Cognition and cognitive psychology Books
Columbia University Press Morphing Intelligence
Book SynopsisAcclaimed philosopher Catherine Malabou traces the modern metamorphoses of intelligence, seeking to understand how neurobiological and neurotechnological advances have transformed our present-day view. She emphasizes the intertwined, networked relationships among the biological, the technological, and the symbolic.Trade ReviewIn this remarkable book Catherine Malabou focuses on the transformations of “intelligence” as it moves from genetics to epigenetics to automatism. Historically grounded, philosophically astute, and engagingly written, this book is highly recommended for anyone interested in intelligence—artificial and natural—and in contemporary configurations of what counts as human. -- N. Katherine Hayles, author of Unthought: The Power of the Cognitive NonconsciousCatherine Malabou is one of the rare philosophers who seriously engages contemporary biological research in her explorations of human experience. In this book, she turns her attention to the core question of intelligence, and with spectacular results. At stake is the very future of human thought, and Malabou is led to reflect on machine intelligence for the first time, generating singular insights. As ever, Malabou’s prose is precise and elegant, deftly expressed in Carolyn Shread’s fluid translation. -- David Bates, coeditor of Plasticity and Pathology: On the Formation of the Neural SubjectMorphing Intelligence contains significant new developments in Malabou’s ongoing work at the intersections of philosophy and the sciences. She moves from her groundbreaking theoretical reflections on neuroplasticity and epigenetics to a philosophical confrontation with the various challenges posed by today’s emerging forms of artificial intelligence. Malabou, with her characteristic clarity and insight, radically redraws the lines between humans and machines, brains and computers. Morphing Intelligence is a major achievement and not to be missed. -- Adrian Johnston, author of A New German Idealism Hegel, Žižek, and Dialectical MaterialismHowever, the emergence of radically new forms of intelligence cannot be denied anymore. Morphing Intelligence thus makes us repeat with a sense of urgency Malabou’s original question: what should we do with our brain? * The Wire *[Malabou's] prose is precise, her research carefully articulated, and her conclusions realistic yet hopeful. -- N. Katherine Hayles, Duke University * Critical Inquiry *In Morphing Intelligence, we see Catherine Malabou’s unique ability to mend empirical studies and neuroscience with biopolitics, Hegelian dialectics, and Kantian transcendentalism, weaving an elaborate . . . arachnean matrix. * Chiasma *Table of ContentsTranslator’s Foreword: Why I Translate So Intelligently: Translation Mètis in the Era of Google TranslateAcknowledgmentsPrefaceIntroduction1. g: Intelligence and Genetic Fate2. The “Blue Brain”3. Like a Pollock PaintingConclusionPostscript to the English Translation. Artificial Intelligence: The Fourth Blow to Our NarcissismNotesIndex
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Columbia University Press Mind Beyond Brain
Book SynopsisNeuroscientist David E. Presti, with the assistance of other researchers, explores how evidence for anomalous phenomena—such as near-death experiences, apparent memories of past lives, apparitions, and other so-called psi or paranormal phenomena, including telepathy, clairvoyance, and precognition—can influence the Buddhism-science conversation.Trade ReviewBeginning with the unsettling title and continuing through chapters that take an empirical approach to exploring near-death experiences, reincarnation, mediums, and apparitions, Mind Beyond Brain asks the reader to set aside preconceptions and deeply-held assumptions in order to understand the depths of human consciousness. An engaging read, sure to give a healthy intellectual prod to even the most committed physical materialist. -- Rich Ivry, Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of California, BerkeleyMind Beyond Brain embraces and celebrates the natural sciences and their materialist frameworks but also suggests that our understanding of the natural almost certainly needs to be expanded, greatly, and that the physicalist frameworks may not be the final answer to our deepest and most difficult questions about subjectivity, mind, or consciousness. Presti is a perfect narrator, host, and guide here. He strikes a wonderful balance between embracing and celebrating the advances of the sciences and wanting them to go further still. -- Jeffrey J. Kripal, J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought, Rice UniversityThis book could open important doors for any thinking person today. It courageously provides important philosophical critiques of the dominant physical materialist worldview along with a great deal of well-documented, challenging counter-evidence drawn from all-too-neglected fields of psychological research. It is a compelling read for anyone who realizes that the acknowledgement of the active role of 'mind' (whatever it is, we all have one, and we need to get to know it better!) in nature is indispensable for the revolutionary paradigm shift that science requires to break through its current deadlock, presiding over the great extinction facing our planet and our sentient selves. -- Robert Thurman, Jey Tsong Khapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies, Columbia UniversityMind Beyond Brain explores the implications of empirical evidence challenging the prevailing view that the mind is simply a function of the brain. This timely book places the issue within the ongoing dialogue between science and Buddhism and reinstates the spirit of open-minded, radical empiricism that has always characterized science and Buddhism at their best. With their discussions of compelling evidence, examined with rigorous logic, the eminently qualified authors of this book point the way forward to catalyzing the first true revolution in the mind sciences. -- B. Alan Wallace, President, Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness StudiesAcademics, both in and outside the fields of neuroscience and Buddhism, who are interested in psi phenomena will find this publication accessible and reader-friendly, though not reductionistic in content. * Reading Religion *This fine book should be widely read and debated as we try to formulate a radical new perspective where mind is a central part of nature rather than an epiphenomenon of neural processes. This will lead to a new and constructive relationship between science and spirituality. * Paradigm Explorer *Serve[s] a useful purpose on two fronts (academic and lay-oriented), and it deserves attention from readers on both sides. * Journal of the Society for Psychical Research *This is a fascinating. . . book that treads the boundaries between science and mysticism in an enlightening way. * Magonia Review of Books *Readers who are interested in science, mind, and psi phenomena will find Mind Beyond Brain to be both fascinating and accessible. -- Renee L. Ford, Rice University * Nova Religio *Table of ContentsForeword, by Geshe Tenzin Wangyal RinpochePrologue: Deepening the Dialogue, by David E. Presti and Edward F. Kelly1. Scientific Revolution and the Mind–Matter Relation, by David E. Presti2. Near-Death Experiences, by Bruce Greyson3. Reports of Past-Life Memories, by Jim B. Tucker4. Mediums, Apparitions, and Deathbed Experiences, by Emily Williams Kelly5. Paranormal Phenomena, the Siddhis, and an Emerging Path Toward Reconciliation of Science and Spirituality, by Edward F. Kelly6. An Expanded Conception of Mind, by David E. PrestiNotesBibliographyAcknowledgmentsContributorsIndex
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Columbia University Press Partial Truths
Book SynopsisJames C. Zimring argues that many of the mistakes that the human mind consistently makes boil down to misperceiving fractions. Blending key scientific research in cognitive psychology with accessible real-life examples, Partial Truths helps readers spot the fallacies lurking in everyday information.Trade ReviewIn this brilliant follow up to What Science Is and How It Really Works, James Zimring engages the reader in a kind of detective story about the classic mistakes of human reasoning, due to our innumeracy. From bad social policy to pandemics to terrorism, he shows how human decision making often gets it so wrong. What I loved most about Partial Truths though is that he didn't just establish that we make errors, but why. This amounts to a handy, insightful, eminently readable guide to the intricate evolution of the human mind itself. If you enjoyed Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow, you'll love this book. -- Lee McIntyre, author of How to Talk to a Science Denier: Conversations with Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy ReasonUsing the simple notion of a fraction as a lens, James Zimring insightfully discusses a remarkable variety of issues from cognitive psychology to New Age beliefs to misunderstandings in politics. Thoughtful and wide-ranging. -- John Allen Paulos, Temple University, and author of A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper and InnumeracyIn Partial Truths, Zimring offers an entertaining and illuminating look at how we all misunderstand—and how the media and politicians misrepresent, and even scientists sometimes distort—the numbers and data that underlie so much of our conventional wisdom. -- David Zweig, author of Invisibles: The Power of Anonymous Work in an Age of Relentless Self-PromotionZimring’s book Partial Truths takes a walk through the various ways human cognition fails when dealing with numbers, probabilities, risk, and assessing evidence. Along the way, Zimring takes us through a bestiary of fascinating case studies both historical and modern. His clear prose illuminates the ways that politicians take advantage of our cognitive shortcomings, the ways that numbers mislead us in everyday life, and what this means for important social topics like racialized criminal justice, war mongering, and public belief in science. While Zimring follows previous authors in advocating for improved information literacy, he takes a more measured approach. Zimring is admirably aware of the ways that human cognition is hard to change, and recognizes that sometimes our reasoning biases actually benefit us, even as he helps the reader see these biases more clearly. A great book for those grappling with the confusion of our modern information environments. -- Cailin O'Connor, author of The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs SpreadNumbers become far more than abstractions in the capable hands of James Zimring. I learned something fascinating and enlightening on nearly every page of Partial Truths – about politics, social policy, economics, cultural choices, criminal justice, and much more. -- Steven Lubet, author of Interrogating Ethnography: Why Evidence MattersZimring does a great job breaking down complex theories of statistics and mathematical equations into relatable stories and examples. His perception… is fascinating. * AIPT *Partial Truths is a book to read through very carefully and then keep next to your desk. . . . Let’s all keep help like [this] close at hand at least until the next time our prejudices are about to make us decide wrongly or vote stupidly. * Forbes *As mathematics (or mathematics adjacent) treatises go Partial Truths is as reader-friendly and interesting as they come. * Brain Drain Blog *The book is easy to read, has entertaining examples, and no math is required. This book should be required reading for all. * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I. The Problem of Misperception1. The Fraction Problem2. How Our Minds Fractionate the World3. Confirmation Bias: How Your Mind Filters Evidence Based on Preexisting Beliefs4. Bias with a Cherry on Top: Cherry-Picking the DataPart II. The Fraction Problem in Different Arenas5. The Criminal Justice System6. The March to War7. Patterns in the Static8. Alternative and New Age Beliefs9. The Appearance of Design in the Natural World10. The Hard SciencesPart III. Reversing Misperception11. How Misperceiving the Fraction Can Be Advantageous12. Can We Solve the Problems with Human Perception and Reasoning and Should We Even Try?NotesBibliographyIndex
£58.77
Columbia University Press Partial Truths
Book SynopsisJames C. Zimring argues that many of the mistakes that the human mind consistently makes boil down to misperceiving fractions. Blending key scientific research in cognitive psychology with accessible real-life examples, Partial Truths helps readers spot the fallacies lurking in everyday information.Trade ReviewIn this brilliant follow up to What Science Is and How It Really Works, James Zimring engages the reader in a kind of detective story about the classic mistakes of human reasoning, due to our innumeracy. From bad social policy to pandemics to terrorism, he shows how human decision making often gets it so wrong. What I loved most about Partial Truths though is that he didn't just establish that we make errors, but why. This amounts to a handy, insightful, eminently readable guide to the intricate evolution of the human mind itself. If you enjoyed Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow, you'll love this book. -- Lee McIntyre, author of How to Talk to a Science Denier: Conversations with Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy ReasonUsing the simple notion of a fraction as a lens, James Zimring insightfully discusses a remarkable variety of issues from cognitive psychology to New Age beliefs to misunderstandings in politics. Thoughtful and wide-ranging. -- John Allen Paulos, Temple University, and author of A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper and InnumeracyIn Partial Truths, Zimring offers an entertaining and illuminating look at how we all misunderstand—and how the media and politicians misrepresent, and even scientists sometimes distort—the numbers and data that underlie so much of our conventional wisdom. -- David Zweig, author of Invisibles: The Power of Anonymous Work in an Age of Relentless Self-PromotionZimring’s book Partial Truths takes a walk through the various ways human cognition fails when dealing with numbers, probabilities, risk, and assessing evidence. Along the way, Zimring takes us through a bestiary of fascinating case studies both historical and modern. His clear prose illuminates the ways that politicians take advantage of our cognitive shortcomings, the ways that numbers mislead us in everyday life, and what this means for important social topics like racialized criminal justice, war mongering, and public belief in science. While Zimring follows previous authors in advocating for improved information literacy, he takes a more measured approach. Zimring is admirably aware of the ways that human cognition is hard to change, and recognizes that sometimes our reasoning biases actually benefit us, even as he helps the reader see these biases more clearly. A great book for those grappling with the confusion of our modern information environments. -- Cailin O'Connor, author of The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs SpreadNumbers become far more than abstractions in the capable hands of James Zimring. I learned something fascinating and enlightening on nearly every page of Partial Truths – about politics, social policy, economics, cultural choices, criminal justice, and much more. -- Steven Lubet, author of Interrogating Ethnography: Why Evidence MattersZimring does a great job breaking down complex theories of statistics and mathematical equations into relatable stories and examples. His perception… is fascinating. * AIPT *Partial Truths is a book to read through very carefully and then keep next to your desk. . . . Let’s all keep help like [this] close at hand at least until the next time our prejudices are about to make us decide wrongly or vote stupidly. * Forbes *As mathematics (or mathematics adjacent) treatises go Partial Truths is as reader-friendly and interesting as they come. * Brain Drain Blog *The book is easy to read, has entertaining examples, and no math is required. This book should be required reading for all. * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I. The Problem of Misperception1. The Fraction Problem2. How Our Minds Fractionate the World3. Confirmation Bias: How Your Mind Filters Evidence Based on Preexisting Beliefs4. Bias with a Cherry on Top: Cherry-Picking the DataPart II. The Fraction Problem in Different Arenas5. The Criminal Justice System6. The March to War7. Patterns in the Static8. Alternative and New Age Beliefs9. The Appearance of Design in the Natural World10. The Hard SciencesPart III. Reversing Misperception11. How Misperceiving the Fraction Can Be Advantageous12. Can We Solve the Problems with Human Perception and Reasoning and Should We Even Try?NotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Illinois Press Visual Alterity
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Visual Alterity offers a theoretically sophisticated and incisive analysis of seeing, apprehending difference and moving image technology that challenges long-established assumptions. Kaleidoscopic in scope and deft in argument, Randall Halle’s pathbreaking book makes an important contribution to the fields of visual and alterity studies."--Daniela Berghahn, author of Far-Flung Families in Film: The Diasporic Family in Contemporary European Cinema
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Indiana University Press The Kindertransport
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewHighly recommended. * Choice *This review cannot do justice to the depth of material that Craig-Norton offers and the way she balances the experiences of all involved, especially those whose actions and feelings have been ignored in the past. Anyone interested in learning the real history of what occurred in England – the good and the bad – should read The Kindertransport. * The Reporter Group *It is an unflinching portrayal–enhanced by the judicious use of photographs and other illustrations–of the immediate and the lasting impacts of the transport on those involved and on subsequent generations. As such, this book deserves to be widely read. -- John Privilege - Ulster University * HOLOCAUST AND GENOCIDE STUDIES *Jennifer Craig-Norton's The Kindertransport is the latest of such books that attempt to provide a counternarrative to self-congratulatory understandings of the Kindertransport. Powerfully, Craig-Norton concludes that the celebratory and the critical should not be mutually exclusive, and that both the positives and negatives of this history should be acknowledged. -- Stephanie Homer * H-Judaic *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviations Manuscript NotesPrologueIntroduction 1. The Organizations 2. The Carers 3. The Children 4. The Parents Conclusion: Contesting Memory Bibliography Index
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University of Texas Press Understanding Indian Movies
Book SynopsisA cultural-cognitive analysis of Indian cinema intended to increase understanding and appreciation of Indian films in the English-speaking world.Trade Review"Hogan achieves a minor miracle in applying his deep knowledge of classical Indian thought--about emotions and vision and narrative--to the Indian films that he is so clearly mad about, films that run the gamut from high art to pop culture, Muslim and Hindu, in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu, and English--all sorts of films. The result is a delightfully readable book that will explain much about Indian films to people who thought they knew all about them, and will make many people who thought they never wanted to see an Indian film start watching them." --Wendy Doniger, Mircea Eliade Professor of the History of Religions, University of Chicago, and author of The Woman Who Pretended To Be Who She Was "The Bollywood musical is one of the most influential cultural phenomena of our time. Patrick Hogan provides a crisp and original analysis of this art form from a cognitive point of view." --Jamshed Bharucha, Provost and Senior Vice President; Professor in the Departments of Music, Psychology, and Neuroscience; Tufts University "Having a passing acquaintance with Bollywood has become a mark of hipness among Hollywood filmmakers, who have plundered Bollywood's imagery and energy for commercials, music videos. and feature films. But few have more than a superficial grasp of this vast cinematic landscape, which is why Pat Hogan's Understanding Indian Movies could not have arrived at a more perfect time. What distinguishes Understanding Indian Movies is Hogan's genuine enthusiasm for the films and his eagerness to invite you into this world. Hogan draws many disciplines into play here, but he is particular adept at describing how a film's mise-en-scene, editing, and music provoke the viewer's imagination. Above all, the pleasure Hogan derives from his subject is evident on every page, and it is positively contagious." --Ken Kwapis, Director of He's Just Not That Into You and The Office "In making his ambitious argument, Hogan provides startlingly original insights into the way in which cinema--and more particularly Indian cinema--works. Hogan writes in a confident but also careful style. His lucidity is a welcome strength of his book." --S. Shankar, Professor of English and Director of the Center for South Asian Studies, University of Hawaii at ManoaTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction. Indian Movies and the People Who Love Them: Universality and Cultural Particularity in the Cinema Chapter One. From Mythical Romances to Historical Sacrifices: Universal Stories in South Asia (Ardhangini, Baaz, and The Terrorist) Chapter Two. The Film and the World: Global Themes, Local Movies (Nishant and Sholay) Chapter Three. Once More, with Feeling: Human Emotions and Cultural Imagination (Mother India, Bandit Queen, and Shree 420) Chapter Four. "So, What's the Deal with All the Singing?": The Cognitive Universality of the Hindi Musical (Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham . . .) Chapter Five. Seeing Indian Style: The Brain and Its Visual Culture (Umrao Jaan and Fire) Afterword. On Watching Indian Movies Notes Bibliography Index
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WW Norton & Co Ebook Folder for ZAPS 2.0
Book Synopsis
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WW Norton & Co Complex Integration of Multiple Brain Systems in
Book SynopsisEnabling patients’ minds to change the structure of their brains.
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WW Norton & Co Eight Key Brain Areas of Mental Health and
Book SynopsisBridging the gap between neuroscience and clinical therapy.
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Working Memory and Academic Learning
Book SynopsisEquipping school and child psychologists, and neuropsychologists with critical information on the role of working memory in learning and achievement, Working Memory and Academic Learning offers guidance on assessment tools, interventions, and current evidence-based best practices. Its specific, step-by-step guidance and hands-on case studies enables you to identify how working memory relates to academic attainment and how to apply this knowledge in professional practice.Trade Review"…it is a gold mine of useful and interesting information for anyone who works with children experiencing academic difficulties, including specific learning disabilities involving oral language, reading and mathematics. Working Memory presents a good summary of current models of working memory and its relationship to other cognitive systems, including long-term memory." (PsycCRITIQUES, February 18th, 2009)Table of ContentsForeword Elaine Fletcher-Janzen xiii Preface xvii Acknowledgments xxi CHAPTER 1 Introduction and Overview 1 What is Working Memory? 2 Working Memory versus Short-Term Memory 3 Controversies Surrounding Working Memory 4 Working Memory Measurement 5 Compatibility with Response-to-Intervention 6 Interventions for Working Memory 7 Learning Objectives 8 CHAPTER 2 Theories and Models of Working Memory 10 Information Processing Model 11 The Atkinson-Shiffrin Model 12 Levels-of-Processing Model 14 Baddeley’s Model 14 Contributions from Daneman and Carpenter 26 Kane and Engle’s Executive Attention Model 27 Cowan’s Embedded-Process Model 29 Oberauer’s Facet Theory 32 Long-Term Working Memory 33 Neuropsychological Evidence 35 The Controversy Over Working Memory Capacity 40 CHAPTER 3 An Integrated Model of Working Memory 49 The Structure of the Integrated Model 50 Definition of Working Memory 57 Descriptions of Memory Components 58 Capacity of Working Memory Operations 60 Caveat 61 Key Points 62 CHAPTER 4 Working Memory Development and Related Cognitive Processes 63 Development of Working Memory Capacity 64 Long-Term Memory 71 Expertise and Automatization 76 Deficit Models 76 Relations with Other Cognitive Processes 77 Disorders and Conditions with Working Memory Deficits 86 Conclusions and Implications 90 CHAPTER 5 Working Memory and Academic Learning 92 Working Memory and Learning Disabilities 95 Working Memory and Oral Language 97 Oral Language Disabilities 99 Working Memory and Reading 100 Working Memory and Mathematics 112 Working Memory and Written Language 120 Implications for Assessment, Instruction, and Intervention 121 CHAPTER 6 Working Memory Assessment Strategies 126 Working Memory Assessment Challenges 128 Distinguishing Between Short-Term and Working Memory Measures 131 Short-Term and Working Memory Testing Paradigms 132 Hypothesis-Driven Assessment of Working Memory 140 Multimethod Assessment of Working Memory 145 Reviewing Records for History 145 Interviews 146 Observations 149 Cross-Battery and Selective Testing 151 Assessment Recommendations for Specific Disabilities 155 General Guidelines for Interpreting Test Scores 156 Analysis of Working Memory Test Scores 161 Interpretation of Working Memory Assessment Results 168 The Use of Nonstandardized Working Memory Measures 173 Key Points 174 CHAPTER 7 Using Cognitive Scales to Assess Working Memory 176 Cattell-Horn-Carroll (CHC) Theory and Working Memory 176 General Guidelines for Selecting Working Memory Subtests 178 General Guidelines for Administering Working Memory Subtests 179 Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales-Fifth Edition (SB5) 180 Differential Ability Scales-Second Edition (DAS-II) 183 Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children-Second Edition (KABC-II) 187 Cognitive Assessment System (CAS) 191 Woodcock-Johnson III Tests of Cognitive Abilities (WJ III COG) 195 Universal Nonverbal Intelligence Test (UNIT) 199 The Wechsler Scales 201 WISC-IV Integrated 203 The NEPSY-II: A Developmental Neuropsychological Assessment 212 Key Points 215 CHAPTER 8 Assessing Working Memory with Memory Scales 217 Wechsler Memory Scales-Third Edition (WMS-III) 218 Children’s Memory Scale (CMS) 226 Test of Memory and Learning-Second Edition (TOMAL-2) 230 Wide Range Assessment of Memory and Learning-Second Edition (WRAML-2) 234 Working Memory Test Battery for Children (WMTB-C) 238 Automated Working Memory Assessment (AWMA) 243 Swanson Cognitive Processing Test (S-CPT) 246 Key Points 253 CHAPTER 9 Working Memory Interventions 258 General Approaches to Working Memory Interventions 260 General Strategy Training Procedures 262 Metacognitive Training 267 Metamemory Training 268 Working Memory Interventions 269 Mnemonics 280 Long-Term Memory Interventions 286 Phonological Processing Interventions 290 Reading Comprehension Strategies 292 Academic Skills and Automaticity 295 Working Memory Training in Children with ADHD 295 Medication 295 Computerized Working Memory Training 296 Classroom Instruction that Supports Working Memory 297 Key Points 305 CHAPTER 10 Case Studies, Reporting Results, and Recommendations 307 Applied Research Study 307 Case Studies 311 Written Interpretation of Working Memory Test Results 317 Illustrative Report 318 Oral Interpretation of Working Memory Test Results 323 Recommendations for Future Working Memory Tests 326 Appendix A Working Memory Subtests in Cognitive Scales 329 Appendix B Working Memory Assessment Plan 333 Appendix C Working Memory Analysis Worksheet 335 Appendix D Working Memory Interpretative Summary 337 Appendix E Working Memory Subtests in Memory Scales 339 Appendix F Conversion Table: Scaled Scores to Standard Scores 343 Appendix G Related Processing Subtests in Cognitive Scales 345 References 347 Index 371
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John Wiley & Sons Inc The Learning Self
Book SynopsisThis new book from the award-winning author of Psychology and Adult Learning puts the spotlight on the kind of learning that brings about significant personal change.Table of ContentsPreface vii About the Author xiii 1. Introduction 1 2. The Authentic or Real Self 17 3. The Autonomous Self 35 4. The Repressed Self 55 5. The Socially Constructed Self 73 6. The Storied Self 89 7. Knowing Oneself 107 8. Controlling Oneself 123 9. Caring for Oneself 137 10. (Re)creating Oneself 151 References 173 Index 191
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John Wiley & Sons Inc LongTerm Memory Problems in Children and
Book SynopsisThis book will be a valuable resource for psychologists and educators who work with children or adolescents who are having difficulties with memory and learning. Translating theory and research into practice is a talent that Dr. Dehn possesses and we will benefit from his professional skills. From the Foreword by Daniel C. Miller, PhD, ABPP, ABSNP, NCSP AN INDISPENSABLE GUIDE THAT EXAMINES THE EFFECT OF LONG-TERM MEMORY FUNCTIONS ON CHILDREN'S LEARNING Long-Term Memory Problems in Children and Adolescents: Assessment, Intervention, and Effective Instruction is the first book of its kind for psychologists, school psychologists, and special education teachers who need an overview of long-term memory as it relates to learning and education. It presents the best practices for assessing long-term memory functions, as well as selecting and using evidence-based instructional practices with memory-impaired students. This useful and timely guide bridges Table of ContentsForeword Daniel C. Miller xi Preface xiii Acknowledgments xvii Chapter 1 Introduction and Overview 1 Memory and Learning 4 Memory Problems 6 Applying Memory Research in the Classroom 8 Overview of the Chapters 8 Learning Objectives 10 Chapter 2 Memory Systems and Processes 13 The Flow of Information 15 Sensory Memory 16 Short-Term Memory 16 Working Memory 21 Long-Term Memory Systems 27 Long-Term Memory Processes 35 Forgetting 47 Interference 49 The Organization of Memory 51 Implications for Memory Assessment 53 Educational and Training Implications 54 Memory Fundamentals 54 Chapter 3 Memory Neuroanatomy, Development, and Dysfunction 57 The Neuroanatomy of Memory 58 Short-Term and Working Memory Structures 68 Neurological Principles of Memory 71 The Development of Long-Term Memory 72 Development of Metamemory and Effective Strategies 75 Fundamentals of Memory Development 81 Related Cognitive Processes 82 Memory Dysfunction 86 Chapter 4 Risk Factors for Memory Impairments 91 Acquired Brain Injury 94 Medical Conditions 99 Developmental Disorders 107 Mental Disorders 114 Substance Abuse 118 Findings that Apply to All At-Risk Groups 125 Assessment Implications 126 Implications for Interventions and Classroom Instruction 127 Chapter 5 Long-Term Memory Assessment Strategies 129 A Comprehensive Explicit Memory Assessment 130 Planning a Personalized Assessment 138 Cross-Battery and Selective Testing 142 Memory Assessment Challenges 143 Collecting Medical, Developmental, and Academic History 145 Interviewing Teachers, Parents, and Students 146 Observation 149 Assessment of Metamemory and Strategy Development 152 Collecting Classroom Examination Data 156 Guidelines for Administering Standardized Memory Tests 157 General Guidelines for Interpretation of Test Results 159 Analysis of Memory Test Scores 163 Specific Guidelines for Interpretation of Memory Assessment Results 168 Case Study 176 Chapter 6 Assessing Long-Term Memory With Standardized Tests 179 California Verbal Learning Test—Children’s Version (CVLT-C) 180 Children’s Memory Scale (CMS) 184 The NEPSY II 187 The Rivermead Behavioural Memory Test for Children (RBMT-C) 190 Test of Memory and Learning, Second Edition (TOMAL-2) 192 Wide Range Assessment of Memory and Learning, Second Edition (WRAML2) 196 Wechsler Memory Scale1-Fourth Edition (WMS1-IV) 200 Cognitive, Intellectual, and Achievement Batteries 205 Other Scales With Long-Term Memory Measures 221 Chapter 7 Interventions for Memory Problems 225 Desirable Outcomes for Memory Interventions 227 Factors Related to Success 228 Concerns About Memory Interventions 230 Selecting and Designing Interventions 232 Setting Goals and Measuring Progress 233 General Memory Strategy Training Recommendations 234 Metamemory: The Cornerstone of the Intervention 235 Demonstrating the Efficacy of Memory Strategies 239 Promoting Generalization and Maintenance 241 Length of Training 242 Memory Strategies 242 Mnemonics 251 Computerized Interventions 256 Home Interventions 257 External Memory Aids 258 Psychopharmacological Treatments 260 Memory Interventions for Traumatic Brain Injury 261 Interventions for Other Disabled and At-Risk Populations 263 Matching Interventions With Memory Deficits 263 A Typical Intervention 268 Chapter 8 Classroom Instruction That Supports Memory 271 The Mnemonic Classroom 273 Metamemory Instruction 275 Instructional Practices That Enhance Memory 275 Study Skills That Enhance Memory 297 Instructional Methods for Severe Memory Impairments 299 Accommodations and Memory Aids 305 Teaching Memory Strategies 306 Teaching Mnemonics 306 Instruction That Reduces Working Memory Load 308 Summary: Long-Term Memory Principles and Recommendations for Educators 312 Chapter 9 Case Studies and Recommendations 315 Assessment Case Study 315 Intervention Case Studies 318 Illustrative Report 327 Recommendations for Future Research 332 Recommendations for Memory Test Development 333 AppendixA Memory Assessment Plan 335 Appendix B Analysis of Memory Testing Results 337 AppendixC Conversion Table: Scaled Scores to Standard Scores 339 References 341 Index 377
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Social Intelligence The New Science of Success
Book SynopsisHarvard professor and bestselling author Howard Gardner made the concept of Intelligence Quotient a part of our vocabulary. With Daniel Goleman's Emotional Intelligence, the idea entered the mainstream, becoming surprisingly popular???particularly in the business world.Table of ContentsForeword vii Acknowledgment ix Preface xi 1. A Different Kind of "Smart" 1 Old Wine in New Bottles? 3 Going Beyond IQ 6 EI, SI, or Both? 10 From Toxic to Nourishing 12 Blind Spots, Lenses, and Filters 14 Social Halitosis, Flatulence, and Dandruff 16 The "Dilbert" Factor 23 Can We Become a Socially Smarter Species? 25 S.P.A.C.E.:The Skills of Interaction 28 2. "S" Stands for Situational Awareness 33 Situational Dumbness and Numbness 34 Ballistic Podiatry: Making the Worst of a Situation 36 Reading the Social Context 38 What to Look For 40 The Proxemic Context 41 The Behavioral Context 47 The Semantic Context 51 Navigating Cultures and Subcultures 58 Codes of Conduct: Violate the Rules at Your Peril 61 Building the Skills of Situational Awareness 66 3. "P" Stands for Presence 69 Being There 70 Is Charisma Over-Rated? 72 Do Looks Matter? 75 Reading (and Shaping) the "Rules of Engagement" 75 The Ugly American Syndrome 78 More of You, Less of Me 80 A Case of Attitude 82 Building the Skills of Presence 85 4. "A" Stands for Authenticity 87 Take a Tip from Popeye 88 It's a Beautiful Day in the SI Neighborhood 90 The Snap-On Smile: Can You Fake Sincerity? 93 Left-Handed Compliments 94 The Puppy Dog Syndrome 97 Narcissism: It's Really All About Me 98 Head Games, Power Struggles, and Manipulation 102 Building the Skills of Authenticity 105 5. "C" Stands for Clarity 107 A Way with Words 108 Hoof-in-Mouth Disease: Sometimes Silence Works Best 110 Role-Speak and Real-Speak 114 Helicopter Language and Elevator Speeches 116 "Clean" Language and "Dirty" Language 119 Verbal Bludgeons 121 Taking a Brain for a Walk 125 The Power of Metaphor 128 E-Prime: the Language of Sanity 130 Building the Skills of Clarity 135 6. "E" Stands for Empathy 137 What Destroys Empathy? 138 What Builds Empathy? 142 The Platinum Rule 147 The Irony of Empathic Professions 149 L.E.A.P.S.: Empathy by Design 152 Empathy in Four Minutes 154 Building the Skills of Empathy 156 7. Assessing and Developing SI 159 AssessingYour Interaction Skills 160 Self-Awareness: Seeing Yourself as Others See You 166 Assessing Your Interaction Style: Drivers, Energizers, Diplomats, and Loners 168 The Strength-Weakness Irony 177 Priorities for Improvement 180 8. SI in the World of Work: Some Reflections 185 The Real and Legal Consequences of Social Incompetence 184 Cultures of Conflict and Craziness 187 Hierarchies,Testosterone, and Gender Politics 193 Getting it Right at Work and Wrong at Home 198 The Diversity Puzzle 200 Ritual, Ceremony, and Celebration 203 Positive Politics: Getting Ahead with Your Value System Intact 207 9. SI in Charge: Thoughts on Developing Socially Intelligent Leaders 211 The S.O.B. Factor 212 Executive Hubris: Its Costs and Consequences 216 Best Boss,Worst Boss 219 P.O.W.E.R.:Where It Comes From, How to Get It 222 How the Worst Bastards on the Planet Get and Keep Power 224 The Algebra of Influence 226 S.P.I.C.E.: Leading When You're Not In Charge 227 10. SI and Conflict: Thoughts About Getting Along 233 The Double Spiral of Conflict 234 Why Argue? 241 Crucial Conversations 243 Added Value Negotiating 246 Epilogue. SI and the Next Generation: Who's Teaching Our Kids? 253 Our Children Are Not Our Children 254 The (Only) Ten Basic News Stories 256 Anxiety Drives Attention 260 Breaking the Addiction to Television 262 The Buying of Our Babies 265 Video Games:The New Sandlot 267 Teachers, Parents, or Neither? 270 Belonging or Be Longing? 272 The S.P.A.C.E. Solution for Schools 276 A Prescription for SI at Every Age 278 Index 281 About the Author 289
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Quantitative Reasoning
Book SynopsisThis Second Edition of Quantitative Reasoning empowers students to use quantitative information to make responsible financial, environmental, and health-related decisions in their daily lives. Students develop their critical thinking skills through numerous examples, explorations, and activities featuring real data. Students use a variety of analysis throughout the text: inductive and deductive reasoning; tabular, symbolic, verbal, and graphical forms of functions and relations; graphs and pictorial representations of data; interpretations of probabilistic data; surveys and statistical studies. Sevilla and Somer''s Quantitative Reasoning, 2nd Editioncomes available with WileyPLUS, a research-based, online environment for effective teaching and learning, which takes the guesswork out of studying by providing them with a clear roadmap: what to do, how to do it, and whether they did it right. WileyPLUS sold separately from text.Table of ContentsAnnotated Contents xi Preface xvii To the Student xxiii To the Instructor xxv Acknowledgments xxvii Section I: Numerical Reasoning Topic 1: Organizing Information Pictorially Using Charts and Graphs 2 Activity 1.1: World Motor Vehicle Production: Bar Graphs and Pie Charts 27 Activity 1.2: Medical Data and Class Data: Graphs with Excel 35 Activity 1.3: SATs and the Super Bowl: Creating and Interpreting Histograms 43 Topic 2: Bivariate Data 52 Activity 2.1: Estimating Dates: Scatterplots 69 Activity 2.2: State Governors’ Salaries and Per Capita Income: More on Scatterplots 75 Topic 3: Graphs of Functions 82 Activity 3.1: Temperature Patterns: Functions and Line Graphs 105 Activity 3.2: Rates of Change and Concavity 111 Topic 4: Multiple Variable Functions 118 Activity 4.1: Blood Alcohol Levels and Credit Cards: Working with More Than Two Variables 133 Topic 5: Proportional, Linear, and Piecewise Linear Functions 140 Activity 5.1: Rates of Change and Linear Functions 159 Topic 6: Modeling with Linear and Exponential Functions 166 Activity 6.1: The Genie’s Offer: Exponential Growth and Linear Growth 185 Activity 6.2: Lines of Best Fit 191 Topic 7: Logarithms and Scientific Notation 198 Activity 7.1: Richter Scale and Logarithms 213 Activity 7.2: Estimations, Scientifc Notation, and Properties of Logarithms 219 Topic 8: Indexes and Ratings 224 Activity 8.1: Measurement Difficulties and Indexes 243 Activity 8.2: Consumer Indexes 249 Topic 9: Personal Finances 256 Activity 9.1: Mortgages 277 Topic 10: Introduction to Problem Solving 284 Activity 10.1: Savings and Loans: Problem Solving and Using Scroll Bars 299 Activity 10.2: Asking and Answering a Research Question 305 Section II: Logical Reasoning Topic 11: Decision Making 308 Activity 11.1: Ranking Cities: Ratings and Decisions 325 Topic 12: Inductive Reasoning 332 Activity 12.1: Analyzing Studies: Inductive Reasoning 345 Topic 13: Deductive Reasoning 354 Activity 13.1: Code-Breaking and Deductive Reasoning 375 Activity 13.2: Compound Statements Used in Reasoning 381 Activity 13.3: Quantified Statements and Deductive Reasoning: Direct and Indirect Reasoning 389 Topic 14: Apportionment 394 Activity 14.1: Methods of Apportionment: Quota Methods 409 Activity 14.2: Apportionment: Divisor Methods 415 Topic 15: More on Problem Solving 422 Activity 15.1: Making a Purchase Decision 433 Section III: Statistical Reasoning Topic 16: Averages and Five-Number Summary 436 Activity 16.1: Visualizing Football Scores: Measures of Center and Spread 457 Topic 17: Standard Deviation, z-Score, and Normal Distributions 462 Activity 17.1: Coins, Presidents, and Justices: Normal Distributions and z-Scores 485 Topic 18: Basics of Probability 492 Activity 18.1: Simulations 511 Activity 18.2: Finding Probabilities 517 Topic 19: Conditional Probability and Tables 522 Activity 19.1: Diagnostic Testing and Conditional Probability 543 Topic 20: Sampling and Surveys 550 Activity 20.1: Sampling and Surveys 569 Topic 21: More on Decision Making 578 Activity 21.1: To Purchase a Warranty or Not: Making a Decision 593 Appendix Excel Commands by Activity 597 Index 603
£170.96
Wiley Essentials of WMSIV Assessment
Book SynopsisSignificantly revised in 2009, the WMS-IV is now directly linked to the WAIS-IV the leading intelligence test and includes four new subtests. This latest volume in the Essentials of Psychological Assessment series, authored by the test's developers, covers every new update to the world's most widely used memory test.Table of ContentsSeries Preface xi Acknowledgments xiii One: Overview 1 Two: How to Administer the WMS-IV 25 Three: How to Score the WMS-IV 65 Four: Interpretation 83 Five: Strengths and Weaknesses of the WMS-IV 159 Six: Using WMS-IV with WAIS-IV 169 Seven: Clinical Applications of the WMS-IV 193 Eight: Illustrative Case Reports 217 References 243 Appendix 253 Annotated Bibliography 263 About the Authors 265 Author Index 267 Subject Index 271
£38.66
John Wiley & Sons Inc Reading through Colour How Coloured Filters Can
Book SynopsisThe use of coloured overlays on text can improve reading in certain individuals, including children. They have been shown to reduce fatigue and increase fluency and can be used with both dyslexic and non--dyslexic children and adults.Trade Review??wide spectrum of readership has been addressed?optometrists will welcome this concise book?? (Optician, 13th August, 2004) ??I commend it to anyone involved in working with children and adults experiencing difficulties in learning to read?? (The Psychology of Education Review, August 04)Table of ContentsAbout the Author. About this Book. Acknowledgements. Declaration. 1: Prologue - Sam's story. 2: In the beginning. 3: What is visual stress? 4: Professionals responsible for eye care and vision. 5: The eye and visual pathways. 6: Why we see the world in colour. 7: What are coloured overlays? 8: How do we know that coloured overlays work? 9: An illustrative case history: David's story. 10: How to test whether overlays will be helpful. 11: How to test using overlays: a guide for teachers. 12: Overlays and classroom management. 13: Use of computers. 14: Meares-Irlen syndrome and dyslexia. 15: Coloured glasses. 16: Why do coloured overlays and lenses work? 17: Frequently asked questions. 18: Support groups. 19: What the future should bring. 20: An Epilogue from Sam's mother. References. Index.
£51.25
John Wiley & Sons Inc Reading Assessment
Book SynopsisWritten from a strengths-based perspective, this is the first book to present a research-based, integrated review of reading, cognition, and oral language testing and assessment.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Chapter 1 Introduction 1 Chapter 2 Reading Theory and Stages of Reading Acquisition 7 Chapter 3 Oral Language 27 Chapter 4 Linguistic and Cultural Diversity 47 Chapter 5 Statistics and Test Development 59 Chapter 6 Test Administration and Report Writing 75 Chapter 7 Response to Intervention 97 Chapter 8 Role of Intellectual Assessment 119 Chapter 9 Oral Language Assessment 139 Chapter 10 Underlying Processes 163 Chapter 11 Decoding 193 Chapter 12 Comprehension 233 Chapter 13 Informal Inventories and Readability 259 Chapter 14 Written Expression and Spelling 279 Chapter 15 Last Words 307 Appendix A: Answer Key 311 Appendix B: Glossary 319 References 327 Additional Resources 359 Author Index 369 Subject Index 379
£43.16
John Wiley & Sons Inc You Cant Say That to Me
Book SynopsisYou can''t say that to me! Can''t you do anything right? I can''tbelieve you would feed that junk to your child! What is this? Anddon''t tell me it''s a casserole, I already know that. If youreally cared about me, you wouldn''t behave this way. Soundfamiliar? Each of us occasionally feels the sting of veryunpleasant language from those who are closest to us--spouses,employers, friends, relatives. But frequent and repeated use ofunanswerable questions, scalding accusations, sarcasm,insinuations, and even icy silence is more than simply unpleasant;it is abusive, destructive, and frequently leads to escalatingarguments and physical violence. Suzette Haden Elgin, creator ofthe Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense, has developed a unique andrevolutionary way to break the cycle of verbal violence andeliminate it from your life--without ruining your marriage, riskingyour job, or alienating friends or loved ones. Dr. Elgin shows youhow to neutralize verbal attacks and discourage future abusewith:Table of ContentsHow to use this Book xv Introduction 1 Why do we put up with it? 3 Your Personal Verbal Abuse Survey 6 Step 1: Recognizing the source of the problem 9 Scenario One 9 What’s going on here? 9 What goes wrong – and why? 13 What to do about it: Using Miller’s Law 17 Dialogues for analysis 19 Another look at Scenario One 21 Step 1 Backup 25 Sight Bites 29 Step 2: Recognizing the source of the solution 31 Scenario Two 31 What’s going on here? 32 The Basics – Defining our terms 34 What to do about it: Awareness 43 Another look at Scenario Two 49 Step 2 Backup 52 Sight Bites 54 Step 3: Recognizing that you already have everything you need to put an end to verbal violence in your life 56 Scenario Three 56 What’s going on here? 58 The grammar of verbal violence 67 What to do about it: choosing your communication strategy 68 Another look at Scenario Three 71 Step 3 Backup 75 Sight Bites 80 Step 4: Recognizing that you are an expert in your language 81 Scenario Four 81 What’s going on here? 83 You are an expert in your language 85 What to do about it: giving up the myths about verbal abuse 89 Another look at Scenario Four 91 Step 4 Backup 95 Sight Bites 102 Step 5: Understanding the two goals of verbal self-defense 104 Scenario Five 104 What’s going on here? 106 Why it matters: The link between verbal and physical violence 108 What to do about it: Recognizing abusive language 110 Another look at Scenario Five 116 Step 5 Backup 119 Sight Bites 122 Step 6: Deciding never to participate in verbal violence – and following through 125 Scenario Six 125 What’s going on here? 127 The problem of following through 129 What to do about it: Dealing with English verbal attack patterns 137 Another look at Scenario Six 140 Step 6 Backup 143 Sight Bites 146 Step 7 Maintaining your own healthy language environment 147 Scenario Seven 147 What’s going on here? 148 Language behavior is contagious 149 What to do about it: Using the Satir modes 151 Another look at Scenario Seven 160 Step 7 Backup 162 Sight Bites 167 Step 8: Taking responsibility for your own language and its consequences 168 Scenario Eight 168 What’s going on here? 169 What to do about it: Taking responsibility 171 One more technique: Following the language traffic rules 173 Another look at Scenario eight 177 Step 8 Backup 182 Sight Bite 183 Conclusion 185 The unifying metaphor in verbal abuse 186 What to do about it 186 Sight Bites 192 Bibliography 193 Index to backup material 203 Index 205
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Nonverbal Assessment Essentials 19 Essentials of
Book SynopsisWritten by the creators of the Nonverbal Assessment test, this quick-reference resource provides comprehensive data for performing cognitive assessments using popular nonverbal assessment tests.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Overview: Assessing Diverse Populations with Nonverbal Tests of Intelligence Chapter 2. Unidimensional Nonverbal Tests. Chapter 3. Multidimensional Nonverbal Intelligence Tests: Administration, Scoring,and Interpretation of the UNIT. Chapter 4. Multidimensional Nonverbal Intelligence Tests: Strenghts and Weaknessesand Clinical Applications of the UNIT. Chapter 5. Multidimensional Nonverbal Intelligence Tests: Administration, Scoring,and Interpretation of the Leiter-R. Chapter 6. Multidimensional Nonverbal Intelligence Tests: Strenghts and Weaknessesand Clincial Applications of the Leiter-R.
£39.56
John Wiley & Sons Inc Memory A SelfTeaching Guide Wiley SelfTeaching
Book SynopsisPart of the Wiley Self-Teaching Guide series, this book presents step-by-step methods for improving memory. Allowing readers to boost memory power and cultivate tools for remembering that will last a lifetime, this guide is the ideal accompaniment to any learning adventure.Table of ContentsIntroduction. 1 What Is Memory and What Can It Do for You? 2 The Keys to a Better Memory. 3 Improving Everyday Memory. 4 Improving Your Study Methods. 5 Learning and Remembering Foreign Languages. 6 Remembering Names and Faces. 7 Remembering Numbers. 8 Remembering Speeches. 9 Maintaining Memory as You Age. Final Exam. Glossary. Appendix 1: Associations Dealing with Memory Problems. Appendix 2: Helpful Web Sites. Appendix 3: Read More about It. References. Index.
£14.39
John Wiley & Sons Inc Increase Your Brainpower Improve Your Creativity
Book Synopsis100, 99. 5, 98. 5, 97, 95, ? What number comes next? Athletes, gymnasts and dancers strive to push their bodies to achieve maximum potential, exercising to improve suppleness, stamina and technique to be the best in their chosen field.Trade Review"…Use this book as a fun and informative way of testing, assessing, and expanding your brainpower…" (Intern, No.4, 2002)Table of ContentsIntroduction. About the Brain. Creativity. Memory. Mindstretchers. Agility of Mind. Intelligence Tests. Hints. Answers.
£6.99
John Wiley & Sons Inc KABCII Essentials Essentials of Psychological
Book SynopsisQuickly acquire the knowledge and skills you need to confidently administer, score, and interpret the KABC-II Now designed for children aged three to eighteen, the KABC-II is among the top tier of children's tests of cognitive ability.Table of ContentsSeries Preface xi One Overview 1 Two How to Administer and Score the KABC-II 33 Three How to Interpret the KABC-II: Step by Step 79 Four How to Interpret the KABC-II: Qualitative Indicators 138 Five Strengths and Weaknesses of the KABC-II 168 Six Clinical Applications of the KABC-II 176 Seven Illustrative Case Reports 282 Appendix A KABC-II Interpretive Worksheet 345 Appendix B Standard Scores Corresponding to Sums of Subtest Scaled Scores for Planned Comparison Clusters: Delayed Recall, Verbal Ability, Meaningful Stimuli, and Abstract Stimuli 358 Appendix C Standard Scores Corresponding to Sums of Subtest Scaled Scores for Planned Comparison Clusters: Problem-Solving and Memory and Learning 360 Appendix D Standard Scores Corresponding to Sums of Subtest Scaled Scores for Planned Comparison Clusters: Verbal Response, Pointing Response, Little Motor, and Gross Motor 364 Appendix E SES Norms: Converting the KABC-II Global Score of Children Ages 3–6 Years to a Percentile Rank Based on Their Socioeconomic Status 367 Appendix F SES Norms: Converting the KABC-II Global Score of Children Ages 7–18 Years to a Percentile Rank Based on Their Socioeconomic Status 368 References 369 Annotated Bibliography 387 Index 389 About the Authors 39
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Cognitive Therapy for Chronic and Persistent
Book SynopsisDemonstrates how entrenched negative thinking patterns and ongoing avoidance can be addressed to achieve significant change in many people's lives. This book is essential reading for any therapist working with these hard to help patients, such as clinical psychologists, psychiatric nurses, psychiatrists, social workers and counsellors.Table of ContentsAbout the Authors vii Preface ix Acknowledgements xv Introduction The Challenge of Persistent Depression 1 Chapter 1 The Cognitive Model of Persistent Depression 21 Chapter 2 The Foundations of Therapy: Therapeutic Relationship, Style and Structure 69 Chapter 3 Initial Assessment and Formulation 94 Chapter 4 Initiating Therapy: Socialisation and Setting Goals 137 Chapter 5 Using Standard Behavioural Techniques 171 Chapter 6 Working with Automatic Thoughts 198 Chapter 7 Recognising Underlying Beliefs and Their Effects 231 Chapter 8 Modifying Underlying Beliefs 257 Chapter 9 Working with Some Typical Themes in Persistent Depression 291 Chapter 10 Beyond Therapy: Preventing Relapse and Furthering Progress 319 Chapter 11 Delivering Treatment 341 Chapter 12 Outcomes and Processes of Therapy 354 Appendix 1 Meet the Patients 372 Appendix 2 Handouts for Patients 381 References 397 Index 407
£51.25
John Wiley & Sons Inc Psychology of Pain
Book SynopsisPain is a personal experience, which everyone encounters at some time, that for some unfortunate individuals becomes a permanent factor in their quality of life and clinical treatment. This is the first book to provide a comprehensive, integrated and accessible account of the experience of pain and its implications.Table of ContentsAbout the Author. Preface. Acknowledgements. Biological Mechanisms of Pain. Measuring Painful Sensations. Learning About Pain. Beliefs, Images and Memories of Pain. Beliefs About Control and Causation Affecting Pain andIllness. Taking the Decision. The Consultation Process. Coping with Pain. The Social Features of Treating Pain. The Way Forward. References. Index.
£73.10
John Wiley & Sons Inc Cognitive Developmental Therapy with Children
Book SynopsisThis book provides professionals with the knowledge, skills and application methods for the treatment of children using self-control therapy. It focuses on the developmental considerations necessary for the implementation of cognitive and behavioural therapies, with an emphasis on the specific skills required in the treatment of children.Table of ContentsAbout the Author. Acknowledgements. Foreword. Overview. DECISION MAKING IN ASSESSMENT FOR CHILD PSYCHOTHERAPY. Introduction: Changing the Focus in Child Psychotherapy. Obtaining Reliable Sources of Information. Evaluating Presenting Problems in Terms of Normative ChildhoodBehaviours. Decision Making on the need for Therapy. Decision Making on the Therapeutic Setting. Individual Therapy with Children: Adapting Treatment Techniques andMethods. DEVELOPING COGNITIVE THERAPY WITH CHILDREN. Introduction: The Ultimate Questions. The Link Between Cognitive Therapy and Childhood BehaviourProblems. The Roots and Development of Cognitive Therapy with Children. The Role of Developmental Level in Cognitive Therapy withChildren. Applying Cognitive Techniques to Children. Applying Cognitive Techniques to Childhood Disorders. APPLYING COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENTAL THERAPY WITH CHILDREN. Cognitive Skills Learned in Childhood. Child Development as an Outcome of Self-Control SkillAcquisition. Imparting Self-Control to Children. Self-Control Intervention Model and Clinical Applications withChildren. Epilogue: Conclusions and Future Directions. References. Index.
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Treating Complex Cases
Book SynopsisPatients with complex problems, including co-morbidity, chronicconditions, enduring vulnerabilities, psychotic conditions,persistent difficulties with social relationships and destabilisingsocial environments, are increasingly recognised as the reality ofthe therapist''s case load. The cognitive behavioural caseformulation approach can be particularly suited to the treatment ofsuch complex cases. This book brings together some of the most experienced and expertcognitive behavioural therapists to share their specialistexperience of formulation and treatment of these complex cases. Theexperienced clinician will find in these accounts: * Evidence-based approaches to assessment and formulation ofcomplex cases * A wide range of problems not restricted to disorder categories,including anger, low self-esteem, abuse and shame * A concern with the realities of clinical practice which involvescomplex cases that do not fit neatly into simple caseconceptualisations or diagnostTrade Review"...goes beyond offering helpful conceptualizations of complex problems..." (Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy) "...a very useful book..." (Behavioural & Cognitive Psychotherapy, July 2001)Table of ContentsCognitive Therapy of Social Phobia (A. Wells). Cognitive Therapy with Panic and Agoraphobia: Working with ComplexCases (A. Hackmann). The Devil is in the Detail: Conceptionalising and TreatingObsessional Problems (P. Salkovskis, et al.). Where There's a Will...Cognitive Therapy for People with ChronicDepressive Disorders (J. Scott). Cognitive Behavioural Treatment for Complicated Cases ofPost-Traumatic Stress Disorder (M. Kimble, et al.). Eating Disorders, Self-Image Disturbance and Maltreatment (R.Calam). Assessment and Formulation in the Cognitive Behavioural Treatmentof Psychosis (G. Haddock & N. Tarrier). Cognitive Behavioural Therapy of Psychosis: Complexities inEngagement and Therapy (D. Kingdon). Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Psychotic Symptoms in Schizophrenia(A. Morrison). Low Self-Esteem (M. Fennell). Shame and Humiliation in the Treatment of Complex Cases (P.Gilbert). Parasuicide (G. Sidley). Cognitive Behavioural Interventions for Anger, Aggression andViolence (K. Howells). Cognitive Behavioural Treatment of Personality Disorders (A.Freeman & J. Jackson). Schema-Focused Therapy for Personality Disorders (J. Young & W.Behary). Issues in Treating Rape and Sexual Assault (T. Weaver, etal.). Complex Relationship Cases: Conceptualisation, Assessment andTreatment (W. Halford & R. Bouma). Index.
£48.40
John Wiley & Sons Inc Outcome and Innovation in Psychological Treatment
Book SynopsisThis book provides an overview of current innovative treatments (cognitive behavior therapy, family therapy, compliance therapy, and cognitive deficits remediation), and describes how the theoretical understanding of some of the psychological factors which maintain symptoms can lead to further advances.Trade Review"... a great asset ... will indeed find valuable facts.."(Behavioural Cognitive Psychotherapy, Vol.30 2002) "...Each author's contribution illuminates the issue from aninteresting angle and in an unique way..." (Cognitive BehaviouralPsychotherapy)Table of ContentsInnovation and Outcome in Psychological Treatments forSchizophrenia: The Way Ahead? (T. Wykes, et al.). The Cognitive Origins of Schizophrenia and Prospects forIntervention (K. Nuechterlein & K. Subotnik). The Measurement of Outcome in Schizophrenia (R. Drake, etal.). Cognitive Behaviour Therapy of Schizophrenia (D. Kingdon & D.Turkington). Depression and Suicidal Thinking in Psychosis: A Cognitive Approach(M. Birchwood & Z. Iqbal). The Evaluation of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Psychosis (P.Garety, et al.). Psychological Processes and Delusional Beliefs: Implications forthe Treatment of Paranoid States (R. Bentall & P.Kinderman). The Effects of a Remediational Approach to Cognitive Therapy forSchizophrenia (W. Spaulding, et al.). Coercion, Adherence or Collaboration?: Influences on Compliancewith Medication (M. McPhillips & T. Sensky). Biobehavioural Therapy: Interactions Between Pharmacotherapy andBehavior Therapy in Schizophrenia (R. Liberman, et al.). Working with Carers: Interventions for Relative and Staff Carers ofThose who have Psychosis (E. Kuipers). Training and Dissemination: Research to Practice in InnovativePsychosocial Treatments for Schizophrenia (N. Tarrier, etal.). Outcome and Costs of Psychological Therapies in Schizophrenia (H.Brenner & M. Pfammatter). Economic Evaluation of Psychological Treatments for Schizophrenia(M. Knapp & A. Healey). Index.
£69.26
University of California Press The Future of the Self An Interdisciplinary
Book SynopsisWe live in the digital age where our sense of self and identity has moved beyond the body to encompass hardware and software. Cyborgs, online representations in social media, avatars, and virtual reality extend our notion of what it means to be human. This book looks at the progression of self from the biological to the technological using a multidisciplinary approach. It examines the notion of personhood from philosophical, psychological, neuroscience, robotics, and artificial intelligence perspectives, showing how the interface between bodies, brains, and technology can give rise to new forms of human identity. Jay Friedenberg presents the content in an organized and easy-to-understand fashion to facilitate learning. A gifted researcher, author, and classroom teacher, heis one of the most influential voices in the field of artificial psychology.Trade Review"Thanks to its critical, balanced perspective and its thoroughness, this accessible yet scholarly volume on the future of the self is valuable to specialists and generalists alike." * Technical Communications *Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgments 1 Introduction Primary Terms: Personhood, Self, and Identity The Psychology of Personhood Perspectives on Personhood Non-Western Views of Self A Few More Ideas on the Self The Artificial Self Book Overview 2 The Philosophy of Self Historical Conceptions of Personhood and Self Three Additional Philosophical Conceptions of the Self Personal Identity Knowledge of the Self Free Will and Determinism The Extended-Mind Thesis 3 The Psychology of Self Varieties of Self: The Modern Approach Psychological Theories of Self Disorders of Self 4 Brain The Neuroscience of Self Is There a Specialized Brain System for Self? One or Many Neural Selves? Neural Models of the Self Problems with the Neuroscientific Study of Self Responses to Problems with the Neuroscientific Study of Self 5 Brain + Hardware Cyborgs Prosthetics Neural Prosthetics (Brain-Machine Interfaces or Brain-Computer Interfaces) Artificial Memories Robotics 6 Brain + Software Technology Cyberpsychology Varieties of Online Behavior Video Games 7 Avatars What Is an Avatar? Avatar Typologies Avatar Behavior in the Palace Avatar Embodiment Points of View The Proteus Effect Representing and Creating the Online Self Avatars at Play Avatars and Video Role-Playing Games Avatars and Identity Avatar Case Studies The Future of Avatars 8 Virtual Worlds Augmented Reality Virtual Worlds Virtual Spaces A Brief History of Virtual Worlds Presence and the Ultimate Display A Chronology of VR Systems Second Life Avatars, Virtual Worlds, and the Digital Self Benefits of VR and Virtual Worlds Problems with VR and Virtual Worlds The Future of the Virtual World 9 Software Selves What Is Life? Artificial Life Life and Consciousness Consciousness Artificial Consciousness Is Artificial Consciousness Possible? Some Ideas Artificial Intelligence Artificial Selves as Mindclones and Bemans Digital Identity, Personhood, and Rights Human Attitudes and Behaviors toward Artificial Selves Digital Immortality 10 Conclusion Changing the Self The Future of the Self The Far Future Summary and Main Issues References Index
£64.00
University of California Press The Measurement of Psychological States Through the Content Analysis of Verbal Behavior
Book SynopsisThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1969.
£64.00
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Becoming a Skilled Reader
Book SynopsisA child must be able to do more than decode single words to become a skilled or fluent reader. This book explores the psychology of that process. It includes a summary of how children learn to read words but essentially concentrates on the development of reading comprehension.Table of Contents1. Introduction ; 2. The Skilled Adult Reader ; 3. Language Development beyond the age of five ; 4. Learning to Read Words ; 5. Learning to understand text ; 6. Educational Implications ; Afterword ; Bibliography ; Name Index ; Subject Index
£37.00
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Biology and Cognitive Development
Book SynopsisIn this book, the authors attempt to show how a cognitive account of development can be derived from a biological basis, using the example of the development of face recognition. While some research has indicated that newborn infants possess information about the general characteristics of faces, teh majority of studies indicate that infants may take several months before they respond selectively to faces. Mark Johnson and John Marton examine the results of their own replication and extension of both sets of findings. Biology and Cognitive Development offers an important new theory of the development of face recognition and what it can tell us about the interaction between nature and nurture.Trade Review"Johnson and Morton have written a fascinating and important book. They have integrated findings from ethology, neuroscience, and experimental studies of human infants into a bold account of the early development of face perception. The implications of this landmark work go way beyond the story of the origins of face perception, per se. This book should become the standard work of an emerging new field of scientific endeavour - developmental cognitive neuroscience." Professor Susan Carey, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyTable of ContentsWhy bring biology into cognitive development?; the development of face recognition; bringing in biology; Conspec, Conlern and the development of face recognition; Conspec and Conlern in the human infant; biology, cognition and faces.
£33.20
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Meaning in Mind
Book SynopsisEven in the eyes of many of his critics, Fodor is widely regarded as the most important philosopher of psychology of his generation.Table of ContentsOn the wide and narrow, Louise Antony and Joseph Levine; has content been naturalized, Lynne Rudder Baker; what narrow content is not, Ned Block; naturalizing content, Paul Boghossian; granny's campaign for safe science, Daniel Dennett; why Fodor can't have it both ways, Michael Devitt; can we explain intentionality?, Brian Loar; can there be vindication without representation?, Robert Matthews; speaking up for Darwin, Ruth Millikan; Fodor and psychological explanations, John Perry and David Israel; how to do semantics for the language of thought, Robert Stalnaker; does mentalese have a conpositional semantics?, Stephen Schiffer; connectionism, constituency, and the language of thought, Paul Smolensky; narrow content meets fat syntax, Stephen Stich; responses, Jerry Fodor.
£35.10
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Understanding Developmental Disorders
Book SynopsisA long-awaited book from developmental disorders expert John Morton, Understanding Developmental Disorders: A Causal Modelling Approach makes sense of the many competing theories about what can go wrong with early brain development, causing a child to develop outside the normal range. Based on the idea that understanding developmental disorders requires us to talk about biological, cognitive, behavioral and environmental factors, and to talk about causal relationships among these elements. Explains what causal modelling is and how to do it. Compares different theories about particular developmental disorders using causal modelling. Will have a profound impact on research in the fields of psychology, neuroscience and medicine. Trade Review"What causes disorders of development? How can they be meaningfully defined? These questions have resulted in deeply entangled controversies. John Morton has provided a razor-sharp tool that cuts the Gordian knot. This tool uses a simple pictorial notation that leaves aside ambiguous and divisive words. It resolves entrenched but illusory oppositions between cognition and brain and between nature and nurture. It makes the confusing facts about autism, dyslexia, and other disorders fall into a new coherent pattern and invigorates the comparison of different points of view. This book is indispensable for anyone trying to understand cognitive development and its disorders." Uta Frith, Professor of Cognitive Development, University College London Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience "In his compelling book, Understanding Developmental Disorders, John Morton applies a causal modeling approach to understanding the influences that biological, cognitive, behavioral, and environmental factors exert on the emergence of developmental disorders. Morton eloquently conveys a way of conceptualizing various theories of developmental disorders. This volume will provide an invaluable tool for students, practitioners, and those in academia. I highly recommend it as a must for all professionals striving to understand the origins and course of developmental disorders." Dante Cicchetti, Ph.D., Director, Mt. Hope Family Center "Causal modelling of cognition is a new and original tool not only for thinking with precision about cognitive development and the ways in which it can go amiss; I can see this book having a revolutionary impact on developmental psychology. The causal-modelling framework is also valuable for exposing the kind of sloppy thinking about the causes of developmental difficulties that one sees so often in statements by journalists and politicians (the book contains many such examples). Simply and cogently written, this book is of great importance both for scientists in developmental psychology and for public-health professionals concerned with disorders such as autism, ADHD and dyslexia." Prof Max Coltheart, Scientific Director, Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science, Australia "John Morton's deep and wonderful book should be required reading for any serious student of cognitive development, as well as for any researcher concerned with developmental disabilities. In giving us a tool for thinking about the causal history of developmental disabilities, he offers profound insights into the nature of causality, the relations among different levels of analysis, and the causes of four developmental syndromes, including autism and dyslexia." Susan Carey, Professor, Harvard University "Morton's lucid and highly readable book offers an excellent tool to clarify the field of developmental disorders as it stands and to point the way to the future." Trends in Cognitive Sciences, August 2005 "Morton writes from first principles but then, as the book progresses, assumes some psychological sophistication. He has a comfortable and conversational...style that has become unusual in scientific writing. It invites reflection, questioning and discussion and I found it well suited to putting across concepts." Tom Berney, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, May 2006 “Morton’s causal modeling approach seems an innovative and insightful advance in examining and understanding the causes and diagnosis of pathologic conditions.” Psychological RecordTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements viii Chapter 1 Introducing Cause 1 Cause and public issues 1 Cause and individual events: ‘Why did Romeo die?’ 6 Some more reasons for not looking at individual cases 9 The need for a framework for thinking in 10 Creating a tool: the problem of notation 14 An example of the limits of language 15 An invitation to consider diagrams as a tool 18 A tool for representing causal relationships 18 Chapter 2 Introducing Cognition 20 One thing I do want you to believe 20 Reductionism 22 Can we rely on behaviour? 24 The IQ example: a note of caution 27 Why cause needs cognition 29 Chapter 3 Representing Causal Relationships: Technical and Formal Considerations 34 Categorizing facts 34 The causal notation 38 Starting a causal model for autism 41 Complications 46 Some easy stuff on cause and correlation 51 Other notations 54 Chapter 4 Autism: How Causal Modelling Started 67 The biological origin of autism 74 The role of cognition in defining autism 81 What is mentalizing? 86 The non-social features of autism: how to diagram ideas on weak central coherence in autism 89 Summary 92 Chapter 5 The What and the How 98 Ground rules of causal modelling 99 Chapter 6 Competing Causal Accounts of Autism 106 Representing the effects of environmental factors 107 Cognitive theories of autism 112 Chapter 7 The Problem of Diagnosis 133 Diagnosis and cause: relying on behaviour 134 The Spanish Inquisition example: the dangers of labelling 135 Problems of diagnostic practice 140 Variability 148 Changes over time: improvement and deterioration 152 The variability of the phenotype 153 On co-morbidity and the question of residual normality 158 To summarize 160 Chapter 8 A Causal Analysis of Dyslexia 161 The dyslexia debate: Is there such a thing as dyslexia? 161 The discrepancy definition of specific reading disability 164 Towards a cognitive definition 166 An X-type causal model of dyslexia 168 Competing theories of dyslexia 176 Non-biological causes 195 Other biological causes of reading failure 199 How do we sort among the options? 200 The relationship between acquired and developmental dyslexia 204 A theoretical update 204 Chapter 9 The Hyperkinetic Confusions 208 Drugs as diagnostic refinement 212 Types of theory 216 The problem of co-morbidity: conduct disorder and ADHD 218 The cognitive level 219 Sonuga-Barke’s dual pathway model 223 Summary 226 Chapter 10 Theories of Conduct Disorder 227 The violence inhibition mechanism (VIM) model 228 The social information processing model for aggressive children 231 The coercive parenting model of Patterson 235 The theory of life-course persistent antisocial behaviour 236 What does the application of the framework tell us about the theories? 244 Chapter 11 Tying in Biology 247 Relations between the cognitive and biological levels 247 Equivalence: brain to cognition 251 Causal influences from cognition to brain 253 Genes and cause: the end of behaviour genetics 255 Endophenotypes 264 Mouse (and other) models for human disorders 266 Chapter 12 To Conclude 270 References 273 Name Index 292 Subject Index 296
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Understanding Developmental Disorders
Book SynopsisA long-awaited book from developmental disorders expert John Morton, Understanding Developmental Disorders: A Causal Modelling Approach makes sense of the many competing theories about what can go wrong with early brain development, causing a child to develop outside the normal range. Based on the idea that understanding developmental disorders requires us to talk about biological, cognitive, behavioral and environmental factors, and to talk about causal relationships among these elements. Explains what causal modelling is and how to do it. Compares different theories about particular developmental disorders using causal modelling. Will have a profound impact on research in the fields of psychology, neuroscience and medicine. Trade Review"What causes disorders of development? How can they be meaningfully defined? These questions have resulted in deeply entangled controversies. John Morton has provided a razor-sharp tool that cuts the Gordian knot. This tool uses a simple pictorial notation that leaves aside ambiguous and divisive words. It resolves entrenched but illusory oppositions between cognition and brain and between nature and nurture. It makes the confusing facts about autism, dyslexia, and other disorders fall into a new coherent pattern and invigorates the comparison of different points of view. This book is indispensable for anyone trying to understand cognitive development and its disorders." Uta Frith, Professor of Cognitive Development, University College London Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience "In his compelling book, Understanding Developmental Disorders, John Morton applies a causal modeling approach to understanding the influences that biological, cognitive, behavioral, and environmental factors exert on the emergence of developmental disorders. Morton eloquently conveys a way of conceptualizing various theories of developmental disorders. This volume will provide an invaluable tool for students, practitioners, and those in academia. I highly recommend it as a must for all professionals striving to understand the origins and course of developmental disorders." Dante Cicchetti, Ph.D., Director, Mt. Hope Family Center "Causal modelling of cognition is a new and original tool not only for thinking with precision about cognitive development and the ways in which it can go amiss; I can see this book having a revolutionary impact on developmental psychology. The causal-modelling framework is also valuable for exposing the kind of sloppy thinking about the causes of developmental difficulties that one sees so often in statements by journalists and politicians (the book contains many such examples). Simply and cogently written, this book is of great importance both for scientists in developmental psychology and for public-health professionals concerned with disorders such as autism, ADHD and dyslexia." Prof Max Coltheart, Scientific Director, Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science, Australia "John Morton's deep and wonderful book should be required reading for any serious student of cognitive development, as well as for any researcher concerned with developmental disabilities. In giving us a tool for thinking about the causal history of developmental disabilities, he offers profound insights into the nature of causality, the relations among different levels of analysis, and the causes of four developmental syndromes, including autism and dyslexia." Susan Carey, Professor, Harvard University "Morton's lucid and highly readable book offers an excellent tool to clarify the field of developmental disorders as it stands and to point the way to the future." Trends in Cognitive Sciences, August 2005 "Morton writes from first principles but then, as the book progresses, assumes some psychological sophistication. He has a comfortable and conversational...style that has become unusual in scientific writing. It invites reflection, questioning and discussion and I found it well suited to putting across concepts." Tom Berney, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, May 2006 “Morton’s causal modeling approach seems an innovative and insightful advance in examining and understanding the causes and diagnosis of pathologic conditions.” Psychological RecordTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements viii Chapter 1 Introducing Cause 1 Cause and public issues 1 Cause and individual events: ‘Why did Romeo die?’ 6 Some more reasons for not looking at individual cases 9 The need for a framework for thinking in 10 Creating a tool: the problem of notation 14 An example of the limits of language 15 An invitation to consider diagrams as a tool 18 A tool for representing causal relationships 18 Chapter 2 Introducing Cognition 20 One thing I do want you to believe 20 Reductionism 22 Can we rely on behaviour? 24 The IQ example: a note of caution 27 Why cause needs cognition 29 Chapter 3 Representing Causal Relationships: Technical and Formal Considerations 34 Categorizing facts 34 The causal notation 38 Starting a causal model for autism 41 Complications 46 Some easy stuff on cause and correlation 51 Other notations 54 Chapter 4 Autism: How Causal Modelling Started 67 The biological origin of autism 74 The role of cognition in defining autism 81 What is mentalizing? 86 The non-social features of autism: how to diagram ideas on weak central coherence in autism 89 Summary 92 Chapter 5 The What and the How 98 Ground rules of causal modelling 99 Chapter 6 Competing Causal Accounts of Autism 106 Representing the effects of environmental factors 107 Cognitive theories of autism 112 Chapter 7 The Problem of Diagnosis 133 Diagnosis and cause: relying on behaviour 134 The Spanish Inquisition example: the dangers of labelling 135 Problems of diagnostic practice 140 Variability 148 Changes over time: improvement and deterioration 152 The variability of the phenotype 153 On co-morbidity and the question of residual normality 158 To summarize 160 Chapter 8 A Causal Analysis of Dyslexia 161 The dyslexia debate: Is there such a thing as dyslexia? 161 The discrepancy definition of specific reading disability 164 Towards a cognitive definition 166 An X-type causal model of dyslexia 168 Competing theories of dyslexia 176 Non-biological causes 195 Other biological causes of reading failure 199 How do we sort among the options? 200 The relationship between acquired and developmental dyslexia 204 A theoretical update 204 Chapter 9 The Hyperkinetic Confusions 208 Drugs as diagnostic refinement 212 Types of theory 216 The problem of co-morbidity: conduct disorder and ADHD 218 The cognitive level 219 Sonuga-Barke’s dual pathway model 223 Summary 226 Chapter 10 Theories of Conduct Disorder 227 The violence inhibition mechanism (VIM) model 228 The social information processing model for aggressive children 231 The coercive parenting model of Patterson 235 The theory of life-course persistent antisocial behaviour 236 What does the application of the framework tell us about the theories? 244 Chapter 11 Tying in Biology 247 Relations between the cognitive and biological levels 247 Equivalence: brain to cognition 251 Causal influences from cognition to brain 253 Genes and cause: the end of behaviour genetics 255 Endophenotypes 264 Mouse (and other) models for human disorders 266 Chapter 12 To Conclude 270 References 273 Name Index 292 Subject Index 296
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Stereotyping and Social Reality
Book SynopsisStereotyping and Social Reality provides new treatment of one of the central issues in social psychology, and combines a comprehensive review of the field with new theoretical analysis. As such, the book will be of interest to a broad audience of students and researchers.Trade Review"I was very impressed with this book and greatly profited from reading it. It represents both a scholarly and comprehensive review of social psychological theories and research on stereotyping and a presentation of the authors' own theoretical approach and extensive research programme. Their analysis of stereotyping in terms of self-categorization theory provides a powerful and convincing alternative (as well as much needed antidote) to the prevailing cognitive perspective. This important book will be essential reading for all students and researchers interested in stereotyping." Professor Wolfgang Stroebe, Utrecht University "This is an important, controversial and scholarly book... In addition to being exceptionally well written, Stereotyping and Social Reality provides a relatively exhaustive review of the stereotyping literature and should be on the MUST READ LIST of people interested in intergroup relations." Professor Samuel L. Gaertner, University of Delaware "Essential reading." "Ambitious it is but somehow the book does indeed succeed." Psychology " Stereotyping and Social Reality is essential reading, written in an extremely accessible, inspirational, and persuasive style." Perception "It should also be required reading for all researchers involved in stereotype research and related areas... Oakes, Haslam and Turner give us an important critique of past stereotype research, a provocative challenge to current conceptualizations, and a source of ideas that will stimulate future work - precisely waht a good academic text should do." Contemporary Psychology "... what is most valuable about this volume is the detailed presentation of a comprehensive set of findings, from one of the most scientifically productive behaviour genetic adoption project currently in existence... it represents a potentially important direction for future integrative research on genetic and environmental influences." Contemporary PsychologyTable of ContentsAuthors. Preface and Acknowledgements. Prologue. 1. Introduction: The Social Psychology of Stereotyping. 2. Early Approaches to Stereotypes and Prejudice. 3. Stereotyping as Information Processing Error: The Cognitive Emphasis. 4. Cognition and the Group: Social Identity and Self-Categorization. 5. Categorization, Selective Perception and Stereotyping: A Critical Re-Examination. 6. The Social Contextual Basis of Stereotypic Accentuation. 7. Outgroup Homogeneity and Illusory Correlation Revisited. 8. Politics, Prejudice and Myth in the Study of Stereotypes. References.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Thought in a Hostile World
Book SynopsisWINNER OF THE 2004 LAKATOS AWARD! Thought in a Hostile World is an exploration of the evolution of cognition, especially human cognition, by one of today''s foremost philosophers of biology and of mind. Featuresan exploration of the evolution of human cognition. Written by one of today's foremost philosophers of mind and language. Presents a set of analytic tools for thinking about cognition and its evolution. Offers a critique of nativist, modular versions of evolutionary psychology, rejecting the example of language as a model for thinking about human cognitive capacities. Applies to the areas of cognitive science, philosophy of mind, and evolutionary psychology. Trade Review"Written with both clarity and rigor, Thought in a Hostile World is a richly informed and sophisticated account of the evolution of complex cognition. Sterelny's arguments appeal, not so much because they reinforce our preconceptions – on the contrary, we are frequently challenged – but rather because they are informed, well-reasoned, and leave us with plenty to think about. Sterelny's book could aptly be renamed Clear Thought in a Muddled World and evolutionary psychologists, in particular, would benefit from reading it." Kevin N. Laland, University of St. Andrews "This book is a godsend for anyone wanting to understand the evolution of human cognition without buying into the wholesale modularism of recent evolutionary psychology. Densely, but elegantly, written and replete with fascinating empirical detail, this book represents a major advance in the philosophical understanding of human cognitive evolution." Fiona Cowie, California Institute of TechnologyTable of ContentsPreface. Part I: Assembling Intentionality:. 1. Evolutionary Naturalism:. Two Projects Of Evolutionary Naturalism. The Simple Co-Ordination Thesis. 2. Detection Systems:. The Environmental Complexity Hypothesis. Detection Systems. The Power Of Detection Systems. Transparent And Translucent Worlds. Robust Tracking Systems. 3. Fuels For Success:. Decoupled Representation. Response Breadth. Fuels For Success: Space. Fuels For Success: Intervention In The Material World. Reprise. 4. Fuels For Success: The Social Intelligence Hypothesis:. The Cognitive Demands Of Social Life. The Social Intelligence Hypothesis. The Cognitive World Of The Great Apes: Imitation. The Cognitive World Of Great Apes: Tracking Other Minds. 5. The Descent Of Preference:. Internal Environments. The Forager’s Dilemma. Preference Eliminativism?. Preference-Like States. Part II: Not Just Another Species Of Large Mammal:. 6. Reconstructing Hominid Evolution:. Testing Theories Of Human Evolution. From Cognitive Device To Evolutionary History. Making Progress. An Example: Tomasello’s Conjecture. Conclusions. 7. The Co-Operation Explosion:. The Co-Operative Primate. Group Selection And Human Co-Operation. The Ecological Trigger Of Hominid Co-Operation. Coalition And Enforcement. Commitment To Enforcement. Upshot. 8. The Self-Made Species:. Ecological Engineers. Cumulative Niche Construction: The Cognitive Condition. Cumulative Niche Construction: The Social Condition. Hominid Epistemic Engineering. Downstream Epistemic Engineering. 9. Heterogeneous Environments And Variable Response:. Phenotypic Plasticity. Is Plasticity An Adaptation?. Reprise. Part III: The Fate Of The Folk:. 10. The Massive Modularity Hypothesis:. Massive Modularity. Language: Paradigm Or Outlier?. Communicative Intentions. Fodor’s Modules And Their Limits. Inward Bound. Evolution And Encapsulation. The Poverty Of The Stimulus. The Case Of Folk Biology. Modularity And The Frame Problem. 11. Interpreting Other Agents:. A Theory Of Mind Module?. Deconstructing The Folk Psychology Module. Interpretation, Perception And Scaffolded Learning. Truth, Evidence And Success. Co-Ordination And Meaning. Something New Under The Sun?. References. Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Thought in a Hostile World
Book SynopsisThis is an exploration of the evolution of cognition. The author begins by developing a set of analytic tools for thinking about cognition and its evolution,examining the relationship between folk psychology and an integrated scientific conception of human cognition.Trade Review"Written with both clarity and rigor, Thought in a Hostile World is a richly informed and sophisticated account of the evolution of complex cognition. Sterelny's arguments appeal, not so much because they reinforce our preconceptions – on the contrary, we are frequently challenged – but rather because they are informed, well-reasoned, and leave us with plenty to think about. Sterelny's book could aptly be renamed Clear Thought in a Muddled World and evolutionary psychologists, in particular, would benefit from reading it." Kevin N. Laland, University of St. Andrews "This book is a godsend for anyone wanting to understand the evolution of human cognition without buying into the wholesale modularism of recent evolutionary psychology. Densely, but elegantly, written and replete with fascinating empirical detail, this book represents a major advance in the philosophical understanding of human cognitive evolution." Fiona Cowie, California Institute of TechnologyTable of ContentsPreface. Part I: Assembling Intentionality:. 1. Evolutionary Naturalism:. Two Projects Of Evolutionary Naturalism. The Simple Co-Ordination Thesis. 2. Detection Systems:. The Environmental Complexity Hypothesis. Detection Systems. The Power Of Detection Systems. Transparent And Translucent Worlds. Robust Tracking Systems. 3. Fuels For Success:. Decoupled Representation. Response Breadth. Fuels For Success: Space. Fuels For Success: Intervention In The Material World. Reprise. 4. Fuels For Success: The Social Intelligence Hypothesis:. The Cognitive Demands Of Social Life. The Social Intelligence Hypothesis. The Cognitive World Of The Great Apes: Imitation. The Cognitive World Of Great Apes: Tracking Other Minds. 5. The Descent Of Preference:. Internal Environments. The Forager’s Dilemma. Preference Eliminativism?. Preference-Like States. Part II: Not Just Another Species Of Large Mammal:. 6. Reconstructing Hominid Evolution:. Testing Theories Of Human Evolution. From Cognitive Device To Evolutionary History. Making Progress. An Example: Tomasello’s Conjecture. Conclusions. 7. The Co-Operation Explosion:. The Co-Operative Primate. Group Selection And Human Co-Operation. The Ecological Trigger Of Hominid Co-Operation. Coalition And Enforcement. Commitment To Enforcement. Upshot. 8. The Self-Made Species:. Ecological Engineers. Cumulative Niche Construction: The Cognitive Condition. Cumulative Niche Construction: The Social Condition. Hominid Epistemic Engineering. Downstream Epistemic Engineering. 9. Heterogeneous Environments And Variable Response:. Phenotypic Plasticity. Is Plasticity An Adaptation?. Reprise. Part III: The Fate Of The Folk:. 10. The Massive Modularity Hypothesis:. Massive Modularity. Language: Paradigm Or Outlier?. Communicative Intentions. Fodor’s Modules And Their Limits. Inward Bound. Evolution And Encapsulation. The Poverty Of The Stimulus. The Case Of Folk Biology. Modularity And The Frame Problem. 11. Interpreting Other Agents:. A Theory Of Mind Module?. Deconstructing The Folk Psychology Module. Interpretation, Perception And Scaffolded Learning. Truth, Evidence And Success. Co-Ordination And Meaning. Something New Under The Sun?. References. Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Churchlands and their Critics
Book SynopsisThe influence of Patricia and Paul Churchlanda s work on contemporary philosophy and cognitive science has been profound. The Churchlands have challenged nearly all prevailing doctrines concerning knowledge, mind, science, and language.Table of ContentsIntroduction. Part I: Essays Addressed to the Churchlands:. 1. Explanatory Pluralism and the Co-evolution of Theories in Science: Robert N McCauley (Emory University). 2. From Neurophilosophy to neurocomputation: Searching for the Cognitive Forest: Patricia Kitcher (University of California at San Diego). 3. Dealing in Futures: Folk Psychology and the Role of Representations in Cognitive Science: Andy Clark (Washington University). 4. Paul Churchland's PDP Approach to Explanation: William G Lycan (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill). 5. What should a Connectionist Philosophy of Science Look Like?: William Bechtel (Georgia State University). 6. Paul Churchland and State Space Semantics: Jerry Fodor and Ernie Lepore (Rutgers University). 7. Reply to Churchland: Jerry Fodor and Ernie Lepore (Rutgers University). 8. Images and subjectivity: Neurobiological Trials and Tribulations: Antonio R Damasio and Hanna Damasio (University of California at San Diego). 9. Neurophilosophy: Without a Hyphen Already: John Marshall and Jennifer Gurd (University of Oxford). 10. The Moral Network: Owen Flanagan (Duke University). Part II: Replies From the Churchlands A: The Future of Psychology, Folk and Scientific:. 1. McCauley's Demand for a Co-level Competitor. 2. Connectionism as Psychology. 3. Kitcher's Empirical Challenge to PSC: Has There Been Progress in Neurophilosophy?. 4. Clark's Connectionist Defense of Folk Psychology. B: The Impact of Neural Network Models on the Philosophy of Science:. 5. On the Nature of Explanation: William Lycan. 6. Bechtel on the Proper Form of a Connectionist Philosophy of Science. C: Semantics in a New Vein:. 7. Fodor and Lepore: State-Space Semantics and Meaning Holism. 8. Second Reply to Fodor and Lepore. D: Consciousness and Methodology:. 9. Neuropsychology and Brain Organization: The Damasios. 10. Conceptual Analysis and Neuropsychology: John Marshall and Jennifer Gurd. 11. Do We Propose to Eliminate Consciousness?E: Moral Psychology and the Rebirth of Moral Theory:. 12. Flanagan on Moral Knowledge.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Cognitive Practices Human Language and Human
Book SynopsisHow does human language contribute to the cognitive edge humans have over other species? Incorporating research results in psychology, the author develops an original account of language acquisition which holds important implications for standard theories of language and the philosophical foundations of cognitive science.Trade Review"Rita Nolan successfully criticizes ideas -among them, Fodor's 'language of thought' model and Chomsky's 'innateness hypothesis' -that have dominated cognitive psychology and linguistics for decades. But this is much more than a critical book, valuable as good philosophical criticism always is; with a remarkable combination of philosophical imagination and breadth of knowledge, she illuminates the entire area of philosophy and psychology of language. The social practice account of language that she proposes sheds light on a host of topics (including the philosophy of the earlier and the later Wittgenstein), and it leads her to suggest a novel but highly plausible reconceptualization of the development of logical and linguistic skills in the child that will fascinate psychologists as well as philosophers." Hilary Putnam, Harvard UniversityTable of ContentsPreface. Introduction. Part I: Language and Cognitive Dynamics:. 1. The Question. 2. Language Realism. 3. Cognitive Dynamics. 4. Society and Language. 5. Desiderata for a Theory of Language. 6. The Standard Theory. 7. Foci for Revision. Part II: The Code Metaphor for Languages:. 8. The Semantic Content of the Code Metaphor. 9. Referential Semantics: Breaking the Code?. 10. The New Code Theory. 11. Mature Competency and Language Learning. Part III: Language Entry:. 12. Linguistic Constructionalism. 13. The Fallacy of Linguistic Supervenience. 14. Semantic Theory and Language Learning. 15. Reconceptualizing Language Acquisition. 16. How Long Does it Take?. 17. Superordination. 18. The Cognitive Import of Superordination. 19. The Categorical Structure of Discourse. 20. Conclusion. Part IV: Society in Mind:. 21. The Superordination Hypothesis. 22. Unavailable Routes to Language Entry. 23. Two Questions. 24. Interpreting Early Speech. 25. Early Syntax. 26. But What Is Predication?. Part V: From Response to Assertion:. 27. Is There a Transition from Response to Assertion. 28. Subjects and Predicates. 29. Formal Approaches to Predication. 30. Sensation, Perception, Conception and Judgement. 31. Categories of Perception, Categories of Conception. 32. The Generality Constraint. 33. Developmental Data. 34. From Perceptual Categories to Conceptual Categories. 35. The Emergence of Predication. 36. Some Consequences of "Thick" Superordination. Part VI: Discursive Practices:. 37. Mutant Predicates. 38. Conceptual Structures. 39. Towards a Topology of Concepts. 40. Conceptual Structures. 41. Meaning as Analogical. 42. Discourse Genres. 43. Non-Gricean Pragmatists. 44. Socially Contingent Phenomena. 45. The Attitudes as Socially Contingent. 46. Substructural Indeterminacy. References. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Cognitive Neuroscience of Action
Book SynopsisAdopting a cognitive neuroscience approach to this question generates a new perspective and some challenging hypotheses. The book explores in detail the contribution of the brain structures, particularly the cerebral cortex, to the various aspects of movement preparation and execution.Trade Review"The Cognitive Neuroscience of Action provides an interesting historical context to many of the important ideas that guide current thinking about the neural basis of action." Peter Redgrave, University of Sheffield"It is both innovative and integrative and certainly is a must read for those working in the area...I would certainly recommend this book in advanced undergraduate work, perhaps as an adjunct to a third year undergraduate course or for a reading group in visual perception, perception and action, or neuropsychology." Alan M. Wing, Psychology Teaching Review "Jeannerod's book is an impressive example of a cognitive neuroscientific approach to action." Johannes Engelkamp, University of the Saarland, American Journal of Psychology, Spring 2001.Table of ContentsPart I: General Introduction:. 1.1. Action as a Coordination Problem. 1.2. Internal Models and the Purpose of Actions. 1.3. Motor Engrams. 1.4. Outline. Part II: Neural Substrates for Object Orientated Actions:. 2.1. Visuomotor Coordination as a Dissociable Visual Function. 2.1.1. The Two-Visual-Systems Hypothesis. 2.1.2. Two Cortical Visual Systems. 2.1.3. Visuomotor Channels. 2.2 Neural Coding in the Visuomotor (dorsal) Pathway: Reaching Movements. 2.2.1. Reaching Neurons in the Parietal Cortex. 2.2.2. The Role of Motor and Premotor Cortex. 2.3 Neural Coding in the Visuomotor (dorsal) Pathway: Grasping Movements. 2.3.1. The Pattern of Grip Formation. 2.3.2. Neural Mechanisms Involved in the Control of Visually Guided Grasping. 2.3.2.1. Motor Cortex. 2.3.2.2. Parietal Cortical Areas. 2.3.2.3. Premotor Cortex Neurons. 2.4. Predetermined Motor Patterns: The Schema Approach. Part III: Task-Dependent Representations for Action:. 3.1. Relevance of Neural Systems to Task-Dependent Representations of Action. 3.1.1. Effects of Posterior Parietal Lesions on Object-Orientated Actions. 3.1.2. Testing Object-Oriented Behavior. 3.1.3. Two Illustrative Clinical Cases. 3.2. Object-Oriented Behaviour in Lesions of the Ventral System. 3.3. Brain Activity Mapping During Object-Oriented Actions. 3.4. The Representation of Object-Oriented Actions. 3.4.1. Classifying Object Attributes. 3.4.2. The Frame of Reference Problem. 3.5. Task Dependent Dissociations of Visumotor and Perceptual Responses. 3.5.1. Motor Vs Perceptual Responses. 3.5.2. Time-Based Dissociations. 3.5.3. Implicit Functioning of Pragmatic Representations. 3.5.4. The Semantic Penetration of Pragmatic Representations. 3.6. A Note on Apraxia. Part IV: The Contribution of Mental Imagery to Understanding Motor Representations:. 4.1. Motor Imagery, A "First Person" Process. 4.2. What is Represented in Motor Images. 4.2.1. The Problem of the Representation of Time. 4.2.2. The Representation of Motor Rules. 4.2.3. Representation of Motor Constraints and Potentialities. 4.3. Physiological Correlates of Mental Simulation of Movement. 4.3.1. Muscular Activity. 4.3.2. Autonomic Nervous System. 4.3.3. Brain Activity. 4.4. The Effects of Mental Training. 4.5. Motor Imagery in Clinical Disorders of Movement and Action. Part V: Action Planning:. 5.1. A Cognitive Approach to Action Planning. 5.1.1. Mental Chronometry Paradigms. 5.2. A Neuropsychological Approach to Action Planning. 5.2.1. Anatomical Connections of the Frontal Granular Cortex. 5.2.2. Frontal Lobe Lesions in Mokeys. 5.2.3. Paradigms for Studying Neuronal Activity in Prefrontal Areas. 5.2.4. Planning Deficits Following Frontal Lesion in Man. 5.3. Study of Human Brain Activity during Motor Preparation and Action Planning. 5.4. The Role of Basal Ganglia in Action Planning. 5.5. A Synthetic Conclusion on Action Planning. Part VI: Design for a Motor Representation:. 6.1. Requirements for Representing Neurons. 6.2. The Internal Structure of Motor Representations. 6.2.1. The Corollary Discharge Concept. 6.2.2. Comparator Models. 6.3. Testing the Validity of Comparator Models. 6.3.1. Perturbation Experiments. 6.3.2. The Role of Reafference. 6.4. Monitoring Intentions. 6.4.1. Sensations of Innervation. 6.4.2. The Problem of Awareness of Intentions. 6.4.3. Understanding Intentions of Others. 6.4.4. Imitation and Observational Learning.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Explaining Culture A Naturalistic Approach Author
Book SynopsisIdeas, Dan Sperber argues, may be contagious. They may invade whole populations. In the process, the people, their environment, and the ideas themselves are being transformed. To explain culture is to describe the causes and the effects of this contagion of ideas. This book will be read by all those with an interest in the impact of the cognitive revolution on our understanding of culture.Trade Review"Dan Sperber is to be thanked for continuing to contribute to dialogue between the cognitive and social branches of the human sciences." Daniel Nettle, Merton College Oxford "Apart from its wealth of insight, cogent arguments, apposite illustrations, and lucid and entertaining prose, Explaining Culture also offers a glimpse of what cultural study might be: rather than foreclosing possibilities on the strength of received wisdom or a selective interdisciplinary which rules out so much interesting thinking, it makes its own start on the formulation of fresh, apparently basic but at the same time far-reaching research questions. Alan Durant "Sperber emphasizes macro-and micro-processes of distribution that make cultural transformation and individual development possible and most simply processes of replication. Sperber offers the beginnings of a naturalistic theory of both culture and religion that will interest students and scholars alike." Susan Henking, Hobart and William Smith Colleges Geneva "Explaining Culture is a good read. It is full of interesting suggestions on a wide range of anthropological and psychological issues." Kim Sterelny, Music and Letters, Vol 110, July 2001.Table of ContentsPreface. Introduction. 1. How to be a True Materialist in Anthropology. 2. Interpreting and Explaining Cultural Representations. 3. Anthropology and Psychology: Towards an Epidemiology of Representations. 4. The Epidemiology of Beliefs. 5. Selection and Attraction in Cultural Evolution. 6. Mental Modularity and Cultural Diversity. Conclusion: What is at Stake?. Notes. References. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Optimality Theory
Book SynopsisThis volume provides the first general introduction to optimality theory -- arguably the linguistic theory of the 1990s. The book leads the reader to an understanding of optimality theory via the exploration and resolution of specific problems in phonology, morphology, and syntax, but presumes virtually no background knowledge in linguistics.Trade Review"This book does offer a well-rounded entry point into the theory for anyone with some basic training in linguistics, including researchers who wish to take a crash course in the theory." Second Language ResearchTable of Contents1. Optimality Theory: An Introduction to Linguistics for the 1990s: Diana B. Archangeli (University of Arizona). 2. Optimality Theory and Features: Douglas Pulleybank (University of British Columbia). 3. Optimality Theory and Prosody: Michael Hammond (University of Arizona). 4. Optimality Theory and Morphology: Kevin Russell (University of Manitoba). 5. Optimality Theory and Syntax: Null Arguments and Control: Margaret Speas (University of Massachusetts at Amherst). 6. Optimality Theory and Syntax: Parallels with Phonology: David Pesetsky (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd What Is Cognitive Science
Book SynopsisProvides a non-technical introduction to cognitive science, and the key issues that animate the field. This work explores subject areas such as Mind, Vision, Language, and Neuroscience, and contains selections on the foundations of cognitive science, cognition development, reasoning, object recognition, eye movements, and visual recognition.Trade Review"Many of the authors are major academic figures (e.g., Fodor, Pylyshyn, Stich), and all are authoritative in their fields. The book, taken as a whole, conveys some of the excitement going on today in cognitive science. Recommended." C. Koch, Choice "Having been based on a lecture series that brought together some of the most innovative research in the field, this collection will work superbly as an introductory text. Aimed at a diverse audience, the issues are given a systematic presentation with technical concepts introduced both gradually and precisely. Lepore and Pylyshyn's edition serves as a quite complete and provocative path of entry into the science of the mind." David Kilfoyle, York University, Canada "An excellent collection of chapters by very talented investigators who truly understand the mission of cognitive science." -- Rochel Gelman, Rutgers UniversityTable of ContentsPreface vii Acknowledgements ix 1 What’s in your mind? 1 Zenon W. Pylyshyn 2 Explaining the infant’s object concept: Beyond the perception/cognition dichotomy 26 Brian J. Scholl and Alan M. Leslie 3 Rethinking rationality: From bleak implications to Darwinian modules 74 Richard Samuels, Stephen Stich, and Patrice D. Tremoulet 4 New foundations for perception 121 Michael Leyton 5 Object representation and recognition 172 Sven J. Dickinson 6 Does vision work? Towards a semantics of perception 208 Jacob Feldman 7 The brain as a hypothesis-constructing-and-testing agent 230 Thomas V. Papathomas 8 What movements of the eye tell us about the mind 248 Eileen Kowler 9 Visual dilemmas: Competition between eyes and between percepts in binocular rivalry 263 Thomas V. Papathomas, Ilona Kovacs, Akos Feher, and Bela Julesz 10 Linguistic and cognitive explanation in optimality theory 295 Bruce Tesar, Jane Grimshaw, and Alan Prince 11 Impossible words? 327 Jerry Fodor and Ernest Lepore 12 Bridging the symbolic-connectionist gap in language comprehension 336 Suzanne Stevenson 13 Cognitive and neural aspects of language acquisitions 356 Karin Stromswold 14 Connectionist neuroscience: representational and learning issues for neuroscience 401 Stephen Jose Hanson Index 429
£99.86
John Wiley and Sons Ltd What is Cognitive Science
Book SynopsisProvides a non-technical introduction to cognitive science, and the key issues that animate the field. This work explores subject areas such as Mind, Vision, Language, and Neuroscience, and contains selections on the foundations of cognitive science, cognition development, reasoning, object recognition, eye movements, and visual recognition.Trade Review"Many of the authors are major academic figures (e.g., Fodor, Pylyshyn, Stich), and all are authoritative in their fields. The book, taken as a whole, conveys some of the excitement going on today in cognitive science. Recommended." C. Koch, Choice "Having been based on a lecture series that brought together some of the most innovative research in the field, this collection will work superbly as an introductory text. Aimed at a diverse audience, the issues are given a systematic presentation with technical concepts introduced both gradually and precisely. Lepore and Pylyshyn's edition serves as a quite complete and provocative path of entry into the science of the mind." David Kilfoyle, York University, Canada "An excellent collection of chapters by very talented investigators who truly understand the mission of cognitive science." -- Rochel Gelman, Rutgers UniversityTable of ContentsPreface vii Acknowledgements ix 1 What’s in your mind? 1 Zenon W. Pylyshyn 2 Explaining the infant’s object concept: Beyond the perception/cognition dichotomy 26 Brian J. Scholl and Alan M. Leslie 3 Rethinking rationality: From bleak implications to Darwinian modules 74 Richard Samuels, Stephen Stich, and Patrice D. Tremoulet 4 New foundations for perception 121 Michael Leyton 5 Object representation and recognition 172 Sven J. Dickinson 6 Does vision work? Towards a semantics of perception 208 Jacob Feldman 7 The brain as a hypothesis-constructing-and-testing agent 230 Thomas V. Papathomas 8 What movements of the eye tell us about the mind 248 Eileen Kowler 9 Visual dilemmas: Competition between eyes and between percepts in binocular rivalry 263 Thomas V. Papathomas, Ilona Kovacs, Akos Feher, and Bela Julesz 10 Linguistic and cognitive explanation in optimality theory 295 Bruce Tesar, Jane Grimshaw, and Alan Prince 11 Impossible words? 327 Jerry Fodor and Ernest Lepore 12 Bridging the symbolic-connectionist gap in language comprehension 336 Suzanne Stevenson 13 Cognitive and neural aspects of language acquisitions 356 Karin Stromswold 14 Connectionist neuroscience: representational and learning issues for neuroscience 401 Stephen Jose Hanson Index 429
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Dyslexia
Book Synopsisaeo Extensively re--written and updated, ensuring it remains the leading text in the field. aeo Reviews research on the cognitive deficits of dyslexia and the evidence concerning its biological basis. aeo Represents the only single authored book that offers a cognitive perspective on dyslexia.Trade Review"This book by Margaret Snowling...is a very welcome update of her well-received first edition book published in 1987 and reflects the significant amount of research that has taken place since this time. Margaret Snowling's thesis is that dyslexia is a consequence of a phonological deficit. Her evidence for this is extremely well presented throughout her book. Chapter 3 - The Phonological Representations Hypothesis - is exceptionally well written and assertively lays down the foundation of her argument. This book, although written with an academic rigour, cleverly embraces the impact of dyslexia on the individual...This promotes a very positive and optimistic theme on the treatment of dyslexia throughout the book. This book successfully provides a contemporary synthesis of research on the cognitive deficits of dyslexia and is strongly recommended to anyone with any involvement or interest in this complex area. It will be of enormous value to educational psychologists and teachers of students with specific learning difficulties and, no doubt, will continue to be the essential book on any training course's reading list on the subject. The book is very generously priced and therefore of exceptional value, given its contents." Dr. Barry Johnson BSc, Cert Ed, Dip Ed Psych, PhD, C. Psych Principal Educational Psychologist, The Dyslexia Institute. "An excellent view of the current state-of-the-art in dyslexia research, as is to be expected from this author, who is a recognized authority in the field. It is committed to a phonological approach to dyslexia, which explains the condition as a deficit of phonological representations. Snowling's book gives an outstanding account of this research tradition." TRENDS in Cognitive Sciences, Vol 5, No 3, March 2001. "Dyslexia is a basic work that explains in a very understandable way, very complex themes. It gives insight in the definition, ethicality and the treatment of children with dyslexia. That makes this work definitely a must-read (or: definitely very recommendable) for anyone that wants to resource himself in the understanding of and dealing with children that have dyslexia. On top of that, even experienced therapists get a better insight in the severity and characteristics of the problems of their clients". SIG NAAL, Journaal van Vormingsdienst SIG, August-September 2001.Table of ContentsPreface to the Second Edition. 1. What is Dyslexia?. 2. The Definition of Dyslexia. 3. The Phonological Representations Hypothesis. 4. Learning to Read and to Spell. 5. Dyslexia: A Written Language Disorder. 6. Individual Differences in Dyslexia. 7. The Severity Hypothesis. 8. Biological Bases of Dyslexia. 9. Dyslexia: A Sensory Impairment?. 10. Helping to Overcome Dyslexia. 11. Proficiency and Deficiency: The Role of Compensation. 12. Conclusions and Future Prospects. References. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Understanding Cognitive Science
Book SynopsisAn introduction to cognitive science, this title provides undergraduate and graduate students with the theoretical foundations of classical and connectionist cognitive science to explain the and teach the underlying unity of the field.Trade Review"Dawson knows how to write charming prose and to apply his talent to unravelling hard ideas. Few people can write about cognitive science methodology in such a disarmingly easy-to-read style. This is not only a thorough book that reaches into all the serious issues of the day, but it is one that is more accessible than any I have read." Zenon Pylyshyn, Professor of Cognitive Science, Rutgers University "Dawson's book is a fine treatment of the computational and psychological heartland of cognitive science for senior students. There is no serious competition. Many texts are a forced march through the disciplines. By contrast, Dawson has found what he calls the 'unifying glue' that keeps the different disciplines within cognitive science working together." Andrew Brook, Carleton University "This is not a novel hypothesis, but Dawson's use of the tri-level hypothesis to drive a cognitive science text is admirable. Dawson's book is very readable and will suit advanced-level undergraduates or postgraduates cognitive science students with a speciality in one of the contributing disciplines. This is a book which I recommend not just as a text, but as essential reading for practising cognitive scientists." Richard Cooper, Times Higher Education Supplement "....this new unique casebook ismore than a welcome compliment to existing learning materials, it is the first vehicle to educating students for the global retailer's market." Journal of Retialing and Consumter ServicesTable of ContentsList of Figures. List of Tables. 1. The Coffee Room and Cognitive Science. 2. The Classical View of Information Processing. 3. The Connectionist View of Information Processing. 4. The Computational Level of Analysis. 5. The Algorithmic Level. 6. The Functional Architecture. 7. The Implementation Level. 8. A Case Study in Cognitive Science. 9. The Tri-Level Hypothesis and Cognitive Science. References. Name Index. Subject Index.
£93.05
John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Cognitive Neuroscience of Vision
Book SynopsisAn introduction to the cognitive neuroscience of vision. The book introduces the reader to the anatomy of the eye and visual cortex and then proceeds to discuss image and representation, face recognition, printed word recognition, visual sematic memory and visual attention and perception.Trade Review"This is an outstanding overview of an exciting frontier of research on the mind. Farah has a gift for ingenious and original syntheses of complicated research topics, which makes this book an invaluable resource for anyone interested in how the brain lets us see," Steven Pinker, Professor, MIT, and author of How the Mind Works and Words and Rules "Farah’s book gives a comprehensive account of the cognitive neuroscience of vision, filtered through the judgment and enlivened by the comments of one of its best-known contributors. An excellent and lively survey to interest and inform both students and researchers." Anne Treisman, Princeton UniversityTable of Contents1. Early Vision. 2. From Local To Global Image Representation. 3. The Problem Of Visual Recognition. 4. Object Recognition. 5. Face Recognition. 6. Word Recognition. 7. Visual Attention. 8. Hemispatial Neglect. 9. Mental Imagery. 10. Visual Awareness.
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