"Adults who want to learn a foreign language are often discouraged because they believe they cannot acquire a language as easily as children. Once they begin to learn a language, adults may be further discouraged when they find the methods used to teach children don't seem to work for them. What is an adult language learner to do? In this book, Richard Roberts and Roger Kreuz draw on insights f…
A comprehensive account of cognitive scaffolding and its significance for understanding mental disorders.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"A Bradford book."A collection of cutting-edge work on cognition and a celebration of a foundational figure in the field.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"A Bradford book."In this work, John Bolender proposes a new explanation for the forms of social relations. He argues that the core of social-relational cognition exhibits beauty - in the physicist's sense of the word, associated with symmetry.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
This text is an overview of current research at the intersection of psychology and biology which integrates evolutionary and developmental data and explanations.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Over the past few years, computer modeling has become more prevalent in the clinical sciences as an alternative to traditional symbol-processing models. This book provides an introduction to the neural network modeling of complex cognitive and neuropsychological processes. It is intended to make the neural network approach accessible to practicing neuropsychologists, psychologists, neurologists…
"A Bradford book.""In Human Reasoning and Cognitive Science, Keith Stenning and Michiel van Lambalgen - a cognitive scientist and a logician - argue for the indispensability of modern mathematical logic to the study of human reasoning. Logic and cognition were once closely connected, they write, but were "divorced" in the past century; the psychology of deduction went from being central to the …
Is there is a moral imperative on physicians to refer patients with mental depression for psychotherapy rather that treating the ailment with drugs? Psychotherapy, in particular cognitive behavior therapy, promotes autonomy & it is the loss of autonomy, argues Paul Biegler, that is at the heart of depression.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"A Bradford book.""Based on an International CNRS Summer School organized by the Association pour la Recherche Cognitive (ARC), held from 29 May to 03 June 2006, Ile d'Ol?eron, France"--Text.This book presents the framework for a new, comprehensive approach to cognitive science. The proposed paradigm, enaction, offers an alternative to cognitive science's classical, first-generation Computation…
"A Bradford book."Dynamical Cognitive Science makes available to the cognitive science community the analytical tools and techniques of dynamical systems science, adding the variables of change and time to the study of human cognition. The unifying theme is that human behavior is an "unfolding in time" whose study should be augmented by the application of time-sensitive tools from disciplines s…