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  • Perspectives on Mental Representation

    Experimental and Theoretical Studies of Cognitive Processes and Capacities

    Edited by Jacques Mehler, Edward C.T. Walker, Merrill Garrett ...
    Series series Psychology Library Editions: Perception
    Originally published in 1982, the editors felt that their field was clearly in need of explanatory accounts for many different areas. This volume presents statements of the status of research in several areas by scholars at the forefront of the discipline. It tries at the same time to juxtapose theoretical and experimental perspectives in order to display some of the major lines of tension in the ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

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    by Jakob Hohwy ...
    A new theory is taking hold in neuroscience. It is the theory that the brain is essentially a hypothesis-testing mechanism, one that attempts to minimise the error of its predictions about the sensory input it receives from the world. It is an attractive theory because powerful theoretical arguments support it, and yet it is at heart stunningly simple. Jakob Hohwy explains and explores this theory ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Science

    Edited by Keith Frankish, William Ramsey ...
    Cognitive science is a cross-disciplinary enterprise devoted to understanding the nature of the mind. In recent years, investigators in philosophy, psychology, the neurosciences, artificial intelligence, and a host of other disciplines have come to appreciate how much they can learn from one another about the various dimensions of cognition. The result has been the emergence of one of the most ... Read more

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  • How the Mind Uses the Brain

    To Move the Body and Image the Universe

    by Ralph Ellis, Natika Newton ...
    The nature of consciousness and the relationship between the mind and brain have become the most hotly debated topics in philosophy. This book explains and argues for a new approach called enactivism. Enactivism maintains that consciousness and all subjective thoughts and feelings arise from an organism's attempts to use its environment in the service of purposeful action. The authors admit that ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Feeling Body

    Affective Science Meets the Enactive Mind

    by Giovanna Colombetti ...
    A proposal that extends the enactive approach developed in cognitive science and philosophy of mind to issues in affective science.In The Feeling Body, Giovanna Colombetti takes ideas from the enactive approach developed over the last twenty years in cognitive science and philosophy of mind and applies them for the first time to affective science—the study of emotions, moods, and feelings. She ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Deductive Reasoning and Strategies

    Edited by Walter Schaeken, Gino De Vooght, Andr‚ Vandierendonck, G‚ry d'Ydewalle, Gery d'Ydewalle ...
    This book brings together both theoretical and empirical research directed toward the role of strategies in deductive reasoning. It offers the first systematic attempt to discuss the role of strategies for deductive reasoning. The empirical chapters correspond well with the main issues in the study of deduction, namely propositional reasoning, spatial reasoning, and syllogistic reasoning. In ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Creating Language

    Integrating Evolution, Acquisition, and Processing

    by Morten H. Christiansen, Nick Chater ...
    A work that reveals the profound links between the evolution, acquisition, and processing of language, and proposes a new integrative framework for the language sciences.Language is a hallmark of the human species; the flexibility and unbounded expressivity of our linguistic abilities is unique in the biological world. In this book, Morten Christiansen and Nick Chater argue that to understand this ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Stories, Scripts, and Scenes

    Aspects of Schema Theory

    by J. M. Mandler ...
    Series series Distinguished Lecture Series
    First published in 1984. This book is an expansion of three lectures on schema theory given at the University of Alberta in the fall of 1983 as part of the MacEachran Memorial Lecture Series. ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Cognition and Perception

    How Do Psychology and Neural Science Inform Philosophy?

    by Athanassios Raftopoulos ...
    An argument that there are perceptual mechanisms that retrieve information in cognitively and conceptually unmediated ways and that this sheds light on various philosophical issues.In Cognition and Perception, Athanassios Raftopoulos discusses the cognitive penetrability of perception and claims that there is a part of visual processes (which he calls “perception”) that results in representational ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Enactivist Interventions

    Rethinking the Mind

    by Shaun Gallagher ...
    Enactivist Interventions is an interdisciplinary work that explores how theories of embodied cognition illuminate many aspects of the mind, including intentionality, representation, the affect, perception, action and free will, higher-order cognition, and intersubjectivity. Gallagher argues for a rethinking of the concept of mind, drawing on pragmatism, phenomenology and cognitive science. ... Read more

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  • Second Language Speech

    Theory and Practice

    by Laura Colantoni, Jeffrey Steele, Paola Escudero ...
    Second language acquisition has rapidly grown as a field over the past decade, as our knowledge of the ways in which children and adults learn and use a second language has become crucial for effective language teaching. In addition to this important 'applied' function, research into second language acquisition has also informed the fields of linguistics and psychology in general, as it has shed ... Read more

    $50.99 USD

  • Learning to Spell

    Research, Theory, and Practice Across Languages

    Edited by Charles A. Perfetti, Laurence Rieben, Michel Fayol ...
    This distinctive cross-linguistic examination of spelling examines the cognitive processes that underlie spelling and the process of learning how to spell. The chapters report and summarize recent research in English, German, Hebrew, and French.Framing the specific research on spelling are chapters that place spelling in braod theoretical perspectives provided by cognitive neuroscience, ... Read more

    $82.99 USD