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  • The Swimmer

    An Integrated Computational Model of A Perceptual-motor System

    by William R. Uttal, Gary Bradshaw, Sriram Dayanand, Robb Lovell, Thomas Shepherd ...
    Series series Scientific Psychology Series
    This research monograph describes a large programming project in which an underwater organism, capable of perceiving, learning, deciding, and navigating, is computationally simulated. The developed computational model serves as a contemporary theory of perceptual-motor performance, embodying much of what is known about human vision and some of what is known about other cognitive processes. This ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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  • Meditation for Busy People

    Sixty Seconds to Serenity

    by Dawn Groves ...
    This concise, jargon-free guide introduces a simple method for fitting meditation into a complex and overbusy lifestyle. The Meditation for Busy People (MBP) method is practical, portable, and suitable for any time frame from seconds to hours. Its also flexible enough to perform while sitting, standing, or walking.In a supportive, friendly style, the author shows us how regular or even sporadic ... Read more

    $8.09 USD

  • Emotion and Decision-making Explained

    by Edmund T. Rolls ...
    What produces emotions? Why do we have emotions? How do we have emotions? Why do emotional states feel like something? What is the relation between emotion, and reward value, and subjective feelings of pleasure? How is the value of a good represented in the brain? Will neuroeconomics replace classical microeconomics? How does the brain implement decision-making? Are gene-defined rewards and ... Read more

    $82.79 USD

  • Signal Detection

    Mechanisms, Models, and Applications

    Edited by Michael L. Commons, John A. Nevin, Michael C. Davison, Michael Davidson ...
    Series series Quantitative Analyses of Behavior Series
    This volume is based on the 10th annual Harvard Symposium for the Quantitative Analysis of Behavior. The first Harvard Symposium was devoted to signal-detection analyses of reinforcement and choice behavior. The present volume reprises the original signal- detection theme, incorporating additional insights based on experimental and theoretical analyses undertaken during the years separating the ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Nonlinear Psychophysical Dynamics

    by Robert A.M. Gregson ...
    Nonlinear Psychophysical Dynamics utilizes new results in systems theory as a foundation for representing sensory channels as a form of recursive loop processes. It demonstrates that a range of phenomena, previously treated as diverse or anomalous, are more readily seen as related and as the natural consequence of self-regulation and nonlinearity. Some cases with appropriate data analysis are ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Advances in Human Error, Reliability, Resilience, and Performance

    Proceedings of the AHFE 2017 International Conference on Human Error, Reliability, Resilience, and Performance, July 17–21,2017, The Westin Bonaventure Hotel,Los Angeles, California, USA

    Edited by Ronald Laurids Boring ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book brings together studies broadly dealing with human error from different disciplines and perspectives. They concern human performance; human variability and reliability analysis; medical, driver and pilot error, as well as automation error; reports on root cause analyses; and the cognitive modeling of human error. In addition, they highlight cutting-edge applications in safety management, ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Unhappiness, Sadness and 'Depression'

    Antidepressants and the Mental Disorder Epidemic

    by Tullio Giraldi ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This book examines existing treatments, legislation and research methodology of depression and exposes their limitations, championing psycho-social support as an alternative. Depression, affecting 350 million people according to the World Health Organisation, is almost invariably diagnosed by the criteria of the American Psychiatric Association – a definition which encompasses those with normal ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Advances in Human Factors in Robots and Unmanned Systems

    Proceedings of the AHFE 2016 International Conference on Human Factors in Robots and Unmanned Systems, July 27-31, 2016, Walt Disney World®, Florida, USA

    Edited by Pamela Savage-Knepshield, Jessie Chen ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book focuses on the importance of human factors in the development of reliable and safe unmanned systems. It discusses current challenges such as how to improve perceptual and cognitive abilities of robots, develop suitable synthetic vision systems, cope with degraded reliability of unmanned systems, predict robotic behavior in case of a loss of communication, the vision for future soldier ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • A Longitudinal Study of Dyslexia

    Bergen’s Multivariate Study of Children’s Learning Disabilities

    by Hans-Jörgen Gjessing, Bjorn Karlsen ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    Psychological and educational researchers in the Scandinavian countries have cooperated in a research effort relating to children's learning disabilities for more than a decade. Support has come from the federal governments and other funding agencies in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark through the Secretariat for Scan dinavian Cultural Cooperation. A number of independent studies have already been ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Origin of Life Patterns

    In the Natural Inclusion of Space in Flux

    by Alan Rayner ...
    Series series SpringerBriefs in Psychology
    Understanding the relationship between human cultural psychology and the evolutionary ecology of living systems is currently limited by abstract perceptions of space and boundaries as sources of definitive discontinuity. This Brief explores the new understandings possible when space and boundaries are perceived instead as sources of receptive continuity and dynamic distinction between local ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Majority and Minority Influence

    Societal Meaning and Cognitive Elaboration

    Edited by Stamos Papastamou, Antonis Gardikiotis, Gerasimos Prodromitis ...
    Series series Current Issues in Social Psychology
    Majority and minority influence research examines how groups influence the attitudes, thoughts and behaviours of individuals, groups and society as a whole. This volume collects recent work by an international group of scholars, representing a variety of different theoretical approaches to majority and minority influence.The book provides a thorough evaluation of significant current developments ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Philosophy of Behavioral Biology

    Edited by Kathryn S. Plaisance, Thomas A.C. Reydon ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This volume provides a broad overview of issues in the philosophy of behavioral biology, covering four main themes: genetic, developmental, evolutionary, and neurobiological explanations of behavior. It is both interdisciplinary and empirically informed in its approach, addressing philosophical issues that arise from recent scientific findings in biological research on human and non-human animal ... Read more

    $143.09 USD