Cognitive Psychology category: 3003 books
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Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
This volume is about the many ways we perceive. In nineteen new essays, philosophers and cognitive scientists explore the nature of the individual senses, how and what they tell us about the world, and how they interrelate. They consider how the senses extract perceptual content from receptoral information...
WAIS-IV, WMS-IV, and ACS
Advanced Clinical Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
This book provides users of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS-IV) with information on applying the WAIS-IV, including additional indexes and information regarding use in special populations for advanced clinical use and interpretation. The book offers sophisticated users of the WAIS-IV and...
by Aaron T. Beck
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Durante las dos últimas décadas hemos presenciado un tremendo progreso en el conocimiento y tratamiento de los trastornos de ansiedad. Los enfoques derivados de la terapia cognitiva, particularmente, han logrado una base sustancial de apoyo empírico. En el presente libro, escrito por una autoridad...
Logical Abilities in Children: Volume 2
Logical Inference: Underlying Operations
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
Originally published in 1974, the second volume of four (Logical Inference: Underlying Operations) provides a process-model for the solution of certain syllogistic reasoning problems. Testable predictions of the model are easily derived, and the available evidence supports the model’s description...
WJ IV Clinical Use and Interpretation
Scientist-Practitioner Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
WJ IV Clinical Use and Interpretation: Scientist-Practitioner Perspectives provides clinical use and interpretive information for clinical practitioners using the Woodcock-Johnson, Fourth Edition (WJ IV). The book discusses how the cognitive, achievement, and oral language batteries are organized,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
As humans, our many levels of language use distinguish us from the rest of the animal world. For many scholars, it is the recursive aspect of human speech that makes it truly human. But linguists continue to argue about what recursion actually is, leading to the central dilemma: is full recursion,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
This book is the third in a series based on conferences sponsored by the Metroplex Institute for Neural Dynamics, an interdisciplinary organization of neural network professionals in academia and industry. The topics selected are of broad interest to both those interested in designing machines to...
Improving Student Information Search
A Metacognitive Approach
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
Metacognition is a set of active mental processes that allows users to monitor, regulate, and direct their personal cognitive strategies. Improving Student Information Search traces the impact of a tutorial on education graduate students’ problem-solving in online research databases. The tutorial...
Neuroergonomics
A Cognitive Neuroscience Approach to Human Factors and Ergonomics
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
This book covers the foundations and successes of Neuroergonomics, combining neuroscience and ergonomics to enhance efficiency and safety. An overview of the essential areas within the field is given including chapters on brain networks, perception, attention, and performance.
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Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2016
Recent advances in neuroscience suggest that the human brain is particularly well-suited to design things: concepts, tools, languages and places. Current research even indicates that the human brain may indeed have evolved to be creative, to imagine new ideas, to put them into practice, and to critically...
The Role of 5-HT Systems on Memory and Dysfunctional Memory
Emergent Targets for Memory Formation and Memory Alterations
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Drugs acting through 5-HT (5-hydroxytryptamine, or serotonin) systems modulate memory and its alterations, but the mechanisms by which they do so are poorly understood. Agonists and antagonists for 5-HT receptors, as well as serotonin uptake inhibitors, present promnesic (memory-promoting) and/or...
by Som Bathla
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
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The Evolution of Intelligent Systems
How Molecules became Minds
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2010
How could something as seemingly transcendental as the human mind have arisen from far simpler material beginnings? This book provides a comprehensive overview of evolution from pre-life and early life forms through increasing complexity to advanced cognitive systems using a new framework based on dynamic systems theory.
Digitising Command and Control
A Human Factors and Ergonomics Analysis of Mission Planning and Battlespace Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
This book presents a human factors and ergonomics evaluation of a digital Mission Planning and Battle-space Management (MP/BM) system. An emphasis was placed on the activities at the Brigade (Bde) and the Battle Group (BG) headquarters (HQ) levels. The analysts distributed their time evenly between...