“…Why We Read Fiction offers a lucid overview of the most exciting area of research in contemporary cognitive psychology known as "Theory of Mind" and discusses its implications for literary studies. …”
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“…This volume examines the role of logic in cognitive psychology in light of recent developments, such as Gonzalo Reyes's new semantic theory. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction / Dominik Perler -- The early Albertus Magnus and his Arabic sources on the theory of the soul / Dag Nikolaus Hasse -- The inner cathedral : mental architecture in high scholasticism / Peter King -- Some varieties of semantic externalism in Duns Scotus's Cognitive psychology / Richard Cross -- Why is thought linguistic? …”

“…This topic is a perennial favorite in courses on bilingualism, psycholinguistics, and even cognitive psychology, and has come into even sharper focus over the past decade or so with the rapid increase in the availability of crosslinguistic data from languages other than English…”
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“…Millikan places cognitive psychology in an evolutionary context where human cognition is assumed to be an outgrowth of primitive forms of mentality, and assumed to have 'functions' in the biological sense. …”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Illusory conjunctions in the perception of objects. Cognitive Psychology., 14, 107-141…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction -- Valency -- Linguistic approaches to valency and syntactic structure -- Implication for acquisition : syntax is simple -- Developmental evidence : the earliest word combinations are syntactic mergers -- Conclusions: children learn to merge two words according to their valency -- The learning curve -- The learning curve in cognitive psychology -- Implication for acquisition : syntax should transfer right away -- Developmental evidence : learning curves and generalizations in early syntax -- Conclusions: lexical specific syntactic frames facilitate others -- Lexicalism --The linguistic basis to lexicalism -- Implication for acquisition : no abstract schema formation -- Developmental evidence : no change in the form of syntactic schemas -- Conclusions: children learn a lexicalist syntax -- Similarity -- Similarity for transfer and generalization -- Implication for acquisition : no role for semantic linking in learning syntax -- Developmental evidence : no semantic effects in generalization and transfer -- Conclusions: children utilize similarity of form to organize the process of acquisition -- The growth of syntax -- The language web -- Implication for acquisition : learning means linking to the network -- Developmental evidence : children recreate the global features of the maternal network -- Conclusions: children join the language network…”

“…Traditional approaches to cognitive psychology correspond with a classical view of logic and probability theory. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…A psychoanalytic psychology and art of unconscious emotion -- An inward turn : Vienna 1900 -- Exploring the truths hidden beneath the surface : origins of a scientific medicine -- Viennese artists, writers, and scientists meet in the Zuckerkandl Salon -- Exploring the brain beneath the skull : origins of a scientific psychiatry -- Exploring mind together with the brain : the development of a brain-based psychology -- Exploring mind apart from the brain : origins of a dynamic psychology -- Searching for inner meaning in literature -- The depiction of modern women's sexuality in art -- The depiction of the psyche in art -- The fusion of eroticism, aggression, and anxiety in art -- A cognitive psychology of visual perception and emotional response to art -- Discovering the beholder's share -- Observation is also invention : the brain as a creativity machine -- The emergence of twentieth-century painting -- A biological science of the beholder's visual response to art -- The brain's processing of visual images -- Deconstruction of the visual image: the building blocks of form perception -- Reconstruction of the world we see : vision is information processing -- High-level vision and the brain's perception of face, hands, and body -- Top-down processing of information : using memory to find meaning -- The deconstruction of emotion : the search for emotional primitives -- The artistic depiction of emotion through the face, hands, body, and color -- Unconscious emotions, conscious feelings, and their bodily expression -- A biological science of the beholder's emotional response to art -- Top-down control of cognitive emotional information -- The biological response to beauty and ugliness in art -- The beholder's share : entering the private theater of another's mind -- The biology of the beholder's share : modeling other people's minds -- How the brain regulates emotion and empathy -- An evolving dialogue between visual art and science -- Artistic universals and the austrian expressionists -- The creative brain -- The cognitive unconscious and the creative brain -- Brain circuits for creativity -- Talent, creativity, and brain development -- Knowing ourselves : the new dialogue between art and science.…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; 1 Introduction; Changes in the meaning of risk; Contemporary concepts of risk; Risk anxieties and late modernity; The aim of this book; 2 Theorizing risk; The technico-scientific perspective; Cognitive psychology; Sociocultural perspectives; Social constructionist positions; Concluding comments; 3 Risk and culture; The importance of culture; Purity, danger and the body; Risk and blame; The grid-group model; Concluding comments; 4 Risk and reflexive modernization; Beck and the 'risk society'; Reflexive modernization; Individualization; World risk society and cosmopolitanism Giddens' perspectives on risk; Risk and trust; Concluding comments; 5 Risk and governmentality; Governmentality; From dangerousness to risk; Contemporary risk strategies; Precautionary risk and the crisis of neo-liberalism; Concluding comments; 6 Risk and subjectivity; Risk knowledges and reflexivity; Social structures and power relations; Aesthetic, affective and habitual dimensions; Concluding comments; 7 Risk and Otherness; Conceptualizing Otherness; Embodiment and Otherness; Hybridity and liminality; The psychodynamics of Otherness; Spatiality and Otherness Concluding comments; 8 Risk and pleasure; Escape attempts; Edgework; Risk-taking as gendered performances; Desire and transgression; Concluding comments…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Williams -- techniqes for creating and using web questionnaires in research and teaching / Jonathan Baron and Michael Siepmann -- The cognitive psychology online laboratory / Gregory Francis, Ian Neath, and Aimee Surprenant -- The server side of psychology web experiments / William C. …”

“…This e-book has include frontline research in computational neuroscience and cognitive psychology involving applications of nonlinear analysis, especially regarding the representation and modeling of complex neural and cognitive systems. …”

“…With concise explanations of different schools of psychology including psychotherapy, cognitive psychology and behaviorism, this is an ideal reference whether you're a student, or a general reader. …”

“…Drawing on the latest research in neuroscience and cognitive psychology, Impossible to Ignore is a practical step-by-step guide that will show you how to control the 10 percent that your audiences do remember by creating content that attracts attention, sharpens recall, and guides decision-making toward a desired action…”

“…In The Small Big, three heavyweights from the world of persuasion science and practice describe how, in today's information-overloaded and stimulation-saturated world, increasingly it is the small changes that you make that lead to the biggest differences.In the last few years, more research-from fields such as neuroscience, cognitive psychology, social psychology, and behavioral economics-has helped to uncover an even greater understanding of how influence, persuasion, and behavior change happens. …”

“…Appropriate as a textbook for graduate courses, The Evolution and Function of Cognition provides a systematic and progressively inclusive integration of the facts and principles of cognitive psychology. It includes contributions of information processing and reaction, and emphasizes historical continuity. …”

“…The chapters in the Oxford Handbook of Reading synthesize research on these topics from fields ranging from vision science to cognitive psychology and education, focusing on how studies using a cognitive approach can shed light on how the reading process works. …”

“…This book draws from the disciplines of cognitive psychology, neurophysiology, behavioral psychology, genetics, philosophy, and cross-cultural studies. …”

“…., behavior analysis) and cognitive psychology in a systematic manner. It does so by adopting a functional-cognitive framework that recognizes the fundamental differences between both approaches while also highlighting the way in which they are mutually supportive. …”