Tag: Cognition

Free Download Design Computing and Cognition’20 by John S. Gero
English | EPUB | 2022 | 679 Pages | ISBN : 3030906248 | 97.1 MB
The papers in this volume are from the Ninth International Conference on Design Computing and Cognition (DCC’20) held virtually at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA. They represent the state-of-the-art of research and development in design computing and design cognition including the increasingly active area of design cognitive neuroscience. They are of particular interest to design researchers, developers and users of advanced computation in designing as well as to design educators.

Free Download Gesualdo M. Zucco, Rachel S. Herz, Benoist Schaal, "Olfactory Cognition: From Perception and Memory to Environmental Odours and Neuroscience"
English | 2012 | pages: 338 | ISBN: 9027213518 | PDF | 9,2 mb
This book was conceived as a tribute to one of the founders of the psychological study of the sense of smell, Professor Trygg Engen. The book is divided into four sections. The first reunites the fields of psychophysics and the perception of environmental odours and discusses the impact of odours on beliefs and expectations. The second addresses cognitive processes in olfaction, how odours are interpreted, lexicalized, associated with contexts and remembered. The third focuses on the cerebral bases of olfactory awareness and the neuropsychological investigation of olfaction with special emphasis on olfactory dysfunctions, and the last concerns affective and developmental processes in olfaction. The aim in producing this book is that it will help promote further research in olfactory cognition and attract new inquisitive scientists to the field. The volume will be a useful resource for academics, students, and professionals who study olfaction, as well as to scientists who work in the domains of perception, cognitive neuroscience and environmental psychology more broadly.

Free Download Characterizing Consciousness: From Cognition to the Clinic? by Stanislas Dehaene, Yves Christen
English | PDF | 2011 | 214 Pages | ISBN : 3642180140 | 3.4 MB
Fifteen of the foremost scientists in this field presented testable theoretical models of consciousness and discussed how our understanding of the role that consciousness plays in our cognitive processes is being refined with some surprising results.

Free Download James G. Cantrill, "Cognition, Communication, and Romantic Relationships"
English | 2000 | pages: 224 | ISBN: 0805835776 | PDF | 5,0 mb
Cognition, Communication, and Romantic Relationships focuses on the role of memory, communication, and social cognition in the development of romantic relationships. The authors review developmental models of communication and examine criticisms of these models. They also explore the stages through which relationships escalate and deteriorate, and consider the processes for such activities as meeting new people, dating, sexual intercourse, and terminating relationships. Differences between men and women are discussed throughout the text, in light of current research supporting systematic gender differences in how people think about romance and relationships.

Stephen von Tetzchner, "Typical and Atypical Child Development 4 Cognition, Intelligence and Learning: Cognition, Intelligence and Learning "
English | ISBN: 1032267755 | 2022 | 346 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This concise guide offers an accessible introduction to cognitive development in childhood and adolescence. It integrates insights from typical and atypical development to reveal fundamental aspects of human growth and development, and common developmental disorders.

Heidi Kloos, Bradley Morris, Joseph Amaral, "Current Topics in Children’s Learning and Cognition"
English | 2012 | pages: 160 | ISBN: 9535108557 | PDF | 5,5 mb
As a whole, the essays in this book address theoretical and empirical issues related to children’s learning and cognition. The first essay, titled Learning in Cognitive Niches, treats the process of sense making on a theoretical level, discussing the complexity of factors that give rise to children’s learning. It is followed by an essay, titled Using the Dynamics of a Person-Context System to Describe Children’s Understanding of Air Pressure, that applies ideas from complexity science and dynamics-systems theory to children’s learning about science. The next four essays summarize and synthesize already published findings, in an effort to go beyond individual viewpoints and present a more nuanced picture of children’s sense making. In particular, two of these summaries, Preschoolers Learning Science: Myth or Reality? and The Emergence of Scientific Reasoning, focus on children’s ability to make sense of their physical environment. The essay Cognition and the Child Witness: Understanding the Impact of Cognitive Development in Forensic Contexts seeks to shed light on children’s sense making relevant to forensic issues. And the essay Beyond the Black-and-White of Autism: How Cognitive Performance Varies with Context ventures in the area of autism, a disorder that demonstrates atypical processes of combining pieces of information. The final two essays provide original data to add to the discussion of what factors affect cognitive functioning. In particular, the essay Cognitive Fitness in Young Adult Video Game Players seeks to re-assess the often-assumed relation between video gaming and various aspects of thinking, memory, intelligence, and visual-spatial abilities. And the essay Impact of Moving Away from Home on Undergraduate Metacognitive Development explicitly connects life circumstances to the ability to monitor and control one’s thinking. Together, the collection of essays are a further step towards understanding the process of sense making as children and young adults interact with their environment.

Ismael Eduardo Apud Peláez, "Ayahuasca: Between Cognition and Culture: Perspectives from an interdisciplinary and reflexive ethnography"
English | 2020 | pages: 294 | ISBN: 8484248348 | PDF | 7,0 mb
This book summarizes Ismael Apud’s ethnographic research in the field of ayahuasca, conducted in Latin America and Catalonia over a period of 10 years. To analyze the variety of ayahuasca spiritual practices and beliefs, the author combines different approaches, including medical anthropology, cognitive science of religion, history of science, and religious studies. Ismael Apud is a psychologist and anthropologist from Uruguay, with a PhD in Anthropology at Universitat Rovira i Virgili.

Language, Expressivity and Cognition
by Deckert, Mikolaj;Pezik, Piotr;Zago, Raffaele;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1350332860 | 257 pages | True PDF EPUB | 18.98 MB

Bilingual Cognition and Language: The state of the science across its subfields By David Miller (editor), Fatih Bayram (editor), Jason Rothman (editor), Ludovica Serratrice (editor)
2018 | 409 Pages | ISBN: 9027200157 | PDF | 7 MB
This collection brings together leading names in the field of bilingualism research to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Studies in Bilingualism series. Over the last 25 years the study of bilingualism has received a tremendous amount of attention from linguists, psychologists, cognitive scientists, and neuroscientists. The breadth of coverage in this volume is a testament to the many different aspects of bilingualism that continue to generate phenomenal interest in the scholarly community. The bilingual experience is captured through a multifaceted prism that includes aspects of language and literacy development in child bilinguals with and without developmental language disorders, language processing and mental representations in adult bilinguals across the lifespan, and the cognitive and neurological basis of bilingualism. Different theoretical approaches – from generative UG-based models to constructivist usage-based models – are brought to bear on the nature of bilingual linguistic knowledge. The end result is a compendium of the state-of-the-art of a field that is in constant evolution and that is on an upward trajectory of discovery.

The Animal Mind: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Animal Cognition By Kristin Andrews
2020 | 320 Pages | ISBN: 1138559563 | PDF | 7 MB
The philosophy of animal minds addresses profound questions about the nature of mind and the relationships between humans and other animals.In this fully revised and updated introductory text, Kristin Andrews introduces and assesses the essential topics, problems, and debates as they cut across animal cognition and philosophy of mind, citing historical and cutting-edge empirical data and case studies throughout.The second edition includes a new chapter on animal culture. There are also new sections on the evolution of consciousness and tool use in animals, as well as substantially revised sections on mental representation, belief, communication, theory of mind, animal ethics, and moral psychology.Further features such as chapter summaries, annotated further reading, and a glossary make The Animal Mind an indispensable introduction to those teaching philosophy of mind, philosophy of animal minds or animal cognition. It will also be an excellent resource for those in fields such as ethology, biology, and psychology.