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Author: Paul Ellen
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 1987-02-28
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9789024734481
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute, La-Baume-les-Aix (Aix-en-Provence), France, June 27-July 7, 1985
Author: P. Ellen
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 9400935331
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute, La-Baume-les-Aix (Aix-en-Provence), France, June 27-July 7, 1985
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Reginald G. Golledge
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 460
ISBN-13: 9780801859939
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe metaphor of a "cognitive map" has attracted interest since the 1940s. Researchers from many fields have explored how humans process and use spatial information, why they make errors or not. This text brings together contributors from diverse fields to explore the
Author: Stephen Monsell
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 810
ISBN-13: 9780262133678
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe thirty-two contributions discuss evidence from psychological experiments with healthy and brain-damaged subjects, functional imaging, electrophysiology, and computational modeling.
Author: Robert A. McDonald
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Published: 1993
Total Pages: 332
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: H. Bloch
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 538
ISBN-13: 9400920717
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is the outcome of a Nato Workshop, held in France in July 1989. The workshop was organized to examine current ideas about sensory-motor organizations during human infancy and their development through early childhood. The study of sensory-motor development is experiencing a profound shift in scope, focus, methodology and theoretical foundations. Many of these changes are quite new and not yet well covered in the literature. We thought it would be useful for some of the leading researchers in this field to convene together and to compare notes, and collectively to establish future directions for the field. The reasons for a new conceptualization of sensory-motor development are no doubt numerous, but three are especially significant: 1. One concerns a shift from studying either sensory or motor processing to investigation of the relations between the two. 2. The second is connected to the new emphasis on action, and its implications for goal-directed and intentional behaviour extending over time. 3. Lastly, new theories and methodologies provide access to new tools for studying and conceptualizing the developmental process. 1.-One of the most enduring legacies of the behaviorist perspective has been a focus on the stimulus and the response to the exclusion of the relation between them (Pick, 1989). Historically, this bias translated into a research agenda in which the investigator was concerned with either perceptual or motor competence, but rarely the relation between them.
Author: Nigel Foreman
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 221
ISBN-13: 0863777996
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPart of a two-volume handbook reviewing the major paradigms used in each of the contributors' research areas of spatial cognition.
Author: Nigel Foreman
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2013-01-11
Total Pages: 221
ISBN-13: 1135816395
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSpatial cognition is a broad field of enquiry, emerging from a wide range of disciplines and incorporating a wide variety of paradigms that have been employed with human and animal subjects. This volume is part of a two- volume handbook reviewing the major paradigms used in each of the contributors' research areas.; This volume considers the issues of neurophysiological aspects of spatial cognition, the assessment of cognitive spatial deficits arising from neural damage in humans and animals, and the observation of spatial behaviours in animals in their natural habitats.; This handbook should be of interest to new and old students alike. The student new to spatial research can be brought up-to- speed with a particular range of techniques, made aware of the background and pitfalls of particular approaches, and directed toward useful sources. For seasoned researchers, the handbook provides a rapid scan of the available tools that they might wish to consider as alternatives when wishing to answer a particular "spatial" research problem.
Author: Gennaro Auletta
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2011-07-14
Total Pages: 891
ISBN-13: 0191621811
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProviding a new conceptual scaffold for further research in biology and cognition, this book introduces the new field of Cognitive Biology: a systems biology approach showing that further progress in this field will depend on a deep recognition of developmental processes, as well as on the consideration of the developed organism as an agent able to modify and control its surrounding environment. The role of cognition, the means through which the organism is able to cope with its environment, cannot be underestimated. In particular, it is shown that this activity is grounded on a theory of information based on Bayesian probabilities. The organism is considered as a cybernetic system able to integrate a processor as a source of variety (the genetic system), a regulator of its own homeostasis (the metabolic system), and a selecting system separating the self from the non-self (the membrane in unicellular organisms). Any organism is a complex system that can survive only if it is able to maintain its internal order against the spontaneous tendency towards disruption. Therefore, it is forced to monitor and control its environment and so to establish feedback circuits resulting in co-adaptation. Cognitive and biological processes are shown to be inseparable.
