This open access book explores the expectations surrounding dementia, what it ‘looks like’ and how people have been treated by others. It aims to raise awareness of the different types of dementia, and how they impact the brain, body, and lived experience, including experience of Alzheimer’s disease, Vascular Dementia, Posterior Cortical Atrophy, Frontotemporal Dementia, Semantic Dementia…
"A Bradford book."In recent decades, empathy research has blossomed into a vibrant and multidisciplinary field of study. This text collects cross-disciplinary, cutting-edge work on human empathy from the perspectives of social, cognitive, developmental and clinincal psychology and cognitive/affective neuroscience.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
This volume has been prepared at the request of many teachers and Inspectors that I should publish some of my lec¬ tures on the Psychology, Principles and Practice of Education, which have been given from time to time before Teachers’ Asso¬ ciations. It was urged that though there are many excellent books on general Psychology, there is still room for one which more directly meets the needs…
"A Bradford Book."A proposal for merging a science of human consciousness with neuroscience and psychology. The study of consciousness has advanced rapidly over the last two decades. And yet there is no clear path to creating models for a direct science of human experience or for integrating its insights with those of neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy. In Inner Experience and Neuroscienc…
Episodic memory proves essential for daily function, allowing us to remember where we parked the car, what time we walked the dog, or what a friend said earlier. In this book, Hasselmo presents a new model describing the brain mechanisms for encoding and remembering an episode as a spatiotemporal trajectory.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
This text offers a simple model of reasoning about reason as a framework for its discussions. Following this framework, the contributors consider meta-level control of computational activities, introspective monitoring, distributed meta-reasoning, and, putting all these aspects of meta- reasoning together.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…
The cultural and political implications of research on emotions and recent studies of the "essential difference" in male and female brains and behaviors.The now-popular idea that emotions have an intelligent core (and the reverse, that intelligence has an emotional core) comes from the neurosciences and psychology. Similarly, the fundamental sexualization of the brain--the new interest in "esse…
J. E. R. Staddon's colleagues and former students discuss Staddon's work as a "theoretical behaviorist" and his influence on their own research.John Staddon has devoted his long and distinguished career to the study of the adaptive function and mechanisms of learning. He did his graduate work at the famous Skinner Lab at Harvard in the early 1960s (supervised by Richard Herrnstein, who did his …
The idea that a specific brain circuit constitutes the emotional brain shaped thinking about emotion and the brain for many years. Recent behavioural, neuropsychological, neuroanatomy, and neuroimaging research, however, suggests that emotion interacts with cognition in the brain. In this book, Luiz Pessoa moves beyond the debate over functional specialization, describing the many ways that emo…