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The Origins of Music was first published in German in 1911. In this text Carl Stumpf set out a path-breaking hypothesis on the earliest musical sounds in human culture. Alongside his research in such diverse fields as classical philosophy, acoustics, and mathematics,...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-07-26
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Practicing Positive CBT: From Reducing Distress to Building Success reveals a new therapeutic approach that combines traditional CBT with Positive Psychology and Solution-Focused Brief Therapy. By shifting the focus of therapy from what is wrong with clients to what it...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2012-07-23
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The Psychology of Learning and Motivation series publishes empirical and theoretical contributions in cognitive and experimental psychology, ranging from classical and instrumental conditioning to complex learning and problem solving.
- Volume 57 of the highly regarded...
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Academic Press
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2012-07-11
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This work gives a thorough revision of history through a psychological approach to verbal interaction between listeners and speakers.This book offers a large amount of information on the psychology of language and on psycholinguistics, and focuses on a new direction for...
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Springer
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2012-07-09
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Cognition and Language: A Series in Psycholinguistics
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Epilepsy is one of the most common disorders of the brain, and these patients often suffer from memory problems. There are a number of reasons for this: seizures can directly affect the brain in ways that disturb memory; epilepsy often results from trouble in brain...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-06-28
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ANOTHER DAY IN THE MONKEY'S BRAIN charts a neuroscientist's journey to understand the central mysteries of consciousness. Dr. Siegel began his career in the neurophysiology of vision in the 1980s, just when the field was coming into focus with the advent of new...
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Oxford University Press
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2012-06-25
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We perceive and understand our environment using many sensory systems-vision, touch, hearing, taste, smell, and proprioception. These multiple sensory modalities not only give us complementary sources of information about the environment but also an understanding that...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-06-21
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'Seeing' happens effortlessly and yet is endlessly complex. One of the most fascinating aspects of visual perception is its stability and constancy. As we shift our gaze or move about the world, the light projected onto the retinas is constantly changing. Yet the...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-06-21
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Learn and apply the 14 core principles of cognitive behavior therapy In this invaluable guide, clinicians will find?identified and summarized by leading researchers and clinicians?fourteen core principles that subsume the more than 400 cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)...
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Wiley
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2012-06-13
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Given its importance in analysing and influencing the world around us, an understanding of colour is a vital tool in any design process. Colour design provides a comprehensive review of the issues surrounding the use of colour, from the fundamental principles of what...
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Woodhead Publishing
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2012-06-06
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The advent of modern neurobiological methods over the last three decades has provided overwhelming evidence that it is the interaction of genetic factors and the experience of the individual that guides and supports brain development. Brains do not develop normally in...
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Oxford University Press
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2012-05-24
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Most of us believe that we possess a self - an internal individual who resides inside our bodies, making decisions, authoring actions and possessing free will. The feeling that a single, unified, enduring self inhabits the body - the 'me' inside me - is compelling and...
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Constable
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2012-04-19
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This scholarly work is the most comprehensive existing resource on human physical appearance—how people's outer physical characteristics and their inner perceptions and attitudes about their own appearance (body image) affect their lives. The encyclopedia's 117...
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Academic Press
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2012-04-11
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Unlike any other species, humans can learn and use language. This book explains how the brain evolved to make language possible, through what Michael Arbib calls the Mirror System Hypothesis. Because of mirror neurons, monkeys, chimps, and humans can learn by imitation,...
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Oxford University Press
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2012-04-11
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"More information is always better, and full information is best. More computation is always better, and optimization is best." More-is-better ideals such as these have long shaped our vision of rationality. Yet humans and other animals typically rely on simple...
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Oxford University Press
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2012-04-10
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People experiencing disorders in regulation are highly sensitive to stimulation from the environment, emotionally reactive, and have difficulty maintaining an organized and calm life style. They are impulsive, easily frustrated, and as a result make decisions that lead...
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Academic Press
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2012-03-30
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This book focuses on creative development and empowerment in Marcel Proust’s A la recherche du temps perdu. It demonstrates Proust’s proof of the Romantic notion that art originates in the self of the artist. Approached as a Bildungsroman, the psychological aspects of...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2012-03-27
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Musical Creativities in Practice explores the social and the cultural contexts in which creativity in music occurs. It begins by considering what constitutes creativity - taking a cross cultural view of music, while investigating creative processes far beyond just the...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-03-22
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