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This book offers a comprehensive overview of the purpose of history for psychology. Its purpose is to ask why history should be of concern to psychologists in teaching and research, and in theory and in practice. The future position of humanities subjects is currently...
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Springer
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2016-11-03
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What is like to live without touch or movement/position sense (proprioception)? The only way to understand the importance of these senses, so familiar we cannot imagine their absence, is to ask someone in that position. Ian Waterman lost them below the neck over forty...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-10-28
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Current theories about human memory have been shaped by clinical observations and animal experiments. This doctrine holds that the medial temporal lobe subserves one memory system for explicit or declarative memories, while the basal ganglia subserves a separate memory...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-10-27
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How did human thought evolve into the highly complex process it is today? In the field of evolutionary cognitive archaeology, cognitive science and archaeology intersect to provide a more complete and grounded picture of the mind. With the combination of cognitive...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-10-17
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International Review of Research in Developmental Disabilities provides an ongoing scholarly look at research into the causes, effects, classification systems, and syndromes, etc. of developmental disabilities. Contributors come from wide-ranging perspectives, including...
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Academic Press
Parution :
2016-10-14
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CT afferents are receptors in mammalian hairy skin that fire action potentials when the skin is touched lightly which makes them particularly important in affective touch. Traditionally neuroscientific research has focused on more discriminative and haptic...
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Springer
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2016-10-14
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Exams have never been so hilarious! Banish the horror of school days with this bumper edition of the world’s best pupils. Bursting with misunderstandings, misspellings and spirited, if ultimately incorrect, answers, this collection brings together the most...
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Summersdale
Parution :
2016-10-13
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You can never know too much stuff. For example: Today, the people of earth take more photos in two minutes than they did in the whole of the nineteenth century. When the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre museum in Paris in 1911, one of the suspects was Pablo...
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Summersdale
Parution :
2016-10-13
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This collection features 26 new essays on character from first-rate scholars in philosophy, psychology, economics, and law. The essays are elegantly written and combine forceful argumentation with original ideas on a wide range of questions, such as:"Is Aristotle's...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-10-11
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In Exploring Robotic Minds: Actions, Symbols, and Consciousness as Self-Organizing Dynamic Phenomena, Jun Tani sets out to answer an essential and tantalizing question: How do our minds work? By providing an overview of his "synthetic neurorobotics" project, Tani...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-10-03
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New Therapeutics for Traumatic Brain Injury: Prevention of Secondary Brain Damage and Enhancement of Repair and Regeneration explores traumatic brain injury (TBI), a major cause of death and disability throughout the world. The delayed nature of the secondary injury...
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Academic Press
Parution :
2016-09-27
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The Neuropsychology of Space: Spatial Functions of the Human Brain summarizes recent research findings related to understanding the brain mechanisms involved in spatial reasoning, factors that adversely impact spatial reasoning, and the clinical implications of...
Editeur :
Academic Press
Parution :
2016-09-19
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This book constitutes the first treatment of C. S. Peirce’s unique concept of habit. Habit animated the pragmatists of the 19th and early 20th centuries, who picked up the baton from classical scholars, principally Aristotle. Most prominent among the pragmatists...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-09-12
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Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics
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A practical guide to everyday mindfulness techniques that really work.Written by an expert teacher with over 35 years' experience, and supported by online meditations and downloadable worksheets, The Little Mindfulness Workbook is a uniquely practicalpocket guide that...
Editeur :
Crimson
Parution :
2016-09-09
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A practical introduction to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) for the general reader.From one of the co-authors of the Little CBT Workbook,The Little ACT Workbookis a simple, hands-on, practical guide introducing essential ACT techniques you can use to live a full...
Editeur :
Crimson
Parution :
2016-09-09
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Rationality: Contexts and Constraints is an interdisciplinary reappraisal of the nature of rationality. In method, it is pluralistic, drawing upon the analytic approaches of philosophy, linguistics, neuroscience, and more. These methods guide exploration of the...
Editeur :
Academic Press
Parution :
2016-09-02
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Child prodigies have been observed in a range of disciplines - particularly music, mathematics, chess, and art. The question of what makes a prodigy has long been controversial. Some have dismissed the notion of giftedness, arguing that most famous prodigies had strong...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-08-26
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Der Band versammelt Vorträge, die auf der 4. Jahrestagung der Carl-Stumpf-Gesellschaft gehalten wurden. Die Tagung fand im Ethnologischen Museum Berlin und dort an dem von Carl Stumpf 1900 gegründeten Phonogrammarchiv statt. Dementsprechend behandeln die meisten...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-08-05
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What is like to live without touch or movement/position sense (proprioception)? The only way to understand the importance of these senses, so familiar we cannot imagine their absence, is to ask someone in that position. Ian Waterman lost them below the neck over forty...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-07-21
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Psychology of Learning and Motivation publishes empirical and theoretical contributions in cognitive and experimental psychology, ranging from classical and instrumental conditioning, to complex learning and problem-solving.
Each chapter thoughtfully integrates the...
Editeur :
Academic Press
Parution :
2016-07-18
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