Cognitive Psychology category: 3003 books
Connectionist Representations of Tonal Music
Discovering Musical Patterns by Interpreting Artifical Neural Networks
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
Previously, artificial neural networks have been used to capture only the informal properties of music. However, cognitive scientist Michael Dawson found that by training artificial neural networks to make basic judgments concerning tonal music, such as identifying the tonic of a scale or the quality...
Visual Masking
Studying Perception, Attention, and Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2013
Visual masking is a technique used in cognitive research to understand pre-conscious processes (priming, for example), consciousness, visual limits, and perception issues associated with psychopathology. This book is a short format review of research using visual masking: how it has been used, and...
Observer Mechanics
A Formal Theory of Perception
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2014
Observer Mechanics: A Formal Theory of Perception provides information pertinent to the fundamental aspects of perception. This book provides an approach to the study of perception that attempts to be both general and rigorous.
Organized into 10 chapters, this book begins with an overview of...
by Vicki Bruce
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Each of us is able to recognise the faces of many hundreds if not thousands of people known to us. We recognise faces despite seeing them in different views and with changing expressions. From these varying patterns we somehow extract the invariant characteristics of an individual’s face, and usually...
Play = Learning
How Play Motivates and Enhances Children's Cognitive and Social-Emotional Growth
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2006
In Play=Learning, top experts in child development and learning contend that in over-emphasizing academic achievement, our culture has forgotten about the importance of play for children's development.
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Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Understanding how memories are induced and maintained is one of the major outstanding questions in modern neuroscience. This is difficult to address in the mammalian brain due to its enormous complexity, and invertebrates offer major advantages for learning and memory studies because of their relative...
Mindfulness-integrated CBT for Well-being and Personal Growth
Four Steps to Enhance Inner Calm, Self-Confidence and Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
This is a clear, streamlined guide to using Mindfulness-integrated Cognitive Behavior Therapy (MiCBT) to improve well-being and manage a range of personal and interpersonal difficulties.
Integrates the core principles of Eastern mindfulness with the Western evidence-based principles of CBT
Provides...
Whistled Languages
A Worldwide Inquiry on Human Whistled Speech
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
The main focus of this monograph on whistled speech is the result of a worldwide inquiry primarily based on the author’s unprecedented fieldwork and laboratory experience. The different questions raised by the origin and the evolution of whistled forms of languages are also explored, including the...
Hearing Loss
Causes, Prevention, and Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
Hearing Loss: Causes, Prevention, and Treatment covers hearing loss, causes and prevention, treatments, and future directions in the field, also looking at the cognitive problems that can develop.
To avoid the “silent epidemic of hearing loss, it is necessary to promote early screening,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2008
In the last ten years the neuroscience of language has matured as a field. Ten years ago, neuroimaging was just being explored for neurolinguistic questions, whereas today it constitutes a routine component. At the same time there have been significant developments in linguistic and psychological...
by Challenge Self
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
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Involuntary Autobiographical Memories
An Introduction to the Unbidden Past
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2009
We often remember personal experiences without any conscious effort. A piece of music heard on the radio may stir a memory of a moment from the past. Such occurrences are known as involuntary autobiographical memories. They often occur in response to environmental stimuli or aspects of current thought....
by Peter Fuggle, Vicki Curry, Sandra Dunsmuir
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
This timely book uniquely addresses the application of CBT to children and young people within health, school and community contexts.
With the recent expansion of increasing access to psychological therapies (IAPT) CBT is increasingly applied to work with children outside the traditional therapy...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
Dual Process Theory 2.0 provides a comprehensive overview of the new directions in which dual process research is heading. Human thinking is often characterized as an interplay between intuition and deliberation and this two-headed, dual process view of human thinking has been very influential in...