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  • Duality of the Mind

    A Bottom-up Approach Toward Cognition

    by Ron Sun ...
    This book is a condensation of a large body of work concerning human learning carried out over a period of more than five years by Dr. Sun and his collaborators. In a nutshell, this work is concerned with a broad framework for studying human cognition based on a new approach that is characterized by its focus on the dichotomy of, and the interaction between, explicit and implicit cognition and a ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Computational Cognitive Sciences

    Edited by Ron Sun ...
    Series series Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology
    The Cambridge Handbook of Computational Cognitive Sciences is a comprehensive reference for this rapidly developing and highly interdisciplinary field. Written with both newcomers and experts in mind, it provides an accessible introduction of paradigms, methodologies, approaches, and models, with ample detail and illustrated by examples. It should appeal to researchers and students working within ... Read more

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  • Connectionist-Symbolic Integration

    From Unified to Hybrid Approaches

    Edited by Ron Sun, Frederic Alexandre ...
    A variety of ideas, approaches, and techniques exist -- in terms of both architecture and learning -- and this abundance seems to lead to many exciting possibilities in terms of theoretical advances and application potentials. Despite the apparent diversity, there is clearly an underlying unifying theme: architectures that bring together symbolic and connectionist models to achieve a synthesis and ... Read more

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  • Problem Solving

    Perspectives from Cognition and Neuroscience

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  • The Psychology of Second Language Acquisition

    Series series Oxford Applied Linguistics
    The Psychology of Second Language Acquisition offers a systematic and accessible overview of the main psychological areas and theories in order to keep abreast of the ongoing paradigm shift. ... Read more

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  • After Phrenology

    Neural Reuse and the Interactive Brain

    A proposal for a fully post-phrenological neuroscience that details the evolutionary roots of functional diversity in brain regions and networks.The computer analogy of the mind has been as widely adopted in contemporary cognitive neuroscience as was the analogy of the brain as a collection of organs in phrenology. Just as the phrenologist would insist that each organ must have its particular ... Read more

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  • The Measure of Madness

    Philosophy of Mind, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Delusional Thought

    Series series Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psychology
    Drawing on the latest work in cognitive neuroscience, a philosopher proposes that delusions are narrative models that accommodate anomalous experiences.In The Measure of Madness, Philip Gerrans offers a novel explanation of delusion. Over the last two decades, philosophers and cognitive scientists have investigated explanations of delusion that interweave philosophical questions about the nature ... Read more

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  • Cognitive Development

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    In this accessible introduction, Mike Sharwood Smith provides a working model or 'map' of the mind, with language as its centrepiece. Drawing on cutting-edge research across linguistics, psychology and neuroscience, it allows students to quickly grasp how each separate aspect of the mind's operations can be related. This 'big picture' view includes the way the mind makes, stores and loses memories ... Read more

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  • Beyond Evolutionary Psychology

    How and Why Neuropsychological Modules Arise

    Series series Culture and Psychology
    The nature/nurture question is an age-old problem. Beyond Evolutionary Psychology deals with the relation between culture, evolution, psychology and emotion, based both in the underlying biology, determined by our evolutionary heritage, and in the interaction of our brain with the physical, ecological and social environment, based in the key property of brain plasticity. Ellis and Solms show how ... Read more

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  • Early Childhood Mathematics Education Research

    Learning Trajectories for Young Children

    Series series Studies in Mathematical Thinking and Learning Series
    This important new book synthesizes relevant research on the learning of mathematics from birth into the primary grades from the full range of these complementary perspectives. At the core of early math experts Julie Sarama and Douglas Clements's theoretical and empirical frameworks are learning trajectories—detailed descriptions of children’s thinking as they learn to achieve specific goals in a ... Read more

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