Cognition and cognitive psychology Books

Book SynopsisSuccessful people literally see the world differently. Now an award-winning scientist explains how anyone can leverage this “perception gap” to their advantage. “Get ready for this book to change how you see everything you see."—Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of Originals and Give and Take When it comes to setting and meeting goals, we may see—quite literally—our plans, our progress, and our potential in the wrong ways. We perceive ourselves as being closer to or further from the end than we may actually be depending on our frame of reference. We handicap ourselves by looking too often at the big picture and at other times too long at the fine detail. But as award-winning social psychologist Emily Balcetis explains, there is great power in these misperceptions. We can learn to leverage perceptual illusions if we know when and how to use them to our advantage. Drawing on her own rigorous research and cutting-edge discoveries in vision science, cognitive research, and motivational psychology, Balcetis offers unique accounts of the perceptual habits, routines, and practices that successful people use to set and meet their ambitions. Through case studies of entrepreneurs, athletes, artists, and celebrities—as well as her own colorful experience of trying to set and reach a goal—she brings to life four powerful yet largely untapped visual tactics that can be applied according to the situation. Narrow your focus: Closing the aperture of your attention helps you exercise effectively, save money, and find more time in your day. Widen the bracket: Seeing the forest instead of the trees reduces temptations and helps you recognize when a change of course is in order.  Materialize your plan and your progress: Creating checklists and objective assessments inspires better planning and adjusts your gauge of what’s really left to be done. Control your frame of reference: Knowing where to direct attention improves your ability to read others’ emotions, negotiate better deals, foster stronger relationships, and overcome a fear of public speaking. A mind-blowing and original tour of perception, Clearer, Closer, Better will help you see the possibilities in what you can’t see now. Inspiring, motivating, and always entertaining, it demonstrates that if we take advantage of our visual experiences, they can lead us to live happier, healthier, and more productive lives every day.

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Book Synopsis How the principles of biological innovation can help us overcome creative challenges in art, business, and science In Life Finds a Way, biologist Andreas Wagner reveals the deep symmetry between innovation in biological evolution and human cultural creativity. Rarely is either a linear climb to perfection--instead, "progress" is typically marked by a sequence of peaks, plateaus, and pitfalls. For instance, in Picasso''s forty-some iterations of Guernica, we see the same combination of small steps, incessant reshuffling, and large, almost reckless, leaps that characterize the way evolution transformed a dinosaur''s grasping claw into a condor''s soaring wing. By understanding these principles, we can also better realize our own creative potential to find new solutions to adversity. Ultimately, Life Finds a Way offers a new framework for the nature of creativity, enabling us to better adapt, grow, and change in art, business, or science--that is, in life.

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Book SynopsisAs author Bennett Schwartz says in Memory: Foundations and Applications, it is hard to imagine an aspect of psychology more fundamental than memory. This unique text covers key memory models, theories, and experiments, but goes a step further to demonstrate how students can apply these concepts to their everyday lives and improve their own ability to learn and remember. A new, three-pronged organization opens the text with an overview of the psychological science of Memory, builds expertise in advanced topics, and then allows the reader to think about how memory research can benefit society. Neuroscience research is integrated throughout each chapter to demonstrate our understanding of where memory processes occur and how researchers use data to shape memory theories. Additional updates to the the Fourth Edition include a chapter on memory science′s relevance to the legal system, a chapter on memory issues in psychiatric disorders, a reorganized chapter on memory development, and an enlarged section on prospective memory now combined with the chapter on metamemory. Included with this title: The password-protected Instructor Resource Site (formally known as SAGE Edge) offers access to all text-specific resources, including a test bank and editable, chapter-specific PowerPoint® slides.Trade ReviewBennett L. Schwartz’s book, Memory: Foundations and Applications is the most comprehensive text on cognitive memory and application that I have found and used in both my graduate and undergraduate courses. Beginning at the basic and fundamental understanding of the types of memory and continuing to the more advanced discovery of up to date application, this text is perfect for really knowing how memory systems work. -- Michael E. CoxSchwartz’s Memory: Foundations and Applications brings the modern world of memory research into clear focus with engaging examples, a strong emphasis on real-world applications of memory, and opportunities for students to learn as they explore the text. -- Geoffrey O′SheaThis text does an excellent job of conveying important concepts, cutting-edge research, and tying both to real-world applications. It is written clearly and at the perfect level for graduate students with a variety of backgrounds. -- Rebecca G. DeasonTable of ContentsPreface About the Author SECTION 1 • MEMORY AND PROCESSES OF MEMORY Chapter 1 • Introduction to the Study of Memory The Science of Memory The History of Memory Research Methods of Studying Memory Memory Measures Culture and Memory Improving Memory Efficiency Themes for the Book Summary Key Terms Review Questions Online Resources Chapter 2 • Neuroscience of Memory Old Questions, New Answers Brain and Memory The Neuron Structures of the Human Brain Interim Summary and Quiz Methods of Cognitive Neuroscience Neuropsychology: Memory Deficits and Amnesia Chemical Enhancement of Memory Olfaction, Memory, and the Brain Genetic Approaches Case Example: The Neuroscience of Face Memory Summary Key Terms Review Questions Online Resources Chapter 3 • Working Memory What Is Working Memory? Some Terminological Clarifications Sensory Memory Working Memory Capacity Memory Span Tasks The Duration of Information in Working Memory The Serial Position Curve and Its Implication for Working Memory Section Summary and Quiz The Working Memory Model of Baddeley Working Memory Systems Section Summary and Quiz Working Memory and the Brain Applications of Working Memory Summary Key Terms Review Questions Online Resources Chapter 4 • Episodic Memory Evidence for the Episodic/Semantic Distinction Memory Processes: Encoding, Representation, and Retrieval Section Summary and Quiz Memory Processes: Encoding, Representation, and Retrieval Directed Forgetting Summary Key Terms Review Questions Online Resources Chapter 5 • Semantic Memory Associative Structures in Semantic Memory Semantic Priming and Lexical Decision Tasks Sentence Verification Tasks Bilingual Representation Section Summary and Quiz Concepts and Categories Schemas and Scripts Section Summary and Quiz Representation and Imagery Photographic Memory: Reality or Fantasy? Cognitive Maps Section Summary and Quiz Language, Lexical Memory, and Semantic Memory Section Summary and Quiz Key Terms Review Questions Online Resources SECTION 2 • ADVANCED TOPICS IN MEMORY Chapter 6 • Autobiographical Memory Conway’s Theory of Representation in Autobiographical Memory Section Summary and Quiz Childhood Amnesia Flashbulb Memories Collaborative Memory Section Summary and Quiz Diary Studies and Autobiographical Memory The Cue-Word Technique for Eliciting Autobiographical Memories and the Reminiscence Bump Aspects of Autobiographical Memory The Neuroscience of Autobiographical Memory Key Terms Review Questions Online Resources Chapter 7 • False Memory Correspondence, Accuracy, and Amount Source Monitoring Methods of Studying False Memory Hypnosis and Memory Section Summary and Quiz Recovered Memories: The Reality of Repression Section Summary and Quiz Summary Key Terms Review Questions Online Resources Chapter 8 • Prospective Memory and Metamemory Prospective Memory Section Summary and Quiz Metamemory What Is Metamemory? Theories of Metamemory Section Summary and Quiz Types of Judgments Section Summary and Quiz Control Processes in Metamemory Other Kinds of Metamemory Summary Key Terms Review Questions Online Resources Chapter 9 • Memory and Development Memory in Children Memory in Infancy Section Summary and Quiz Memory in Early Childhood Section Summary and Quiz Memory in Older Children Metamemory in Children Summary Memory in Older Adults Theories of Aging and Memory Section Summary and Quiz Age-Related Changes in Working Memory Semantic Memory Episodic Memory Section Summary and Quiz Metamemory in Older Adults Use It or Lose It: Maintaining Memory Ability in Older Adults Mnemonic Tips for Older Adults The Neuroscience of Memory and Aging Summary Key Terms Review Questions Online Resources SECTION 3 • APPLICATIONS OF MEMORY RESEARCH Chapter 10 • Brain-Based Amnesia and Alzheimer’s Disease What Is Amnesia? Case Studies of Amnesia Anterograde Amnesia Section Summary and Quiz Retrograde Amnesia Frontal Syndrome Transient Global Amnesia Short-Term Memory Amnesia Reduplicative Paramnesia and Capgras Syndrome Section Summary and Quiz Alzheimer’s Disease Memory Rehabilitation Summary Key Terms Review Questions Online Resources Chapter 11 • Memory and Clinical Disorders Psychogenic Amnesia Section Summary and Quiz Memory in Schizophrenia Memory and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Memory in Autism Section Summary and Quiz Key Terms Review Questions Online Resources Chapter 12 • Applications 1: Legal Psychology Applications of Memory Research to Legal Psychology Eyewitness Memory Effects of Wording on Memory of an Accident The Misinformation Effect Section Summary and Quiz Children’s Eyewitness Memory Section Summary and Quiz Simultaneous and Sequential Lineups in Eyewitness Memory The Cognitive Interview: More Information Without Suggestion Section Summary and Quiz Summary Key Terms Review Questions Online Resources Chapter 13 • Applications 2: Memory Improvement and Learning Efficiency 1. Process for Meaning 2. Engage in Retrieval Practice Section Summary and Quiz 3. Use Metamemory 4. Distribute Your Practice Section Summary and Quiz Visual Mnemonics Myths and Methods to Avoid Mnemonists Summary Key Terms Review Questions Online Resources Glossary References Author Index Subject Index

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Book SynopsisCognitive Psychology: Theory, Process, and Methodology introduces students to the main topics of study in this exciting field through an engaging presentation of how cognitive processes have been and continue to be studied by researchers. Using a student-friendly writing style and focusing on methodology, authors Dawn M. McBride and J. Cooper Cutting cover such core content as perception, attention, memory, language, reasoning and problem solving, and cognitive neuroscience. Updates to the Third Edition include a reorganization of core chapters, new research and citations, a new chapter 14 on cognititve development, and a fully executed plan to include more diversity, equity, and inclusion throughout. Table of ContentsChapter 1 • Introduction to Cognitive Psychology Chapter 2 • Cognitive Neuroscience Chapter 3 • Perception Chapter 4 • Attention Chapter 5 • Memory Structures and Processes Chapter 6 • Long-Term Memory Retrieval Chapter 7 • Memory Errors Chapter 8 • Language Chapter 9 • Concepts and Knowledge Chapter 10 • Imagery Chapter 11 • Problem Solving Chapter 12 • Reasoning Chapter 13 • Decision Making Chapter 14 • Cognitive Development

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Book SynopsisVision Perception and Cognition, Fourth Edition is a concisely structured text that expertly addresses clinical reasoning and decision making for the entire evaluation and treatment process of the adult with acquired brain injury. Provided are theoretical information, guidelines for both static and dynamic assessment, information on specific standardized evaluations, guidelines for adaptive and restorative treatment based on described theoretical and evidence-based information, and information on environmental impact of client performance. Inside this best-selling book, Barbara Zoltan, MA, OTR/L addresses visual, perceptual, and cognitive evaluation and treatment, providing structure, clarity, and content suitable for both students and experienced clinicians. Updated and expanded to reflect current practice and relevant research, Vision, Perception, and Cognition, Fourth Edition is a unique resource that takes the reader from theory to practice in a practical and detailed way. Students and clinicians will benefit from the numerous tables, figures, and extensive references presented throughout the text, as well as the inclusion of a glossary, for easy reference to terminology used throughout Vision, Perception, and Cognition, Fourth Edition. Faculty will be impressed by the addition of an on-line instructor’s manual for additional classroom learning objectives and activities. Component areas covered include: • Primary visual skills • Apraxia and agnosia • Visual discrimination skills • Orientation • Attention • Memory • Self-awareness and monitoring • Planning and organization • Problem solving and decision making • Categorization • Mental flexibility • Abstraction • Generalization and transfer • Acalculia New topics addressed in this Fourth Edition: • Constraint-induced therapy • Brain plasticity/Functional reorganization • Neuroimaging • Specific occupation-based models and evaluations • Contextual influence on client performance • Client-centered practice • Client learning capacity • Clinical reasoning • Interviewing • Standardization • Visual vestibular processing • Pupillary response • Contrast sensitivity Whether you are a student or clinician in the area of occupational therapy, physical therapy, neuropsychology, optometry, or speech pathology, Vision, Perception, and Cognition: A Manual for the Evaluation and Treatment of the Adult with Acquired Brain Injury, Fourth Edition will continue to be an invaluable resource for exploring theory and practice in the evaluation and treatment processes. Trade Review“This is a very well researched and referenced text that effectively integrates the author’s many years of experience with research evidence. It provides the student and practicing clinician with many helpful resources, including specific standardized assessments, occupationally based assessments and dynamic assessments as well as additional references to consult for further reading. As each chapter addresses a particular set of deficits and skills, clinicians can also quickly refer to specific chapters of interest as questions arise in their practices.” — Mary Kita, Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy "This book is affordable, and although aimed at occupational therapists, it would be useful for physiotherapists specializing in neurological rehabilitation, and health professionals who wish to understand more about visual, perceptual and cognitive functioning." — Margaret J. Mayston, Physiotherapy "The strength of the book lies in the chapters relating to cognitive-perceptual functions, most of which provide sufficient (but not overwhelming) background material on the function, highly detailed descriptions of evaluation methods, and moderately thorough reviews of treatment interventions. The best discussions relate to evaluation and assessment measures, each of which is a highly detailed set of guidelines that clinicians can readily follow in their patient care activities. This is a useful book for practicing clinicians and students in rehabilitation therapy disciplines, providing the appropriate theoretical and scientific support for certain clinical activities, but mostly providing extensive, detailed, and easy-to-follow guidelines on clinical assessment techniques for patients with cognitive, perceptual, and visual dysfunction. There are several new clinical techniques discussed in this edition that were not included in prior version." — Elliot J. Roth MD, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, Doody Enterprises, Inc.Table of ContentsContents Dedication Acknowledgments About the Author Foreword Preface Chapter 1: Theoretical and Additional Factors Guiding Evaluation and Treatment Section I: Theoretical Basis Theory as a Basis for Evaluation and Treatment Frames of Reference Utilizing a Restorative Conceptual Base: Bottom-Up Approaches Frames of Reference Utilizing an Adaptive Conceptual Base: Top-Down Approaches Section II: Additional Factors Guiding Evaluation and Treatment Client-Centered Practice Client and Family Education The Client's Learning Capacity and Its Influence on Performance Evidence-Based Practice Clinical Reasoning Chapter 2: General Evaluation Issues Top-Down and Bottom-Up Assessments Occupation-Based Evaluations Quantitative (Static) Assessment Qualitative Assessment Clinical Observation Interviewing Dynamic Assessment Test Reliability Test Validity Standardization Test Scoring Administration of Tests Evaluation Choice Chapter 3: Visual Processing Skills Modified Information Processing Theory Warren's Hierarchal Model of Visual Processing Evaluation and Treatment of Visual Skills General Guidelines for Visual Processing Skills Evaluation Pupillary Response Visual Acuity Contrast Sensitivity Ocular Alignment Visual Fields Oculomotor Control Visual Fixation Saccadic Eye Movements Smooth Pursuit Eye Movements Organized Scanning Convergence and Accommodation Diplopia Visual Inattention Visual/Vestibular Processing Chapter 4: Apraxia Ideomotor Apraxia Ideational Apraxia Limb-Kinetic Apraxia Oral Apraxia Constructional Apraxia Dressing Apraxia Chapter 5: Body Scheme Disorders Body Scheme Autotopagnosia Unilateral Body Neglect Anosognosia Right-Left Discrimination Finger Agnosia Chapter 6: Visual Discrimination Skills Form Discrimination Depth Perception (Stereopsis) Figure-Ground Perception Spatial Relations Topographical Disorientation Additional Test Batteries of Visual Discrimination/Perception Chapter 7: Agnosia Visual Agnosia Visual Object Agnosia Prosopagnosia Simultagnosia Color Agnosia Metamorphopsia Visual-Spatial Agnosia Topographagnosia Environmental Agnosia Tactile Agnosia Auditory Agnosia Apractognosia Agnosias Related to Body-Scheme Disorders Chapter 8: Orientation and Attention Orientation Attention Chapter 9: Memory Sensory, Perceptual, and Working Memory Implicit and Explicit Memory Declarative and Nondeclarative (Procedural) Memory Prospective Memory Semantic and Episodic Memory Long-Term Memory Chapter 10: Executive Function Executive Function Section I: Evaluation and Treatment of Self-Awareness and Monitoring Section II: Evaluation and Treatment of Executive Function Initiation Planning and Organization Problem Solving Decision Making Categorization Mental Flexibility Abstraction Generalization and Transfer Section III: Occupation-Based Evaluations of Executive Function Chapter 11: Acalculia Acalculia Chapter 12: Factors That Influence the Client's Vision, Perception, and Cognition The Relationship of Age to Visual, Perceptual, and Cognitive Evaluation and Treatment Sleep Disorders Motivation Depression Behavior and Personality Changes Additional Factors Affecting Performance Chapter 13: The Use of Computers and Computerized Technology in Visual Perceptual, and Cognitive Retraining Computers Computerized Technology Appendix A: Common Statistical Terms and Analyses Used in Clinical Research Studies Appendix B: Evaluation Index Appendix C: Glossary of Terms Index

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Book SynopsisMost human thinking is thoroughly informed by context, but, until recently, theories of reasoning have concentrated on abstract rules and generalities that make no reference to this crucial factor. "Perspectives on Contexts" brings together essays from leading cognitive scientists to forge a vigorous interdisciplinary understanding of the contextual phenomenon. Applicable to human and machine cognition in philosophy, artificial intelligence, and psychology, this volume is essential to the current renaissance in thinking about context.

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Book SynopsisThis volume broadens our concept of reasoning and rationality to allow for a more pluralistic and situational view of human thinking as a practical activity. Drawing on contributors across disciplines including philosophy, economics, psychology, statistics, computer science, engineering, and physics, "Reasoning, Rationality, and Probability" argues that the search for strong theories should leave room for the construction of context-sensitive conceptual tools. Both science and everyday life, the authors argue, are too complex and multifaceted to be forced into ready-made schemata.

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Book SynopsisHere is the ultimate explanation of the brain for everyone who thinks: a guide to how the brain works, how our brains came to operate the way they do, and, most important, how to use your precious gray matter to its full capacity. The brain, according to current research, is not some kind of automatic machine that works independently of its user. In fact, the circuitry of the brain actually changes according to how one uses it. Our brains are continuously developing new capacities and refinements—or losing them, depending upon how we use them. Gerald Hüther takes us on a fascinating tour of the brain''s development—from one-celled organisms to worms, moles, apes, and on to us humans—showing how we truly are what we think: our behavior directly affects our brain capacity. And the behavior that promotes the fullest development of the brain is behavior that balances emotion and intellect, dependence and autonomy, openness and focus, and ultimately expresses itself in such virtues as truthfulness, considerateness, sincerity, humility, and love. Hüther''s user''s-manual approach is humorous and engaging, with a minimum of technical language, yet the book''s message is profound: the fundamental nature of our brains and nervous systems naturally leads to our continued growth in intelligence and humanity.

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Book SynopsisEver been to so many meetings that you couldn't get your work done? Ever fallen asleep during a bulletpoint presentation? Ever watched the news and ended up knowing less? Welcome to the land of Blah Blah Blah.The Problem: We talk so much that we don't think very well. Powerful as words are, we fool ourselves when we think our words alone can detect, describe, and defuse the multifaceted problems of today. They can't-and that's bad, because words have become our default thinking tool.The Solution: This book offers a way out of blah-blah-blah. It's called 'Vivid Thinking.'In Dan Roam's first acclaimed book, The Back of the Napkin, he taught readers how to solve problems and sell ideas by drawing simple pictures. Now he proves that Vivid Thinking is even more powerful. This technique combines our verbal and visual minds so that we can think and learn more quickly, teach and inspire our colleagues, and enjoy and share ideas in a whole new way.The Destination: No more blah-blah-blah. Through Vivid Thinking, we can make the most complicated subjects suddenly crystal clear. Whether trying to understand a Harvard Business School class, or what went down in the Conan versus Leno battle for late-night TV, or what Einstein thought about relativity, Vivid Thinking provides a way to clarify anything.Through dozens of guided examples, Roam proves that anyone can apply this systematic approach, from leftbrain types who hate to draw to right-brainers who hate to write. This isn't just a book about improving communications, presentations, and ideation; it's about removing the blah-blah- blah from your life for good.

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Book SynopsisThe blockbuster phenomenon that charts an amazing journey of the mind while revolutionizing our concept of memory“Highly entertaining.” —Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker“Funny, curious, erudite, and full of useful details about ancient techniques of training memory.” —The Boston GlobeAn instant bestseller that has now become a classic, Moonwalking with Einstein recounts Joshua Foer's yearlong quest to improve his memory under the tutelage of top mental athletes. He draws on cutting-edge research, a surprising cultural history of remembering, and venerable tricks of the mentalist's trade to transform our understanding of human memory. From the United States Memory Championship to deep within the author's own mind, this is an electrifying work of journalism that reminds us that, in every way that matters, we are the sum of our memories.

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Book SynopsisSuzanne Farrell Smith’s father was killed by a drunk driver when she was six, and a devastating fire nearly destroyed her house when she was eight. She remembers those two—and only those two—events from her first nearly twelve years of life. While her three older sisters hold on to rich and rewarding memories of their father, Smith recalls nothing of him. Her entire childhood was, seemingly, erased. In The Memory Sessions, Smith attempts to excavate lost childhood memories. She puts herself through multiple therapies and exercises, including psychotherapy, hypnotherapy, somatic experiencing, and acupuncture. She digs for clues in her mother’s long-stored boxes. She creates—with objects, photographs, and captions—a physical timeline to compensate for the one that’s missing in her memory. She travels to San Diego, where her family vacationed with her father right before he died. She researches, interviews, and meditates, all while facing down the two traumatic memories that defined her early life. The result is an experimental memoir that upends our understanding of the genre. Rather than recount a childhood, The Memory Sessions attempts to create one from research, archives, imagination, and the memories of others. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.Trade Review"The Memory Sessions is a beautiful, haunting, lyrical memoir that will prompt readers to consider their own memories in new, startling, and important ways. Not only is Suzanne Farrell Smith a masterful storyteller, she is wise and brave, as is this book." -- Connie May Fowler * author of Before Women had Wings and A Million Fragile Bones *"Suzanne Farrell Smith’s debut memoir triumphs over a seemingly insurmountable challenge: psychological awakening from years of traumatic erasure. 'I aim for a cloud,' she explains, trying to center herself, 'which is nothing, which has no beginning, no history, no end, no form.' And yet, from her amorphous journeys she miraculously creates the solidity of wisdom. Lovingly researched and exquisitely crafted, her reflections fall upon the reader like dazzling sunshowers from nearly cloudless skies." -- Sascha Feinstein * author of Wreckage: My Father’s Legacy of Art & Junk *"From its electrifying, heartbreaking opening sentence, Suzanne Farrell Smith’s memoir is a meticulous, brave, beautifully rendered attempt to retrieve a forgotten past. That she achieves a kind of closure, despite overwhelming impediments, is a testament to her will, and to her artistry." -- Robert Leonard Reid * author of Because It Is So Beautiful: Unraveling the Mystique of the American West *"Writing Small Moments: A Conversation with Suzanne Farrell Smith" by Donna Tallent https://therumpus.net/2020/05/the-rumpus-interview-with-suzanne-farrell-smith/ * The Rumpus *Table of Contents I The Bridge Time of Death Blaze of Gloria Table for Five Bridges and Tunnels II A Peculiar Darkness Going on a Hunt Of Myth and Memory III To Light Another Version of Us To Make One’s Way through the Earth The Death Thing Everything Reaches to Light

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Book SynopsisOne of “the most comprehensive, erudite, and timely” explorations of power dynamics and authoritarianism in religions, institutions, relationships and even personal struggles (San Francisco Chronicle Book Review)Authoritarian control, which once held societies together, is now at the core of personal, social, and planetary problems, and thus a key factor in social disintegration. Authoritarianism is embedded in the way people think—hiding in culture, values, daily life, and in the very morality people try to live by.In The Guru Papers, authors Joel Kramer and Diana Alstad unmask authoritarianism in areas such as relationships, cults, 12-step groups, religion, and contemporary morality. Chapters on addiction and love show the insidious nature of authoritarian values and ideologies in the most intimate corners of life, offering new frameworks for understanding why people get addicted and why intimacy is laden with conflict. By exposing the inner authoritarian that people use to control themselves and others, the authors show why people give up their power, and how others get and maintain it.

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Book SynopsisADD: The 20-Hour Solution explains how EEG biofeedback (neurofeedback) addresses the underlying problem and characteristics of ADD and ADHD, so that symptoms resolve and tangible improvement results. This book describes the method by which we can improve the brain's ability to pay attention and regulate its behavior. It explains the self-healing capacities of the human brain and how it can learn or re-learn the self-regulatory mechanisms that are basic to its normal design and function. This book shows:.What ADD really is and how the brain maintains self-regulation.How and why EEG biofeedback (neurofeedback) helps people with ADD.What parents can do to get their child on-track to healthy adjustment and development.How to talk to doctors, therapists, teachers, and others about ADD.Good assessment procedures and how they contribute to effective treatment.How self-control, personal choice, and responsibility for one's behavior relate to scientific principles of brain functioning.How to find appropriate resources and get started with neurotherapyThe book also lists specific up-to-date resources on where to find information on EEG neurofeedback and how to find providers throughout the world.

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Book SynopsisBased on the earlier work of Dr. Robert J. Marzano, this instructional guide provides explicit steps, examples, and adaptations to help educators effectively teach students how to record and represent knowledge.

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Book SynopsisIn this pioneering book, Joseph Shaules presents exciting new research from cultural psychology and neuroscience. It sheds light on the hidden influence of culture on the unconscious mind, and helps people get more out of their intercultural journeys.The Intercultural Mind presents new perspectives on important questions such as: What is culture shock, and how does it affect us? Why are we blind to our own cultural conditioning? Can cultural differences be measured? What does it mean to have an international mindset? Illustrated with a wealth of examples and memorable stories, The Intercultural Mind is a fascinating look at how intercultural experiences can transform the geography of our minds.Trade ReviewIt was about time that someone put it all together in understandable language! Besides the best and latest insights from research around human cognition and culture, Shaules book contains very useful examples that can form a basis for creating and facilitating learning activities. A milestone which will contribute toward the achievement of human peace in our multicultural world. * SIETAR Europa Journal *Shaules seamlessly compares and intertwines recent neuroscientific research with traditional perspectives and theories. A very readable presentation on how what we currently label cognition and culture interact. * Human Technology: An Interdisciplinary Journal on Humans in ICT Environments *A fascinating and important book about understanding cross-culturalism. Lively, well-written, incisive, and fun to read. -- Robert Whiting, Pulitzer Prize, nominee and bestselling author of Tokyo UnderworldA much-needed exploration drawing on neuroscience, cultural psychology, and exciting reports from the field. Joseph Shaules goes beyond the excellence of his previous books. -- Stefan Meister, Managing Director, InterculturesThe Intercultural Mind provides an accessible and intelligent introduction to the potential blend of cultural neuroscience and intercultural competence. This topic will surely be influential in the future of the field. -- Janet Marie Bennett, Executive Director, Intercultural Communication Institute

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Book SynopsisA World of Many explores the world-making efforts of Tzotzil Maya children from two different localities within the municipality of Chenalhó, Chiapas. The research demonstrates children’s agency in creating their worlds, while also investigating the role played by the surrounding social and physical environment. Different experiences with schooling, parenting, goals and values, but also with climate change, water scarcity, as well as racism and settler colonialism form part of the reason children create their emerging worlds. These worlds are not make believe or anything less than the ontological products of their parents. Instead, Norbert Ross argues that by creating different worlds, the children ultimately fashion themselves into different human beings - quite literally being different in the world. A World of Many combines experimental research from the cognitive sciences with critical theory, exploring children’s agency in devising their own ontologies. Rather than treating children as somewhat incomplete humans, it understands children as tinkerers and thinkers, makers of their worlds amidst complex relations. It regards being as a constant ontological production, where life and living constitutes activism. Using experimental paradigms, the book shows that children locate themselves differently in these emerging worlds they create, becoming different human beings in the process.Trade Review"Norbert Ross questions the foundations of everything—the architecture of reality, knowledge, and learning—in his investigations of the Mexican community of Chenalhó. The observations and experiences of Tzotzil maya children help us understand what it is to be human, to be alive, and to have a soul and how life is activism. This methodologically innovative and theoretically intricate project invites readers to appreciate in a nuanced and profound way diversity in humanity and ways of being in the world." -- Kathryn Sampeck * co-editor of Substance and Seduction: Ingested Commodities in early Modern Mesoamerica *"I love books like this that challenge us to turn our thinking about ontology upside down. Scholars of young people often begin by examining what ontology teaches about childhood. We can forget how valuable it is to explore how notions of childhood actually reshape ontology. A World of Many is a successful experiment in inverting our assumptions about what we think we know about what we know." -- Rachael Stryker * co-editor of Up, Down, and Sideways: Anthropologists Trace the Pathways of Powe *Table of Contents 1 Introduction 2 A World Where Other Worlds Can Be at Home 3 Ontology and Resistance 4 Folk-Biological Knowledge, Education, and Framework Theories 5 Study Design and Methods 6 Complexity, Niche Theory, and Cultural Models 7 From Subsistence to Extraction: Globalization, Change, and Spatial Organization in Chenalhó 8 Knowledge Sources and Learning Biases: Experience, Values, and Ontologies 9 Growing Up in Chenalhó: Knowledge Sources and the Spatial Distribution of Change and Modernity 10 What Is It Called? Plant Knowledge in Chenalhó 11 Concepts of “Alive and “Living Kinds”: Experience, Culture, and Ontology 12 How Alive Is It? Revisiting the Concept of “Alive” 13 Being in Space 14 One of Many: The Making of a Diversity of WorldsAcknowledgments Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisWhat is it about human beings that makes us creative, able to imagine and enact new possibilities for life and new solutions to problems in a way that no other animal can? The authors included in The Genesis of Creativity and the Origin of the Human Mind explore this question in essays and studies from a range of specializations and backgrounds. Experts on culture, art, and evolution come together to describe, analyze, and interpret the origins of artistic creativity and the anatomical and neurological structures that contribute to it. Essays focus on the origins of art in the Upper Palaeolithic as well as on manifestations of artistic creativity in preliterary societies and tribal cultures that have been preserved to the present day. The interdisciplinary approach to the topic accentuates the wide array of possible methodologies and interpretations of artistic manifestations in particular historic and cultural contexts.

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