Cognitive Patterns

Cognitive Patterns

Author: Karen M. Gardner

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1998-04-28

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 9780521649988

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Presents the concepts and terminology of cognitive patterns and modeling and explains the uniqueness of cognitive patterns as an approach in modeling business systems and processes.


Joint Cognitive Systems

Joint Cognitive Systems

Author: Erik Hollnagel

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2005-02-28

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 1420038192

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Nothing has been more prolific over the past century than human/machine interaction. Automobiles, telephones, computers, manufacturing machines, robots, office equipment, machines large and small; all affect the very essence of our daily lives. However, this interaction has not always been efficient or easy and has at times turned fairly hazardous.


Cognitive Foundations of Linguistic Usage Patterns

Cognitive Foundations of Linguistic Usage Patterns

Author: Hans-Jörg Schmid

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2010-03-26

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 3110216035

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The volume presents an up-to-date collection of methodologically sensitive contributions providing mainly enthusiastic, at times also critical support for the cognitive-linguistic enterprise. The book is important for the advancement of cognitive linguistics because the contributions demonstrate the seriousness of its ambitions to develop into a set of testable linguistic approaches. For the same reason, the volume is a contribution to our understanding of language in general, since it puts a promising modern approach on firmer ground. Assets of the book include the wide range of linguistic phenomena studied (individual concepts, fundamental semantic problems like vagueness and polysemy, grammatical issues incl. gender and tense, collocations, constructions and speech acts) and the scope of applied perspectives including lexicographical, computational, developmental and critical discourse ones. The languages investigated are English, German, Dutch, Polish and Italian. Common to the contributions is the desire to bring together observed patterns of linguistic usage with concepts and models established in cognitive linguistics. In addition, all contributions have an empirical basis and emphasize the need to rely on a sound methodology. The linguistic phenomena investigated span the range from the lexico-conceptual and collocational level to constructions, grammatical categories and functions. Two complementary perspectives of language and cognition are represented in the volume: In one group, the established methods of psycholinguistic experimentation, quantitative corpus analysis and computational simulation are exploited to demonstrate the viability and to increase the plausibility of cognitive-linguistic thinking. The second group tests well-known cognitive-linguistic approaches like Conceptual Metaphor Theory, the Theory of Idealized Cognitive Models and Construction Grammar against authentic data demonstrating their applicability and explanatory potential. Both groups include contributions reaching beyond the scope of traditional cognitive-linguistic topics, e.g. by taking a critical stance of reductionist cognitive thinking. The volume is of interest to cognitive linguists, psycholinguists, theoretical linguists, lexicologists, and lexicographers.


Patterns, Thinking, and Cognition

Patterns, Thinking, and Cognition

Author: Howard Margolis

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 9780226505282

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What happens when we think? How do people make judgments? While different theories abound—and are heatedly debated—most are based on an algorithmic model of how the brain works. Howard Margolis builds a fascinating case for a theory that thinking is based on recognizing patterns and that this process is intrinsically a-logical. Margolis gives a Darwinian account of how pattern recognition evolved to reach human cognitive abilities. Illusions of judgment—standard anomalies where people consistently misjudge or misperceive what is logically implied or really present—are often used in cognitive science to explore the workings of the cognitive process. The explanations given for these anomalous results have generally explained only the anomaly under study and nothing more. Margolis provides a provocative and systematic analysis of these illusions, which explains why such anomalies exist and recur. Offering empirical applications of his theory, Margolis turns to historical cases to show how an individual's cognitive repertoire—the available cognitive patterns and their relation to cues—changes or resists changes over time. Here he focuses on the change in worldview occasioned by the Copernican discovery: not only how an individual might come to see things in a radically new way, but how it is possible for that new view to spread and become the dominant one. A reanalysis of the trial of Galileo focuses on social cognition and its interactions with politics. In challenging the prevailing paradigm for understanding how the human mind works, Patterns, Thinking, and Cognition is certain to stimulate fruitful debate.


The Feeling Good Handbook

The Feeling Good Handbook

Author: David D. Burns

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 1999-05-01

Total Pages: 769

ISBN-13: 0452281326

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From the author of the national bestseller Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy comes a guide to mental wellness that helps you get beyond depression and anxiety and make life an exhilarating experience! With his phenomenally successful Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy, Dr. David Burns introduced a groundbreaking, drug-free treatment for depression. In this bestselling companion, he reveals powerful new techniques and provides step-by-step exercises that help you cope with the full range of everyday problems. • Free yourself from fears, phobias, and panic attacks. • Overcome self-defeating attitudes. • Discover the five secrets of intimate communication. • Put an end to marital conflict. • Conquer procrastination and unleash your potential for success. With everything you need to know about commonly prescribed psychiatric drugs and anxiety disorders, such as agoraphobia and obsessive-compulsive disorder, this remarkable guide can show you how to feel good about yourself and the people you care about. You will discover that life can be an exhilarating experience. “A wonderful achievement—the best in its class.”—M. Anthony Bates, clinical psychologist at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center in Philadelphia “Clear, systematic, forceful.”—Albert Ellis, PhD, president of the Albert Ellis Institute


Joint Cognitive Systems

Joint Cognitive Systems

Author: David D. Woods

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2006-03-27

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 1420005685

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Our fascination with new technologies is based on the assumption that more powerful automation will overcome human limitations and make our systems 'faster, better, cheaper,' resulting in simple, easy tasks for people. But how does new technology and more powerful automation change our work? Research in Cognitive Systems Engineering (CSE) l


Feeling Good

Feeling Good

Author: David D. Burns, M.D.

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2012-11-20

Total Pages: 738

ISBN-13: 0062136496

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National Bestseller – More than five million copies sold worldwide! From renowned psychiatrist Dr. David D. Burns, the revolutionary volume that popularized Dr. Aaron T. Beck’s cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and has helped millions combat feelings of depression and develop greater self-esteem. Anxiety and depression are the most common mental illnesses in the world, affecting 18% of the U.S. population every year. But for many, the path to recovery seems daunting, endless, or completely out of reach. The good news is that anxiety, guilt, pessimism, procrastination, low self-esteem, and other "black holes" of depression can be alleviated. In Feeling Good, eminent psychiatrist, David D. Burns, M.D., outlines the remarkable, scientifically proven techniques that will immediately lift your spirits and help you develop a positive outlook on life, enabling you to: Nip negative feelings in the bud Recognize what causes your mood swings Deal with guilt Handle hostility and criticism Overcome addiction to love and approval Build self-esteem Feel good every day This groundbreaking, life-changing book has helped millions overcome negative thoughts and discover joy in their daily lives. You owe it to yourself to FEEL GOOD! "I would personally evaluate David Burns' Feeling Good as one of the most significant books to come out of the last third of the Twentieth Century."—Dr. David F. Maas, Professor of English, Ambassador University


COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT THEORY

COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT THEORY

Author: ZHI CHENG

Publisher: American Academic Press

Published: 2019-11-04

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 1631816446

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Most recently, people have achieved great success in researching artificial neural network technology in the field of artificial intelligence. Can we draw inspiration from the theory and techniques of artificial neural networks to study human brain neural networks? Some researchers have already noticed this and got certain achievements. But the achievements have been scattered into many academic journals around the world, and it is difficult for readers to obtain a complete message. In addition, from the perspective of the current achievements, it seems that only using of artificial neural network theory and technology to study human brain cognitive processes is not enough. The synthesis of knowledges in cognitive science, physics, computer science, and education is required. How to integrate these interdisciplinary knowledges is also a major challenge to the study of human brain neural networks. Therefore, it is necessary to write a book that can synthesize the latest achievements in related fields. A fully interconnected neural network is used to build a simplified model of the brain neural network in this book. And then the program simulation approach is used to analyze the laws of cognition. A more comprehensive understanding of the law of cognitive development of a person's life can be reached by combining with macroscopic dynamic analysis.


Cognitive History

Cognitive History

Author: David Dunér

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2019-03-04

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 3110579847

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This book is the first introduction to the new field called cognitive history. The last decades have seen a noticeable increase in cognitive science studies that have changed the understanding of human thinking. Its relevance for historical research cannot be overlooked any more. Cognitive history could be explained as the study of how humans in history used their cognitive abilities in order to understand the world around them and to orient themselves in it, but also how the world outside their bodies affected their way of thinking. In focus for this book is the relationship between history and cognition, the human mind’s interaction with the environment in time and space. It especially discusses certain cognitive abilities in interaction with the environment, which can be studied in historical sources, namely: evolution, language, rationality, spatiality, and materiality. Cognitive history can give us a deeper understanding of how – and not only what – people thought, and about the interaction between the human mind and the surrounding world.


Pattern Recognition

Pattern Recognition

Author: Edgar Roman-Rangel

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-06-16

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 3030770044

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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 13th Mexican Conference on Pattern Recognition, MCPR 2021, which was planned to be held in Mexico City, Mexico, in June 2021. The conference was instead held virtually. The 35 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 75 submissions. They are organized in the following topical sections: artificial intelligence techniques and recognition; pattern recognition techniques; neural networks and deep learning; computer vision; image processing and analysis; and medical applications of pattern recognition.