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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “dieter hillert”
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  • The Birth of Language

    by Dieter Hillert ...
    The Birth of Language traces the gradual evolution of human language over two million years, uncovering the intricate interplay between biological adaptations and cultural innovations. It distinguishes language from speech showing how both emerged as distinct, yet intertwined processes shaped by specialized brain networks. The book engages with the ongoing scholarly debate on language origins, ... Read more

    $93.99 CAD

  • The Nature of Language

    Evolution, Paradigms and Circuits

    by Dieter Hillert ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    The Nature of Language addresses one of the most fundamental questions of mankind: how did language evolve, and what are the neurobiological and cognitive foundations of language processing? These questions are explored from different perspectives to discuss the building blocks of language evolution and how they developed in the way they can be found in modern humans. Primarily, neural mapping ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

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  • Cerebral Visual Impairment in Children

    Visuoperceptive and Visuocognitive Disorders

    by Josef Zihl, Gordon N. Dutton ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    Cerebral visual disorders have far-reaching consequences for child development. These have profound adverse effects on children’s education and success in school and also in later life, but, unfortunately, cerebral visual disorders often remain undiagnosed and untreated in the pediatric population. This book provides a state-of-the-art account of what is known about the development and disorders ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Words as Social Tools: An Embodied View on Abstract Concepts

    by Anna M. Borghi, Ferdinand Binkofski ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    How are abstract concepts and words represented in the brain? That is the central question addressed by the authors of “Words as Social Tools: An Embodied View on Abstract Concepts”. First, they focus on the difficulties in defining what abstract concepts and words are, and what they mean in psycholinguistic research. Then the authors go on to describe and critically discuss the main theories on ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • The Varieties of Orthographic Knowledge

    II: Relationships to Phonology, Reading, and Writing

    Edited by V.W. Berninger ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    The role of orthography in reading and writing is not a new topic of inquiry. For example, in 1970 Venezky made a seminal contribution with The Structure of English Orthography in which he showed how both sequential redundancy (probable and permissible letter sequences) and rules of letter-sound correspondence contribute to orthographic structure. In 1972 Kavanagh and Mattingly edited Language by ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • Handbook of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry

    Edited by Hoyle Leigh, Jon Streltzer ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This updated resource refines and expands on both the core concepts and the real-world practice of consultation-liaison psychiatry in medical settings. New and revised chapters provide background and basics and describe CL psychiatry approaches to managing a wide array of common conditions, including heart disease, dementia, anxiety and depressive disorders, alcohol and substance use problems, and ... Read more

    $205.99 CAD

  • Making a Scientific Case for Conscious Agency and Free Will

    by William R. Klemm ...
    Making a Scientific Case for Conscious Agency and Free Will makes a series of arguments that certain human behaviors are impossible to explain in the absence of free will, and that free will emerges from materialistic processes of brain function. It outlines future directions for neuroscience studies that can harness emerging technologies and tools for systems-level analysis. All humans have the ... Read more

    $44.99 CAD

  • The Experimental Investigation of Meaning

    A Review of the Literature

    by Marjorie Broer Creelman ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)

    $64.99 CAD

  • Storage and Computation in the Language Faculty

    Edited by S.G. Nooteboom, F. Weerman, F.N.K Wijnen ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Every now and again I receive a lengthy manuscript from a kind of theoretician known to psychiatrists as the "triangle people" - kooks who have independently discovered that everything in the universe comes in threes (solid , liquid, gas; protons, neutrons, electrons; the Father, the Son, the Holy Ghost ; Moe, Larry, Curly; and so on) . At the risk of sounding like a triangle person, let me ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Cognitive Science Perspectives on Verb Representation and Processing

    Edited by Roberto G. de Almeida, Christina Manouilidou ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    Verbs play an important role in how events, states and other “happenings” are mentally represented and how they are expressed in natural language. Besides their central role in linguistics, verbs have long been prominent topics of research in analytic philosophy—mostly on the nature of events and predicate-argument structure—and a topic of empirical investigation in psycholinguistics, mostly on ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Attention and Vision in Language Processing

    Edited by Ramesh Kumar Mishra, Narayanan Srinivasan, Falk Huettig ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the nature of attentional and visual processes involved in language comprehension. Key concerns include how linguistic and non-linguistic processes jointly determine language comprehension and production and how the linguistic system interfaces with perceptual systems and attention.Language scientists have traditionally considered language in ... Read more

    $154.99 CAD

  • Morphology, Phonology, and Aphasia

    Edited by Jean-Luc Nespoulous, Pierre Villiard ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    Neuropsycholinguistics - the interaction between linguistics, psycholinguistics, and aphasiology - has, over the past two decades, established itself as a multidisciplinary science worthy of its recent attention in Drs. Nespoulous and Villiard's Morphology, Phonology and Aphasia. In this new volume in the Springer Series in Neuropsychology, the editors have most successfully developed a ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD