Behavioral Sciences
epub | | 2014-06-02 | Author:Michael C Corballis [C. Corballis, Michael]
And so language itself was born In the early stages, perhaps, stories were told as pantomimes, as people acted out their experiences. But pantomime is inefficient and often ambiguous, and ...
( Category:
Cognitive
June 3,2015 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Laurel Braitman [Braitman, Laurel]
Early Adopters in the Cuckoo’s Nest One of the first nonhumans to be given psychopharmaceuticals not as a test subject but as a patient was a gorilla named Willie B. ...
( Category:
Animal Psychology
May 26,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-17 | Author:Peter C. Whybrow [Whybrow, Peter C.]
IDEALLY, FORMAL EDUCATION is an extension of early parenting. It is a process that should harness the young student’s maturational drive to forge and hone the adaptive skills that will ...
( Category:
Neurology
May 25,2015 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Crawford, Matthew B. [Crawford, Matthew B.]
JUSTIFICATION THROUGH CONFRONTATION Consider the case of a motorcycle mechanic. In handing a labor bill to a customer, I make a claim for the value of what I have done, ...
( Category:
Cognitive
May 25,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2006-08-02 | Author:Frans de Waal [Waal, Frans de]
MINGLING AT THE BORDER Does the fact that one of our closest relatives kills its neighbors mean that, as a recent documentary put it, “warfare is in our DNA”? This ...
( Category:
Primatology
May 11,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-10-29 | Author:Bergen, Benjamin K. [Bergen, Benjamin K.]
CHAPTER 7 What Do Hockey Players Know? Thus far we’ve emphasized the features of embodied simulation that people have in common. But the truth is far more nuanced. People don’t ...
( Category:
Biology
May 4,2015 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2011-06-06 | Author:Nicholas Carr
THE WEB COMBINES the technology of hypertext with the technology of multimedia to deliver what’s called “hypermedia.” It’s not just words that are served up and electronically linked, but also ...
( Category:
Internet, Groupware, & Telecommunications
May 4,2015 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-02-26 | Author:Tyler May [May, Tyler]
~Chapter Twenty~ Silver and I walk out of the bar. He’s called a cab―apparently, hailing a cab isn’t his thing. They quoted us ten to fifteen minutes. I lean against ...
( Category:
Romantic Suspense
April 18,2015 )
mobi |eng | | Author:Vincent Ryan Ruggiero
10. Bill Beausay, a sports psychologist, suggests that sports be rated much as films once were: X, R, or G, depending on the amount of danger and/or violence in them. ...
( Category:
Philosophy & Social Aspects
April 5,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-01-17 | Author:Peter Gärdenfors [Gärdenfors, Peter]
Figure 9.3 Changes represented as vectors in patient space P. I now have the tools to define an event category: an event category is a structure that represents how the ...
( Category:
Cognitive Psychology
April 4,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-04-15 | Author:Winifred Gallagher [Gallagher, Winifred]
LIKE FOCUSING TOO much on the opinions of your remembering self, overlooking the effects of adaptation—the process of becoming used to a situation—can obstruct wise decisions about how to live. ...
( Category:
Applied Psychology
March 24,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Gazzaniga, Michael S.
MORE FUNDING, MORE RESEARCH, MORE KNOWLEDGE Meanwhile, many visiting researchers were making a mess of the scientific literature on split-brain patients.7 The researchers seemed not to understand how cross-cueing tricks, ...
( Category:
Biology
March 22,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jonathan Kellerman
IX It’s Both From a practical standpoint, a combination of temperament and chaotic environment is by far the best predictor of dangerousness in children, just as it is in adults. ...
( Category:
Murder & Mayhem
March 22,2015 )
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Ward, Jamie [Ward, Jamie]
Early Signs of Dementia in the Language Use of Iris Murdoch Iris Murdoch; 1919–1999. © Sophie Bassouls/Sygma/Corbis. Iris Murdoch’s last novel, Jackson’s Dilemma, was considered by both critics and her ...
( Category:
Neurology
March 21,2015 )
azw3, mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2015-02-17 | Author:John Brockman
BRAIN MODULES PATRICIA S. CHURCHLAND Philosopher, neuroscientist, University of California, San Diego; author, Touching a Nerve The concept of “module” in neuroscience (meaning sufficient for a function, given gas-in-the-tank background ...
( Category:
Cognitive
March 20,2015 )
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