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Memory and Movies: What Films Can Teach Us about Memory
"In the movie Slumdog Millionaire, the childhood memories of a young game show contestant trigger his correct answers. In Memento, the amnesiac hero uses tattoos as memory aids. In Away from Her, an older woman suffering from dementia no longer remembers who her husband is. These are compelling films that tell affecting stories about the human condition. But what can these movies teach us about…
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- 9780262330657
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- 1 online resource (xxv, 291 pages)
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White Queen psychology and other essays for Alice
A Bradford book.""This collection of essays serves both as an introduction to Ruth Millikan's much-discussed volume Language, Thought, and Other Biological Categories and as an extension and application of Millikan's central themes, especially in the philosophy of psychology.The title essay discusses meaning rationalism and argues that rationality is not in the head, indeed, that there is no le…
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- 1st MIT Press pbk. ed.
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- 9780262279901
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- 1 online resource (xii, 387 pages).
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Body Am I: The New Science of Self-Consciousness
"Costandi explains the neuroscience behind how we view our selves and our bodies, drawing from neurological studies on our sense of agency and free will, the neural correlates of mental representations, mirror neurons, and how the brain perceives timing and sensory consequences. He explores case studies of amputees with phantom limb syndrome, people with Body Integrity Identity Disorder (who ha…
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Words, thoughts, and theories
"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262274098
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 268 pages).
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The hidden powers of ritual :the journey of a lifetime
"An overview of the development and importance of ritual in every day life, written by a leading cognitive anthropologist"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262376549
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The entangled brain :how perception, cognition, and emotion are woven together
"A general overview of the systems neuroscience approach written by a leading figure in the field"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262372107
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Snapshots of the mind
"A collection of short, accessible essays by one of the leading practitioners of Naturalistic Decision Making"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262371510
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- 1 online resource.
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The secret life of literature
"A leading practitioner of 'cognitive aesthetics' shows how narrative literature works its magic on readers by drawing surreptitiously on patterns developed over four thousand years ago"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262367653
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- 1 online resource.
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Musical bodies, musical minds :enactive cognitive science and the meaning of …
"An attempt to explain musical cognition from the perspective of embodied cognitive science. Emphasizes interactive sense-making with the environment rather than internal neural mechanisms"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262370336
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The mindconsciousness, prediction, and the brain
An accessible and engaging account of the mind and its connection to the brain. The mind encompasses everything we experience, and these experiences are created by the brain--often without our awareness. Experience is private; we can't know the minds of others. But we also don't know what is happening in our own minds. In this book, E. Bruce Goldstein offers an accessible and engaging account o…
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