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  • The Case for Mental Imagery

    by Stephen M. Kosslyn, William L. Thompson, Giorgio Ganis ...
    Series series Oxford Psychology Series
    When we try to remember whether we left a window open or closed, do we actually see the window in our mind? If we do, does this mental image play a role in how we think? For almost a century, scientists have debated whether mental images play a functional role in cognition. In The Case for Mental Imagery, Stephen Kosslyn, William Thompson, and Giorgio Ganis present a complete and unified argument ... Read more

    $45.59 CAD

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  • Reading in the Brain

    The New Science of How We Read

    by Stanislas Dehaene ...
    A renowned cognitive neuroscientist?s fascinating and highly informative account of how the brain acquires readingHow can a few black marks on a white page evoke an entire universe of sounds and meanings? In this riveting investigation, Stanislas Dehaene provides an accessible account of the brain circuitry of reading and explores what he calls the ?reading paradox?: Our cortex is the product of ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • Surfing Uncertainty

    Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind

    by Andy Clark ...
    How is it that thoroughly physical material beings such as ourselves can think, dream, feel, create and understand ideas, theories and concepts? How does mere matter give rise to all these non-material mental states, including consciousness itself? An answer to this central question of our existence is emerging at the busy intersection of neuroscience, psychology, artificial intelligence, and ... Read more

    $21.59 CAD

  • A Universe Of Consciousness

    How Matter Becomes Imagination

    by Giulio Tononi, Gerald M. Edelman ...
    What goes on in our head when we have a thought? Why do the physical events that occur inside a fistful of gelatinous tissue give rise to the world of conscious experience? In The Universe of Consciousness , Gerald Edelman and Giulio Tononi present for the first time a full-scale theory of consciousness based on direct observation of the human brain in action. Their pioneering work, presented here ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Psychology of Reading

    2nd Edition

    by Keith Rayner, Alexander Pollatsek, Jane Ashby, Charles Clifton Jr. ...
    Reading is a highly complex skill that is prerequisite to success in many societies in which a great deal of information is communicated in written form. Since the 1970s, much has been learned about the reading process from research by cognitive psychologists. This book summarizes that important work and puts it into a coherent framework.The book’s central theme is how readers go about extracting ... Read more

    $118.17 CAD

  • The Feeling Brain

    Selected Papers on Neuropsychoanalysis

    by Mark Solms ...
    Series series The Psychoanalytic Ideas Series
    This book focuses on the matter of neuropsychoanalysis. It shows how the neuropsychoanalytic approach makes it possible to begin to locate within the tissues of the brain some of the metapsychological abstractions that Sigmund Freud derived from his work with purely psychiatric disorders. ... Read more

    $67.32 CAD

  • The Feeling Body

    Affective Science Meets the Enactive Mind

    by Giovanna Colombetti ...
    A proposal that extends the enactive approach developed in cognitive science and philosophy of mind to issues in affective science.In The Feeling Body, Giovanna Colombetti takes ideas from the enactive approach developed over the last twenty years in cognitive science and philosophy of mind and applies them for the first time to affective science—the study of emotions, moods, and feelings. She ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Cognition

    by Arnold Lewis Glass ...
    Drawing on a modern neurocognitive framework, this full-color textbook introduces the entire field of cognition through an engaging narrative. Emphasizing the common neural mechanisms that underlie all aspects of perception, learning, and reasoning, the text encourages students to recognize the interconnectivity between cognitive processes. Elements of social psychology and developmental ... Read more

    $83.19 CAD

  • The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness

    Edited by Susan Schneider, Max Velmans ...
    Updated and revised, the highly-anticipated second edition of The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness offers a collection of readings that together represent the most thorough and comprehensive survey of the nature of consciousness available today.Features updates to scientific chapters reflecting the latest research in the fieldIncludes 18 new theoretical, empirical, and methodological chapters ... Read more

    $70.99 CAD

  • Encyclopedia of Consciousness

    Edited by William P. Banks ...
    Consciousness has long been a subject of interest in philosophy and religion but only relatively recently has it become subject to scientific investigation. Now, more than ever before, we are beginning to understand this mental state. Developmental psychologists understand when we first develop a sense of self; neuropsychologists see which parts of the brain activate when we think about ourselves ... Read more

    $883.19 CAD

  • The Psychological Construction of Emotion

    by Joseph E. LeDoux, PhD ...
    This volume presents cutting-edge theory and research on emotions as constructed events rather than fixed, essential entities. It provides a thorough introduction to the assumptions, hypotheses, and scientific methods that embody psychological constructionist approaches. Leading scholars examine the neurobiological, cognitive/perceptual, and social processes that give rise to the experiences ... Read more

    $85.59 CAD

  • The Oxford Companion to Consciousness

    Edited by Tim Bayne, Axel Cleeremans, Patrick Wilken ...
    Consciousness is undoubtedly one of the last remaining scientific mysteries and hence one of the greatest contemporary scientific challenges. How does the brain's activity result in the rich phenomenology that characterizes our waking life? Are animals conscious? Why did consciousness evolve? How does science proceed to answer such questions? Can we define what consciousness is? Can we measure it? ... Read more

    $59.59 CAD