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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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Our relationship with ads: it's complicated A must-read for anyone intrigued by the role and influence of the ad world, Seducing the Subconscious explores the complexities of our relationship to advertising. Robert Heath uses approaches from experimental psychology and...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2012-03-21
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Thinking and reasoning, long the academic province of philosophy, have over the past century emerged as core topics of empirical investigation and theoretical analysis in the modern fields of cognitive psychology, cognitive science, and cognitive neuroscience. Formerly...
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Oxford University Press
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2012-03-21
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In the past decade, the field of comparative cognition has grown and thrived. No less rigorous than purely behavioristic investigations, examinations of animal intelligence are useful for scientists and psychologists alike in their quest to understand the nature and...
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Oxford University Press
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2012-03-20
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Why do some children take up music, while others dont?Why do some excel, whilst others give up?Why do some children favour classical music, whilst others prefer rock?
These are questions that have puzzled music educators, psychologists, and musicologists for many...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-03-15
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Why do some children take up music, while others dont?Why do some excel, whilst others give up?Why do some children favour classical music, whilst others prefer rock?
These are questions that have puzzled music educators, psychologists, and musicologists for many...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-03-15
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The emotions a character feels--Hamlet's vengefulness when he realizes his uncle has killed his father, Anna Karenina's despair when she feels she can longer sustain her life, Marcel's joy when he tastes a piece of madeleine cake--are vital aspects of the experience of...
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Oxford University Press
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2012-03-01
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The ability to remember unique, personal events is at the core of what we consider to be "memory." How does the vivid experience of reinstatement of our past emerge? What is the contribution of this experience to our life histories? These questions have intrigued...
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Oxford University Press
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2012-03-01
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