"Good reasoning can lead to success; bad reasoning can lead to catastrophe. Yet it's not obvious how we reason, and why we make mistakes - so much of our mental life goes on outside our awareness. In recent years huge strides have been made into developing a scientific understan…
Attention and Memory brings together and assesses past and present research on information processing, to formulate a model of this entire system.
For decades, the fundamental processes underlying memory and attention have been understood within an "information processing" framework in which information passes from one processing stage to another, leading eventually to a response. More recently, however, the attempt to bui…
"The ultimate goal of the cognitive sciences is to understand how the brain works - how it turns "matter into imagination." In Imagination and the Meaningful Brain, psychoanalyst Arnold Modell claims that subjective human experience must be included in any scientific explanation…
The ultimate goal of the cognitive sciences is to understand how the brain works--how it turns "matter into imagination." In Imagination and the Meaningful Brain, psychoanalyst Arnold Modell claims that subjective human experience must be included in any scientific explanation o…
From one of the most original and influential neuroscientists at work today, here is an exploration of consciousness unlike any other - as told by Galileo, who opened the way for the objectivity of science and is now intent on making subjective experience a part of science as we…
Computational modelling plays a central role in cognitive science. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to computational models of human cognition. It covers major approaches and architectures, both neural network and symbolic; major theoretical issues; and specific c…
Proposition d'une visite du cerveau, avec ses multiples fonctions, les lieux où la parole est souveraine, l'hypothalamus et ses centres du plaisir, les lieux de mémoire et les passages secrets.
Draws on the author's experience in clinical practice to identify a basic, biological difference in male and female psychology, and presents evidence on gender-based brain types.
