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Blindsight
a case study spanning 35 years and new developments
Häftad, 2009
1294 kr
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Blindsight is an unusual condition where the sufferer can respond to visual stimuli, while lacking any conscious feeling of having seen the stimuli. It occurs after a particular form of brain injury.The first edition of 'Blindsight', by one of the pioneers in the field - Lawrence Weiskrantz, …
Remembering
An Activity of Mind and Brain
Inbunden, 2021
690 kr
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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, sharpened and differentiated …
Implicit Learning and Tacit Knowledge
An Essay on the Cognitive Unconscious
Häftad, 1996
1137 kr
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Implicit knowledge, a term coined by Reber in 1965, is acquired independent of conscious attempts to learn, and generally without the capacity to communicate what has been acquired. One of the core assumptions of this argument is that implicit learning is a fundamental process, one that lies at the …
Attention and Memory
An Integrated Framework
Av Nelson Cowan
Häftad, 1998
774 kr
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This book brings together and assesses past and present research on information processing, and formulates a new general model of this entire system. Throughout his discussion, Cowan emphasizes that memory and attention cannot be considered independently and presents new research in …
The Science of False Memory
Av C. J. Brainerd, V. F. Reyna
Inbunden, 2005
1853 kr
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A decade or so of intensive research on false memory has revealed much that is not well understood outside the circles of scientists who specialize in such research. However, this research has produced findings that have major implications for a number of fields that are central to human welfare, …
Response Times
Their Role in Inferring Elementary Mental Organization
Inbunden, 1986
3819 kr
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Response times are a fascinating source of information on how the mind is organized - the time taken to carry out an action tells us something about the choice process involved. This is a critical but even-handed treatment of the major themes of how response times play a role in our thinking about …
Profile Analysis
Auditory Intensity Discrimination
Inbunden, 1988
1548 kr
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This book reviews recent research on the ability of human listeners to discern changes in the shape of complex acoustic spectra--what is known as auditory profile analysis. It also discusses in a systematic way issues surrounding the discrimination of a change in acoustic intensity and the …
Visual Pattern Analyzers
Inbunden, 1989
1696 kr
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This book looks at lower level visual processing, emphasizing psychophysical experiments which measure the detection and identification of near-threshold patterns and the mathematical models used to draw inferences from experimental results. Neurophysiological and psychophysical evidence is …
Neuromotor Mechanisms in Human Communication
Inbunden, 1993
2765 kr
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Based upon two decades of research with patients who have experienced pathology in one hemisphere of the brain, this book deals with brain mechanisms in human communicative behaviour, and with related motor functions from a broadly biological point of view. The work discusses the possible …
Spatial Vision
Av Russell L. DeValois, Karen K. DeValois
Häftad, 1991
2328 kr
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This book presents a clear, coherent account of spatial vision, integrating anatomical, perceptual, psychophysical, and neurophysiological data collected by both the authors and other researchers.
Mental Representations
A dual coding approach
Av Allan Paivio
Häftad, 1990
1985 kr
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This work presents a systematic analysis of the psychological phenomena associated with the concept of mental representations--also referred to as cognitive or internal representations. A major restatement of a theory the author first developed in his 1971 book (Imagery and Verbal Processes), …
Response Times
Their Role in Inferring Elementary Mental Organization
Häftad, 1991
2581 kr
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Written by a distinguished experimental psychologist, this authoritative volume provides a clear, well-balanced, and comprehensive treatment of the mathematical theory of human response time and the role it plays in our understanding of the mind's structure. Focusing on the conceptual issues …
Classification and Cognition
Av W. K. Estes
Inbunden, 1994
2517 kr
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Based on the well-known Fitts Lectures, this volume presents a core set of concepts and principles that propose a unified interpretation of memory categorization, and decision making.
Classification and Cognition
Av W. K. Estes
Häftad, 1997
851 kr
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Understanding classification is a major challenge for formulating theories of both human cognition and artificial intelligence. Classification is a human mental activity which covers such diverse things as forming concepts, categorizing medical patients, recognising an acquaintance, or …
Understanding Figurative Language
From Metaphor to Idioms
Inbunden, 2001
1262 kr
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This book examines how people understand utterances that are intended figuratively. Traditionally, figurative language such as metaphors and idioms has been considered derivative from more complex than ostensibly straightforward literal language. Glucksberg argues that figurative language involves …
Elements of Psychophysical Theory
Häftad, 2002
1261 kr
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This book presents the basic concepts of classical psychophysics, derived from Gustav Fechner, as seen from the perspective of modern measurement theory. The theoretical discussion is elucidated with examples and numerous problems, and solutions to one-quarter of the problems are provided in the …
Visual Pattern Analyzers
Häftad, 2001
1808 kr
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The visual system must extract from the light that falls on the retina meaningful information about what is where in our environment. At an early stage it analyzes the incoming sensory data along many dimensions of pattern vision, e.g. spatial frequency, orientation, velocity, eye-of-origin. Visual …
Cognitive Foundations of Musical Pitch
Häftad, 2001
878 kr
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This book addresses the central problem of music cognition: how listeners' responses move beyond mere registration of auditory events to include the organization, interpretation, and remembrance of these events in terms of their function in a musical context of pitch and rhythm. Equally important, …
Visual Reflections
A Perceptual Deficit and Its Implications
Inbunden, 2009
1017 kr
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How much can we learn about normal visual perception and cognition from a malfunctioning visual system? Quite a lot, as Michael McCloskey makes abundantly clear in this book. McCloskey presents his work with AH, a college student who has an extraordinary deficit in visual perception. When AH looks …
From Conditioning to Conscious Recollection
Memory systems of the brain
Av Howard Eichenbaum, Neal J. Cohen
Häftad, 2004
715 kr
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This cutting-edge book offers a theoretical account of the evolution of multiple memory systems of the brain. The authors conceptualize these memory systems from both behavioural and neurobiological perspectives, guided by three related principles. First, that our understanding of a wide range of …
The Case for Mental Imagery
Av Stephen M. Kosslyn, William L. Thompson m. fl.
Inbunden, 2006
1376 kr
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Mental imagery has always been a controversial topic in psychology. The major problem has been the inherently private nature of mental images, which has traditionally prevented objective assessment of their structure and function. Between researchers in cognitive psychology and computer-science, a …
Seeing Black and White
Inbunden, 2006
1985 kr
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Most people are surprised to learn that seeing has not yet been explained by science. Incredibly, scientists cannot even explain why some surfaces appear to be black while others appear to be white. The physical difference between a surface that appears to be black and one that appears to be white …
The Continuity of Mind
Häftad, 2008
1048 kr
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The cognitive and neural sciences have been on the brink of a paradigm shift for over a decade now. The traditional information-processing framework in psychology, with its computer metaphor of the mind, is still considered to be the mainstream approach. However, the dynamical-systems perspective …
Major Issues in Cognitive Aging
Inbunden, 2010
923 kr
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In recent years the field of cognitive aging has flourished and expanded into many different disciplines. It is probably, therefore, inevitable that some of the research has become very narrow, primarily focused on "counting and classifying the wrinkles of aged behavior," rather than addressing …
The Case for Mental Imagery
Av Stephen Kosslyn, William Thompson m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
577 kr
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"This volume is the most important if not the final word on the great imagery debate. It examines issues critical to all cognition. For example, whether the brain is a general purpose computer and if the brain's structure imposes limits on what can be represented in our minds." Michael I. Posner, …
Elements of Episodic Memory
Häftad, 1985
1508 kr
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Elements of Episodic Memory was a seminal text in the memory literature, highly cited and influential. It has been unavailable for some years, but is now back in print as in its original form, with this reissue.The book examines the critical role that retrieval processes play in remembering. It …
The Musical Mind
The Cognitive Psychology of Music
Häftad, 1986
1564 kr
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What are the mental processes involved in listening to, performing, and composing music? What is involved in 'understanding' a piece of music? How are such skills acquired?Questions such as these form the basis of the cognitive psychology of music. The author addresses these questions by surveying …
Vowel Perception and Production
Av B. S. Rosner, J. B. Pickering
Inbunden, 1994
4067 kr
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The last 50 years have witnessed a rapid growth in the understanding of the articulation and the acoustics of vowels. Contemporary theories of speech perception have concentrated on consonant perception, and this volume is intended as a balance to such bias. The authors propose a computational …
Memory, Imprinting, and the Brain
An Inquiry into Mechanisms
Av Gabriel Horn
Häftad, 1985
2108 kr
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Ranging from behavioral to molecular levels of analysis, this informative study presents the results of recent research into the biochemistry and neural mechanisms of imprinting. Horn discusses some of the difficulties that researchers have encountered in analyzing the neural basis of memory and …
Visual Stress
Inbunden, 1995
4121 kr
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This book provides the first general and unified theory of visual discomfort. The theory is based on the observation that people find certain visual stimuli uncomfortable, and that these same stimule induce seizures in patients with photosensitive epilepsy. The theory is applied to a variety of …
