Cognitive Psychology
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2007-07-01 | Author:Gerd Gigerenzer

Since the first reason already allows for a decision, the search for further information is stopped, all other potential reasons are ignored, and the parents go for alternative A. On ...
( Category: Anatomy March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-03-02 | Author:Jeremy Narby

TRANSFORMERS AND TRANSFORMATION kept cropping up during this investigation. My hunch is that part of nature’s essence is to transform itself, to evolve. The beings of this world seem driven ...
( Category: Shamanism March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2008-06-23 | Author:Gazzaniga, Michael S. [Gazzaniga, Michael S.]

Does Music Affect Our Thinking Abilities? Spatial abilities are used to create, think of, remember, and change visual images in one’s mind. For instance, looking at a two-dimensional map and ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-11-21 | Author:Terrence W. Deacon

AUTOGENS This complementarity of morphodynamic processes can produce far more than merely the creation of a kind of molecular bottle. Their reciprocity produces a special kind of emergent stability, unavailable ...
( Category: Phenomenology March 25,2014 )
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2006-01-02 | Author:Douglas R. Hofstadter

Entwined Feedback Loops To explore in a concrete fashion the idea of two strange loops coexisting in one head, let’s start with a mild variation on our old TV metaphor. ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-03-01 | Author:Norman Doidge

What these “imaginary” experiments show is how truly integrated imagination and action are, despite the fact that we tend to think of imagination and action as completely different and subject ...
( Category: Neurology March 25,2014 )
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2011-06-14 | Author:Tali Sharot

The “Survivor” Dilemma The answer is complex. This is because the value of anticipation is not the only factor that determines when we decide to indulge. There is at least ...
( Category: General March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2002-10-18 | Author:Jeffrey M. Schwartz

The motor cortex, you’ll recall, is arranged like a little homunculus. But it is hardly a static layout. From day to day and even moment to moment, the motor cortex ...
( Category: Neuropsychology March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-12-01 | Author:Iain McGilchrist

THE ROMANS Most of the great legacy of Rome's literature belongs to the Augustan era, the first century BC, with Virgil, Horace, Ovid, Propertius and Catullus all writing during a ...
( Category: Anatomy March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-01 | Author:Robert Trivers

THE US APPROACH TO SAFETY HELPS CAUSE 9/11 The tragedy of 9/11 had many fathers. But few have been as consistent in this role as the airlines themselves, at least ...
( Category: Developmental Biology March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-08-18 | Author:Brock L. Eide; Fernette Eide

CHAPTER 21 The Advantages of D-Strengths The first time we spoke with Sarah she quickly informed us, “I’m going to tell you everything as a story, because that’s how I ...
( Category: Neuropsychology March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1999-01-28 | Author:Steven Pinker

Most people choose either the D card or the D card and the 3 card. The correct answer is D and 7. “P implies Q” is false only if P ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2003-10-01 | Author:Michael Shermer

Campbell’s theory, as described in his 1972 Myths to Live By, is that myths serve four functions: (1) mystical, which “serves to awaken and maintain the individual sense of awe ...
( Category: Social Psychology & Interactions March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-01-02 | Author:Maria Konnikova

Distancing Through Actual Distance And what if, like Watson, you simply can’t fathom doing something that would enable you to think of something else, even if you have all of ...
( Category: Biology March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-10-08 | Author:Daniel Goleman

IN THE MENTAL GYM Think of attention as a mental muscle that we can strengthen by a workout. Memorization works that muscle, as does concentration. The mental analog of lifting ...
( Category: Cognitive March 25,2014 )