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The psychology of art and the evolution of the conscious brain
How did the human brain evolve so that consciousness of art could develop? In The Psychology of Art and the Evolution of the Conscious Brain, Robert Solso describes how a consciousness that evolved for other purposes perceives and creates art. Drawing on his earlier book Cognition and the Visual Arts and ten years of new findings in cognitive research (as well as new ideas in anthropology and a…
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- 1 online resource (xv, 278 pages) :illustrations.
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Psychology :the hope of a science
"A Bradford book."At a time in the history of psychology when many psychologists are troubled by the splintered condition of the field, Gregory Kimble proposes that the diverse perspectives in psychology share ways of thinking that can bring coherence to the discipline. Drawing on years of extensive research and scholarship, Kimble presents evidence for this potential unity. He portrays psychol…
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- 0585021317
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- 1 online resource (xii, 153 pages) :illustrations
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The psychobiology of down syndrome
This book covers recent research with neurobiological and cognitive features of Down syndrome. This book covers recent research with neurobiological and cognitive features of Down syndrome. There has been notable progress in understanding the psychobiological concomitants of Down syndrome. New data have pinpointed selective neurological defects, and recent research has revealed that it is possi…
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- 1 online resource (496 pages).
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Psychiatry in the scientific image
An analysis of the understanding, classification, and explanation of mental disorders that proposes that psychiatry adopt the best practices of the cognitive sciences.In Psychiatry in the Scientific Image, Dominic Murphy looks at psychiatry from the viewpoint of analytic philosophy of science, considering three issues: how we should conceive of, classify, and explain mental illness. If someone …
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- 0262517442
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- 1 online resource (xi, 410 pages) :illustrations.
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The provisional city :Los Angeles stories of architecture and urbanism
How the modern city is formed through an endless cycle of upheavals, demolition, and debate. The provisional city is one of constant erasure and eruption. Through what Dana Cuff calls a "convulsive urban act," developers both public and private demolish an urban site and disband its inhabitants, replacing it with some vision of a better life that leaves no trace of the former structure. Archite…
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- 1 online resource (x, 380 pages) :illustrations, maps
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Protocol :how control exists after decentralization
How Control Exists after DecentralizationIs the Internet a vast arena of unrestricted communication and freely exchanged information or a regulated, highly structured virtual bureaucracy? In Protocol, Alexander Galloway argues that the founding principle of the Net is control, not freedom, and that the controlling power lies in the technical protocols that make network connections (and disconne…
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- 9780262273428
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- 1 online resource (xxvi, 260 pages) :illustrations.
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Protocol analysis :verbal reports as data
Title from title screen (viewed October 24, 2005).OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262272391
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- 1 online resource (liii, 443 pages)
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A Prosodic Model of Sign Language Phonology.
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- 9780262269261
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Proof, language, and interaction :essays in honour of Robin Milner
This collection of original essays reflects the breadth of current research in computer science.This collection of original essays reflects the breadth of current research in computer science. Robin Milner, a major figure in the field, has made many fundamental contributions, particularly in theoretical computer science, the theory of programming languages, and functional programming languages.…
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- 0585388903
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 722 pages) :illustrations.
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Prolegomenon to a theory of argument structure
This work is the culmination of an eighteen-year collaboration between Ken Hale and Samuel Jay Keyser on the study of the syntax of lexical items. It examines the hypothesis that the behavior of lexical items may be explained in terms of a very small number of very simple principles. In particular, a lexical item is assumed to project a syntactic configuration defined over just two relations, c…
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- 1 online resource (x, 281 pages) :illustrations.
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