTIFS -- SPIKE TIMING AND THALAMOCORTICAL INTERACTIONS -- PARALLEL PROCESSING OF SENSORY SIGNALS TO CORTEX -- THALAMOCORTICAL SUBSTRATES OF ATTENTION -- CORTICOTHALAMIC CIRCUITS LINKING SENSATION AND ACTION.

Author : Don Nix
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 22,23 MB
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 1136461566

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Computers have become a topic of concern, debate, argument, dogmatism, and inquiry among a variety of people who are interested in the fate and effectiveness of the educational system. This book presents working hypotheses of ways in which computers may fit into and/or transform classroom education. Through the exploration of learning and cognitive theory as it infuses technological developments, this volume promises to illuminate a number of important issues, including experiential learning and nontraditional computer-based instruction.

Author : Debra S. Herrmann
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 535 pages
File Size : 46,58 MB
Release : 2016-01-27
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1498748430

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Unlike any other book, Avian Cognition thoroughly examines avian intelligence, behavior, and individuality. Preferences, choices, motivation, and habits of species, flocks, and individual birds are discussed and compared. This book investigates who birds are and why they do what they do. Daily, seasonal, and play activities, creativity, reasoning a