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Modern medicine enables us to keep many people alive after they have suffered severe brain damage and show no reliable outward signs of consciousness. Many such patients are misdiagnosed as being in a permanent vegetative state when they are actually in a minimally...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-01-13
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Psychophysics: A Practical Introduction, Second Edition, is the primary scientific tool for understanding how the physical world of colors, sounds, odors, movements, and shapes translates into the sensory world of sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell; in other words,...
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Academic Press
Parution :
2016-01-04
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Emotions, Technology, and Health examines how healthcare consumers interact with health technology, how this technology mediates interpersonal interactions, and the effectiveness of technology in gathering health-related information in various situations. The first...
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Academic Press
Parution :
2016-01-04
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Neuroscience of Pain, Stress, and Emotion: Psychological and Clinical Implications presents updated research on stress, pain, and emotion, all key research areas within both basic and clinical neuroscience. Improved research understanding of their interaction is...
Editeur :
Academic Press
Parution :
2015-12-28
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Emotional design explicitly addresses the emotional relationship between the objects and the subjects of design—in this book, the objects are technologies, and the subjects are technology users. The first section delves into the philosophy and theory of emotional design...
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Academic Press
Parution :
2015-12-28
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This book reassesses the seminal work of Wilhelm Wundt by discussing the history and philosophy of psychology. It traces the pioneering theorist’s intellectual development and the evolution of psychology throughout his career. The author draws on little-known sources to...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-12-23
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Left-handedness has been connected to many different conditions, traits, and abilities. This is especially true for pathological syndromes, such as schizophrenia, along with learning disabilities and autism. The published research on handedness is vast and frequently...
Editeur :
Academic Press
Parution :
2015-12-22
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In 1971, on two separate occasions, Brenda Downing was raped. She was in her final year of primary school.In the immediate aftermath, the shame she harboured, coupled with a failed disclosure the same year, meant she did not risk talking of her experience again until...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-12-18
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This volume offers very selected papers from the 2014 conference of the “International Association for Computing and Philosophy” (IACAP) - a conference tradition of 28 years. The theme of the papers is the two-way relation between computing technologies
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Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-12-16
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This volume presents a knowledge-based approach to concept-level sentiment analysis at the crossroads between affective computing, information extraction, and common-sense computing, which exploits both computer and social sciences to better interpret and process...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-12-11
Collection :
Socio-Affective Computing
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Dieses Buch widmet sich der Experimentalpsychologie Wilhelm Wundts. Dieser etablierte 1879 das weltweit erste experimentalpsychologische Labor und gilt als Gründervater der wissenschaftlichen Psychologie. Er entwarf ein innovatives Forschungsprogramm, welches auf die...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-12-11
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This Handbook examines disparities in public health by highlighting recent theoretical and methodological advances in cultural neuroscience. It traces the interactions of cultural, biological, and environmental factors that create adverse physical and mental health...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-12-09
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A comprehensive, up-to-date examination of the most important theory, concepts, methodological approaches, and applications in the burgeoning field of judgment and decision making (JDM) Emphasizes the growth of JDM applications with chapters devoted to medical decision...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-11-30
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We grow up thinking there are five senses, but we forget about the ten neglected senses of the body that both enable and limit our experience.
Embodied explores the psychology of physical sensation in ten chapters: balance, movement, pressure (acting in gravity),...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-11-26
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Why do red placebos stimulate whereas blue placebos calm?Why do more placebos work better than few? And why do more expensive placebos work better than cheaper ones? These are some of the key questions that often come to mind when we consider the slippery and...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-11-26
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We grow up thinking there are five senses, but we forget about the ten neglected senses of the body that both enable and limit our experience.
Embodied explores the psychology of physical sensation in ten chapters: balance, movement, pressure (acting in gravity),...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-11-26
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Why do red placebos stimulate whereas blue placebos calm?Why do more placebos work better than few? And why do more expensive placebos work better than cheaper ones? These are some of the key questions that often come to mind when we consider the slippery and...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-11-26
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Dynamic Thinking: A Primer onDynamic Field Theory introduces the reader to a new approach to understanding cognitive and neural dynamics using the concepts ofDynamic Field Theory (DFT).Dynamic Neural Fields are formalizations of how neural populations represent the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-11-12
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Exercise-Cognition Interaction: Neuroscience Perspectives is the only book on the market that examines the neuroscientific correlation between exercise and cognitive functioning. The upsurge in research in recent years has confirmed that cognitive-psychology theory...
Editeur :
Academic Press
Parution :
2015-11-06
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Recent research findings have challenged the idea that creativity is domain-general. Domain Specificity of Creativity brings together the research information on domain specificity in creativity -- both the research that supports it and answers to research arguments...
Editeur :
Academic Press
Parution :
2015-11-06
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