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  • Empiricism and Language Learnability

    by Nick Chater, Alexander Clark, John A. Goldsmith, Amy Perfors ...
    This interdisciplinary new work explores one of the central theoretical problems in linguistics: learnability. The authors, from different backgrounds---linguistics, philosophy, computer science, psychology and cognitive science-explore the idea that language acquisition proceeds through general purpose learning mechanisms, an approach that is broadly empiricist both methodologically and ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

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  • Introducing Psycholinguistics

    by Paul Warren ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Language and Linguistics
    How humans produce and understand language is clearly introduced in this textbook for students with only a basic knowledge of linguistics. With a logical, flexible structure Introducing Psycholinguistics steps through the central topics of production and comprehension of language and the interaction between them. Students will gain an understanding of the processes and representations involved in ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • Do Zombies Dream of Undead Sheep?

    A Neuroscientific View of the Zombie Brain

    by Timothy Verstynen, Bradley Voytek ...
    A look at the true nature of the zombie brainEven if you've never seen a zombie movie or television show, you could identify an undead ghoul if you saw one. With their endless wandering, lumbering gait, insatiable hunger, antisocial behavior, and apparently memory-less existence, zombies are the walking nightmares of our deepest fears. What do these characteristic behaviors reveal about the inner ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Dark Matter of the Mind

    The Culturally Articulated Unconscious

    by Daniel L. Everett ...
    From a linguist and anthropologist, "a fascinating argument" about culture, cognition, and the concept of human nature ( Choice).Is it in our nature to be altruistic, or evil, to make art, use tools, or create language? Is it in our nature to think in any particular way? For Daniel L. Everett, the answer is a resounding no: it isn't in our nature to do any of these things because human nature does ... Read more

    $24.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Language and Music as Cognitive Systems

    Edited by Patrick Rebuschat, Martin Rohrmeier, John A. Hawkins, Ian Cross ...
    The past 15 years have witnessed an increasing interest in the comparative study of language and music as cognitive systems. Language and music are uniquely human traits, so it is not surprising that this interest spans practically all branches of cognitive science, including psychology, computer science, linguistics, cognitive neuroscience, and education. Underlying the study of language and ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • A History of Psycholinguistics

    The Pre-Chomskyan Era

    by Willem Levelt ...
    How do we manage to speak and understand language? How do children acquire these skills and how does the brain support them?These psycholinguistic issues have been studied for more than two centuries. Though many Psycholinguists tend to consider their history as beginning with the Chomskyan "cognitive revolution" of the late 1950s/1960s, the history of empirical psycholinguistics actually goes ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Cultural Development of Mathematical Ideas

    Papua New Guinea Studies

    by Geoffrey B. Saxe ...
    Series series Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives
    Drawing upon field studies conducted in 1978, 1980 and 2001 with the Oksapmin, a remote Papua New Guinea group, Geoffrey B. Saxe traces the emergence of new forms of numerical representations and ideas in the social history of the community. In traditional life, the Oksapmin used a counting system that makes use of twenty-seven parts of the body; there is no evidence that the group used arithmetic ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • The Ancient Origins of Consciousness

    How the Brain Created Experience

    by Todd E. Feinberg, Jon M. Mallatt ...
    How consciousness appeared much earlier in evolutionary history than is commonly assumed, and why all vertebrates and perhaps even some invertebrates are conscious.How is consciousness created? When did it first appear on Earth, and how did it evolve? What constitutes consciousness, and which animals can be said to be sentient? In this book, Todd Feinberg and Jon Mallatt draw on recent scientific ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Human Development, Language and the Future of Mankind

    The Madness of Culture

    by L. Berger ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Drawing on and integrating unorthodox thought from a broad range of disciplines including clinical psychology, linguistics, philosophy, natural science and psychoanalysis, this book offers a provocative, original analysis of the global threats to our survival, and proposes a remedy. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Reading as a Perceptual Process

    Edited by A. Kennedy, D. Heller, J. Pynte, Ralph Radach ...
    This book is divided into five sections dealing with various fundamental issues in current research: attention, information processing and eye movement control; the role of phonology in reading; syntax and discourse processing and computational models and simulations. Control and measurement of eye movements form a prominent theme in the book. A full understanding of the where and when of eye ... Read more

    $224.99 USD

  • The Varieties of Orthographic Knowledge

    II: Relationships to Phonology, Reading, and Writing

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

    $143.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Science

    Edited by Susan E. F. Chipman ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Cognitive Science is an avowedly multidisciplinary field, drawing upon many traditional disciplines or research areas--including Linguistics, Neuroscience, Philosophy, Psychology, Anthropology, Artificial Intelligence, and Education--that contribute to our understanding of cognition. Just as learning and memory cannot truly prove effective as disconnected studies, practical applications of ... Read more

    $154.79 USD