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  • Perspectives on Perception and Action

    Series series Psychology Library Editions: Cognitive Science
    Originally published in 1987, this title aimed to present an eclectic and biased account of the status of perception-action relationships in various fields at the time. The chapters can be divided into three sections. The first focuses on motor control, a neglected topic in the past and hence deserving the role of the starting point of this volume. In addition motor control provides a good ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Interlimb Coordination

    Neural, Dynamical, and Cognitive Constraints

    This comprehensive edited treatise discusses the neurological, physiological, and cognitive aspects of interlimb coordination. It is unique in promoting a multidisciplinary perspective through introductory chapter contributions from experts in the neurosciences, experimental and developmental psychology, and kinesiology. Beginning with chapters defining the neural basis of interlimb coordination ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • Motor Behavior

    Programming, Control, and Acquisition

    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    In recent years there has been steadily increasing interest in motor behavior and a growing awareness that a person not only has to know what to do in a particular situation, but also how to do it. The question of how actions are performed is of central concern in the area of motor control. This volume provides an advanced-level treatment of some of the main issues. Experiments concerned with ... Read more

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    Basic and Applied Studies of Spontaneous Expression Using the Facial Action Coding System (FACS)

    Series series Series in Affective Science
    While we have known for centuries that facial expressions can reveal what people are thinking and feeling, it is only recently that the face has been studied scientifically for what it can tell us about internal states, social behavior, and psychopathology. Today's widely available, sophisticated measuring systems have allowed us to conduct a wealth of new research on facial behavior that has ... Read more

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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

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  • A Universe Of Consciousness

    How Matter Becomes Imagination

    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

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  • Wet Mind

    The New Cognitive Neuroscience

    How do our brains allow us to recognize objects and locate them accurately in space, use mental imagery to remember yesterday's breakfast, read, understand speech, learn to dance, and recall a new telephone number? Recent breakthroughs in brain scanning and computing techniques have allowed researchers to plumb the secrets of the healthy brain's operation; simultaneously, much new information has ... Read more

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  • Eye Tracking

    A comprehensive guide to methods and measures

    We make 3-5 eye movements per second, and these movements are crucial in helping us deal with the vast amounts of information we encounter in our everyday lives. In recent years, thanks to the development of eye tracking technology, there has been a growing interest in monitoring and measuring these movements, with a view to understanding how we attend to and process the visual information we ... Read more

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  • Rhythm, Music, and the Brain

    Scientific Foundations and Clinical Applications

    by Michael Thaut ...
    Series series Studies on New Music Research
    With the advent of modern cognitive neuroscience and new tools of studying the human brain "live," music as a highly complex, temporally ordered and rule-based sensory language quickly became a fascinating topic of study. The question of "how" music moves us, stimulates our thoughts, feelings, and kinesthetic sense, and how it can reach the human experience in profound ways is now measured with ... Read more

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  • Development of Perception in Infancy

    The Cradle of Knowledge Revisited

    The developing infant can accomplish all important perceptual tasks that an adult can, albeit with less skill or precision. Through infant perception research, infant responses to experiences enable researchers to reveal perceptual competence, test hypotheses about processes, and infer neural mechanisms, and researchers are able to address age-old questions about perception and the origins of ... Read more

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  • Roots of Neuro-Linguistic Programming

    Intended to be an overall reference guide to all aspects of NLP theory and practice, Roots of Neuro-Linguistic Programming provides much of the important scientific background information that is not covered in the other “how-to” books written about Neuro-Linguistic Programming. This information is used to give important insights into how and why the specific NLP techniques work so effectively ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Language in Our Brain

    The Origins of a Uniquely Human Capacity

    A landmark account of the neurobiological basis of language—arguing that species-specific brain differences may be at the root of the human capacity for language.Language makes us human. It is an intrinsic part of us, although we seldom think about it. Language is also an extremely complex entity with subcomponents responsible for its phonological, syntactic, and semantic aspects. In this landmark ... Read more

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