epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2014-01-06 | Author:D. F. Swaab [Swaab, D. F.]

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-11-14 | Author:Gazzaniga, Michael S. [Gazzaniga, Michael S.]

How to Rile a Neuroscientist Modern neuroscience is happy to accept that human behavior is the product of a probabilistically determined system, which is guided by experience. But how is ...

epub |eng | 2010-03-08 | Author:Stephen S. Hall [Hall, Stephen S.]

CHAPTER TEN PATIENCE Temptation, Delayed Gratification, and the Biology of Learning to Wait for Larger Rewards The ego isn’t an organ that might sit in a central place like Descartes’s ...

azw3 |eng | 2011-05-03 | Author:Wallace, B. Alan & Hodel, Brian [Wallace, B. Alan]

We touched previously on research into the relationship between perception and the imagination. Studies of the brain and nervous system have revealed that in many cases the same neural systems ...

mobi |eng | 2011-05-09 | Author:Elizabeth A. Styles

The psychology of attention 112 performed task is changed. If the two tasks are resource limited, then there will be a complementary relationship between the two tasks, so that as ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-05-10 | Author:Oliver Sacks

AUDITORY EXPERIENTIAL RESPONSES TO STIMULATION. 1. A voice (14); Case 28. 2. Voices (14). 3. 1 voice (15). 4. A familiar voice (17). 5. A familiar voice (21). 6. A ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2013-05-14 | Author:Rolf Dobelli [Dobelli, Rolf]

64 How to Expose a Charlatan Forer Effect Dear reader, it may surprise you, but I know you personally. This is how I would sum you up: “You have a ...

mobi |eng | 2013-01-02 | Author:Rolf Dobelli

Document Outline Dedication Title Page Imprint Page Contents Introduction 1 WHY YOU SHOULD VISIT CEMETERIES: Survivorship Bias 2 DOES HARVARD MAKE YOU SMARTER?: Swimmer’s Body Illusion 3 WHY YOU SEE ...

epub |eng | 1988-12-31 | Author:Oliver Sacks

The child, then, is not taught grammar; nor does he learn it; he constructs it from the ‘meager and degenerate data’ at his disposal. And this would not be possible ...

epub | | 0101-01-01 | Author:Arden & Linford

c07_1 09/29/2008 159 Panic Disorder 159 Interoceptive exposure (i.e., exposure to stimuli arising within the body) should be offered after cognitive restructuring has begun (Barlow & Craske, 1994; Craske, Meadows, ...

mobi |eng | 2008-06-04 | Author:Pinker, Steven [Pinker, Steven]

A realist interpretation of conceptual metaphor casts a different light on the application of metaphor and framing to politics. True to his cognitive theory, Lakoff states that “frames trump facts” ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2012-01-04 | Author:DiSalvo, David [DiSalvo, David]

The Sway of Metaphor Whether in person or on screen, one of the strongest influences on our thinking is woven into the verbiage all of us use in discussions big ...

epub |eng | 2013-09-17 | Author:Graziano, Michael S. A. [Graziano, Michael S. A.]

11 Consciousness as Integrated Information In the previous chapter I discussed one of the most common theoretical approaches to consciousness—the social construction of consciousness. A second common theoretical approach is ...

epub |eng | 2014-05-13 | Author:Pierce Howard [Howard, Pierce]

mobi, azw3 |eng | 2011-04-29 | Author:Barbara Strauch [Strauch, Barbara]

Knowing that most new and unconventional ideas do not always find the warmest of receptions, I asked Dr. Katzman if he recalled the response of other scientists at the time. ...