Seeing and Visualizing; Its Not What You Think

Category       : E-Books

Author          : Zenon W. Pylyshyn

Publisher      : Unkown

Year              : 2007

Page              : 573

Language      : English

File Type       : Pdf

Size               : 3,018 MB

Review       :This book is about how we see and how we visualize. But it is equally about how we are easily misled by our everyday experience of these faculties. Galileo is said to have proclaimed (Galilei, 1610/1983; quoted in Slezak, 2002), “. . . if men had been born blind, philosophy would be more perfect, because it would lack many false assumptions that have been taken from the sense of sight.”

Neuropsychology of Communication

Category       : E-Books

Author          : Michela Balconi

Publisher      : Springer

Year              : 2008

Page              : 228

Language      : English

File Type       : Pdf

Size               : 1,757 MB

Review      : Communication has become, in recent years, an autonomous field of theoretical reflection and a proficient research perspective, independent of the study of language and instead focused on the ensemble of competencies needed to produce and comprehend language. This independence is evidenced by the growing interest in the communicative process, addressed by disciplines such as the social sciences, with specific regard to social cognition, and cognitive psychology, which examines the role of cognitive representation in communication regulation as well as the metacognitiv functions related to the self-other distinction in the regulation of conversational

Handbook of Functional Neuroimaging

Category       : E-Books

Author          : Cabeza, Kingstone

Publisher      : DK Publisher

Year              : 2007

Page              : 401

Language      : English

File Type       : Pdf

Size               : 2,311 MB

Review     :In the late spring of 1998, a conference was held in the wonderful and rustic town of Banff, Alberta, situated deep in the heartland of the Canadian Rockies. There, over the course of three days and two nights, cognitive neuroscientists gathered to discuss and argue about issues that concerned the functional neuroimaging of cognitive processes. A great deal of data was presented, and a plethora of views were advanced.

The Male Brain

Category       : E-Books

Author          : LOUANN BRIZENDINE, M.D.

Publisher      : Broadway Books

Year              : 2007

Page              : 441

Language      : English

File Type       : Pdf

Size               : 1,219 MB

Review          :Hormones can determine what the brain is interested in doing. Their purpose is to help guide social, sexual, mating, parenting, protective, and aggressive behaviors. They can affect being rough-and-tumble, competing in sports or attending sporting events, solving problems, interpreting facial expressions and others’ emotions, male-male bonding, dating and mating, ogling attractive females, forming sexual and pair-bond relationships, protecting family and turf, fantasizing, masturbating, and pursuing sex.