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Fondamenti Di Psicologia Dello Sviluppo

Fondamenti Di Psicologia Dello Sviluppo

Lo scopo della psicologia dello sviluppo è descrivere e spiegare i cambiamenti nel comportamento e nelle attività psicologiche dal periodo prenatale fino alla vecchiaia. Il volume affronta in modo approfondito i principali temi della psicologia dello sviluppo dal periodo prenatale fino alla vecchiaia esaminandone sia gli aspetti biologici che quelli culturali. Nel testo sono presentate le più importanti teorie dello sviluppo in una prospettiva storica e in particolare quelle di Piaget Vygotskij e Bowlby che permettono di comprendere gli orientamenti della ricerca contemporanea e forniscono una sintesi moderna rispetto alle radicali posizioni innatiste e ambientaliste. Il testo presenta inoltre recenti ipotesi sostenute da evidenze sperimentali che hanno portato a parziali revisioni di queste teorie. Il volume fornisce in tal modo una visione complessiva e aggiornata delle questioni teoriche e metodologiche più rilevanti della psicologia dello sviluppo ed è consigliato per studenti universitari insegnanti operatori del settore genitori e per tutti coloro che sono interessati a questa disciplina. l curatore di questa edizione ha inoltre apportato integrazioni e adattamenti specifici per il pubblico italiano. A tal fine sono state anche illustrate recenti ricerche italiane rilevanti per i temi trattati nel testo.

GBP 96.00
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Perspectives on Framing

Perspectives on Framing

Language comprises a major mark of humans compared with other primates and is the main vehicle for social interaction. A major characteristic of any natural language is that the same communication idea or intention can be articulated in different ways—in other words the same message can be "framed" differently. The same medical treatment can be portrayed in terms chance of chance of success or chance of failure; energy reduction can be expressed in terms of savings per day or savings per year; and a task can be described as 80% completed or 20% uncompleted. In this book contributors from a variety of disciplines—psychology linguistics marketing political science and medical decision making—come together to better understand the mechanisms underlying framing effects and assess their impact on the communication process.

GBP 34.39
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Perspectives on Anger and EmotionAdvances in Social Cognition Volume Vi

Perspectives on Anger and EmotionAdvances in Social Cognition Volume Vi

In this volume Berkowitz develops the argument that experiential and behavioral components of an emotional state are affected by many processes: some are highly cognitive in nature; others are automatic and involuntary. Cognitive and associative mechanisms theoretically come into play at different times in the emotion-cognition sequence. The model he proposes therefore integrates theoretical positions that previously have been artificially segregated in much of the emotion-cognition literature. The breadth of the implications of Berkowitz's theory is also reflected in the diversity of this book's companion chapters. Written by researchers whose work focuses on both social cognition and emotion these articles provide important insights and possible extensions of the "cognitive-neoassociationistic" conceptualization developed in the target article. Although each chapter is a valuable contribution in its own right this volume taken as a whole is a timely and important contribution both to social cognition and to research and theory on emotion per se.

GBP 27.99
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Memory for Odors

Memory for Odors

The power of odors to unlock human memory is celebrated in literature and anecdote but poorly documented by science. Odors -- perhaps more than other stimuli -- are widely believed to evoke vivid and complex past experiences easily. Yet in contrast to the frequency with which odors are thought to evoke memories of the past scientific evidence is thus far scant. For years voluminous data have been collected on odor sensitivity whereas relatively few studies exist on memory for odors per se. Moreover the memory data that do exist are thus far only poorly integrated with the most modern attitudes on human memory. The major goal of this volume is to point the way toward a better state of affairs one in which the study of odor memory is legitimatized as a proper specialization and is informed by the most promising ideas in the mainstream study of memory. This volume explores three tendencies in modern memory theory that have not yet sufficiently penetrated the odor-memory work: memory coding memory and knowledge and implicit and explicit memory.

GBP 15.99
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Mental Logic

Mental Logic

Over the past decade the question of whether there is a mental logic has become subject to considerable debate. There have been attacks by critics who believe that all reasoning uses mental models and return attacks on mental-models theory. This controversy has invaded various journals and has created issues between mental logic and the biases-and-heuristics approach to reasoning and the content-dependent theorists. However despite its pertinence to current issues in cognition few cognitive scientists really know what the mental-logic theory is and misapprehensions are prevalent. This volume is a comprehensive presentation of the theory of mental logic and its implications for cognition and development including the acquisition of language. The theory offered here has three parts. Part I is the mental logic per se that contains a set of inference schemas. Part II is a reasoning program that applies the schemas in lines of reasoning including a direct-reasoning routine and more sophisticated indirect-reasoning strategies. Part III of the theory is pragmatic proposing that the basic meaning of each logic particle is in the inferences that are sanctioned by its inference schemas.

GBP 37.59
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From Inkmarks to IdeasCurrent Issues in Lexical Processing

From Inkmarks to IdeasCurrent Issues in Lexical Processing

Reading is one of the most sophisticated demonstrations of human pattern recognition and symbolic processing skill. Skilled readers effortlessly comprehend written text at rates of at least 300 words per minute despite the complex interactions between perceptual cognitive and memory processes required for effective comprehension. Understanding how we achieve this remarkable feat has been a focus of investigation since the birth of experimental psychology. Over the last two decades visual word recognition has been at the forefront of developments in cognitive science. This book brings together many of the most influential contributors to these developments to reflect on current issues in the cognitive science of lexical processing and the methods required for further progress. The first section focuses on computational models. Written words provide a fertile context for large-scale modeling and the domain of lexical retrieval has become a test-bed for evaluating competing theoretical frameworks. The later sections draw upon cognitive psychology linguistics philosophy computer science and neuroscience to elaborate critical theoretical issues and to develop novel research tools. From Inkmarks to Ideas provides advanced students and researchers with a comprehensive overview of the critical theoretical and empirical controversies in current research on the cognitive science of lexical processing and reading.

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The Neurolinguistics of BilingualismAn Introduction

The Neurolinguistics of BilingualismAn Introduction

This book introduces the reader to both neurolinguistics per se and the neuropsychological aspects of bilingualism. Neurolinguistics may roughly be defined as a subset of neuropsychology namely the study of the representation and processing of language in the brain. To this effect the first chapters of the book focus on the basic neuropsychology of language processing and acquisition. The second half of the book addresses the issues of cerebral representation and processing of language in bi-or multilingual subjects. All aspects are systematically dealt with namely the definition of bilingualism; an analysis of all the issues related to bilingual aphasia i.e. patterns of recovery of the patients' carious languages in diverse population; an investigation of the methodologies used in the study of the neuropsychological aspects of the various linguistic functions such as comprehension production and translation; and lastly the issues of cerebral lateralization and neuroanatomical localization of the numerous cortical and subcortical structures subserving the various language system components in multilingual subjects. It is an excellent introduction to both the neuropsychology of language and the phenomena related to bilingualism. This book will be of particular interest to students of language therapy aphasiology applied psycholinguistics neurolinguistics and in general to students of medicine who wish to become more knowledgeable about the specific needs of patients in a multilingual society.

GBP 37.59
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Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation: New Prospects in Cognitive Neurorehabilitation

Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation: New Prospects in Cognitive Neurorehabilitation

Cognitive deficits are a common consequence of neurological disease and there is evidence that specific cognitive training may be effective in rehabilitation. Behavioural dysfunction following neurological disease constitutes one of the major causes of disability worldwide exerts a major impact on the daily life of affected individuals and their families also with a financial burden both for patients and the society in general. Therefore the adequate treatment of cognitive dysfunction is a much relevant issue with social and economical implications over and above the neuropsychological problem per se. Several investigations emphasise the fact that interacting with neural activity by means of cortical stimulation can affect cognitive performance. A number of studies have reported enhanced performance in specific cognitive tasks in patients with several types of neurological disease after receiving Non Invasive Brain Stimulation (NIBS) to specific cortical areas namely: Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation and transcranial Electrical Stimulation. In general the evidence highlights the possibility of inducing changes in cortical excitability which in turn may lead to a plastic reorganization of dysfunctional networks responsible for the impaired cognitive functions. Despite these advances a number of important questions remain open regarding the use of stimulation techniques in cognitive rehabilitation. This special issue puts together international leading experts in the field to review and discuss recent advances as to whether NIBS techniques alone or combined with behavioural cognitive rehabilitation can lead to performance enhancements and why. The issue is timely and promises to have a huge impact across many domains of clinical and basic neuroscience.

GBP 31.99
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Lightness Brightness and Transparency

Lightness Brightness and Transparency

This volume deals with the visual perception of lightness brightness and transparency of surfaces both under minimal laboratory conditions and in complex images typical of everyday life. Each chapter analyzes the challenging problem of how a pattern of light intensities on the retina is transformed into the visual experience of varying shades of grey transparent surfaces and light and shadow. One important theme which unifies the group of contributions is the recognition that the perception of surface lightness is rooted fundamentally in the encoding of relative intensities of light within the retinal image not intensities per se. A second important unifying theme is an appreciation of the multiple dimensions of the visual experience of lightness brightness and transparency -- people do not perceive the lightness of surfaces by discarding information concerning the light illuminating those surfaces; rather they perceive a pattern of illumination projected onto a pattern of surface greys. The long-fascinating problems of surface lightness and color perception have become very active topics recently as a resurging interest within the visual perception community has coincided with an increasing appreciation of the centrality of these problems by the emerging machine vision community. The best of recent psychophysical work on lightness perception as presented in this volume will be of great interest to both of these communities. This book also marks a synthesis of old and new. A traditional strongly Gestalt approach that had fallen into neglect is updated in the light of new quantitative systematic methods and important later discoveries such as the disappearance of stabilized retinal images. The book draws on such diverse approaches as Gestalt and ecological psychology threshold psychophysics and computational vision advancing our understanding of the interrelations among surface color illumination perceived depth shading and transparency.

GBP 37.59
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