Dark Cognition

Author : David Vernon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429824838

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Dark Cognition by David Vernon Pdf

*Winner of the Parapsychological Association Book Award 2021* Outlining the scientific evidence behind psi research, Dark Cognition expertly reveals that such anomalous phenomena clearly exist, highlighting that the prevailing view of consciousness, purely as a phenomenon of the brain, fails to account for the empirical findings. David Vernon provides essential coverage of information and evidence for a variety of anomalous psi phenomena, calling for a paradigm shift in how we view consciousness: from seeing it as something solely reliant on the brain to something that is enigmatic, fundamental and all pervasive. The book examines the nature of psi research showing that, despite claims to the contrary, it is clearly a scientific endeavour. It explores evidence from telepathy and scopaesthesia, clairvoyance and remote viewing, precognition, psychokinesis, fields of consciousness, energy healing, out of body experiences, near-death experiences and post death phenomena, showing that not only do these phenomena exist, but that they have significant implications for our understanding of consciousness. Featuring discussion on scientific research methods, reflections on the fields of dark cognition and end-of-chapter questions that encourage critical thinking, this book is an essential text for those interested in parapsychology, consciousness and cognitive psychology.

Author : Aurora García-Gallego,Manuel I. Ibáñez,Nikolaos Georgantzis
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-22
Category : Decision making
ISBN : 9782889452361

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Personality and Cognition in Economic Decision Making by Aurora García-Gallego,Manuel I. Ibáñez,Nikolaos Georgantzis Pdf

Psychologists studying cognitive processes and personality have increasingly benefited from the wealth of theory, methodology, and decision making paradigms used in economics and game theory. Similarly, for the economists, personality traits and basic cognitive processes offer a set of coherent explanatory constructs in economic behavior. Given the debate on preference invariance and behavioral consistency across contexts and domains, the papers in this topic shed light on the existence and effect of stable sets of idiosyncratic features on economic decision-making. While the effects of personality and cognition on economic decisions remain under-explored, the papers contributed in this topic offer more than a stimulus for further research. The general message could be that personality and cognitive processes offer the stable idiosyncratic ground on which individual decisions are made.

Author : Raymond P. Kesner,David S. Olton
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-25
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317785651

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Neurobiology of Comparative Cognition by Raymond P. Kesner,David S. Olton Pdf

This book represents a unique and elaborate exposition of the neural organization of language, memory, and spatial perception in a wide variety of species including humans, bees, fish, rodents, and monkeys. The editors have united the comparative approach with its emphasis on evolutionary determinants of behavior, the neurobiological approach with its emphasis on the neural determinants of behavior, and the cognitive approach with its emphasis on understanding higher-order mental functions. The combination of these three approaches provides an unusual look at the neurobiology of comparative cognition, and should stimulate increased investigations in this field and related disciplines.

Author : John Davies
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781845405601

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God versus Particle Physics by John Davies Pdf

The book presents the conclusions of a psychologist seeking to make sense of contemporary particle physics as described in a number of popular science texts and media articles, written by physicists, seeking to explain the workings of the sub-atomic world. The accounts, it is argued, are a) mutually exclusive and contradictory, and b) metaphysical or magical in essence. Themes of the book include: a discussion of the way we allow physicists to invent things that have no perceivable qualities, on the grounds that they 'must' be there because otherwise their preconceptions are wrong or their sums don't work; that, from a psychological perspective, contemporary theory in particle physics has the same properties as any other act of faith, and the same limitations as belief in God; and that physics has now reached a point at which increasingly physicists research their own psychological constructions rather than anything which is unambiguously 'there' or real. It encourages people to ask basic questions of the type we often use to question the existence of God; such as 'Where is he/it?', 'Show me?', 'Do it then', 'When did it happen?', 'How do you know it exists?', and so on, and suggests that people take a leaf out of Dawkins' text, The God Delusion, but apply it to high-end physics as much as to religious dogma: turning water into wine is a mere conjuring trick compared to producing an entire universe out of nothing.

Author : Robert E. MacLaury
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0292751931

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Color and Cognition in Mesoamerica by Robert E. MacLaury Pdf

More than 100 indigenous languages are spoken in Mexico and Central America. Each language partitions the color spectrum according to a pattern that is unique in some way. But every local system of color categories also shares characteristics with the systems of other Mesoamerican languages and of languages elsewhere in the world. This book presents the results of the Mesoamerican Color Survey, which Robert E. MacLaury conducted in 1978-1981. Drawn from interviews with 900 speakers of some 116 Mesoamerican languages, the book provides a sweeping overview of the organization and semantics of color categorization in modern Mesoamerica. Extensive analysis and MacLaury's use of vantage theory reveal complex and often surprising interrelationships among the ways languages categorize colors. His findings offer valuable cross-cultural data for all students of Mesoamerica. They will also be of interest to all linguists and cognitive scientists working on theories of categorization more generally.

Author : Jiro Hamada
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-22
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780323952873

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Psychophysics and Experimental Phenomenology of Pattern Cognition by Jiro Hamada Pdf

Psychophysics and Experimental Phenomenology of Pattern Cognition examines the cognitive transformations that underly this cognitive system and the specialized subsystems for processing these transformations. Sections cover symmetry cognition, contour perception and geometric illusion. Weight sensation is also discussed, as are repetitive and dot patterns. By incorporating elements of both psychophysics and experimental phenomenology, pattern cognition is examined from both the physical and mental sensory perspective, thus providing a comprehensive view of this cognitive system. Examines the cognitive transformations underlying pattern cognition and the specialized subsystems for processing transformations Provides an interdisciplinary psychophysics and experimental phenomenology perspective Features sections that cover symmetry cognition, contour perception and geometric illusion Describes weight sensation and repetitive and dot patterns

Author : Usha Goswami
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-04
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317774648

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Cognition In Children by Usha Goswami Pdf

This textbook aims to provide a selective, but representative, review of work in cognitive development, grouped around themes that are familiar from textbooks of adult cognition. The book focuses on the question of what develops, rather than on why it develops. The findings of a given experimental study what develops are generally fixed, but the interpretation of what particular findings mean why is fluid. Some of the experiments discussed in this book have alternative explanations, and every student interested in children's cognition is invited to develop their own ideas about what different studies mean.

Author : Mats Andrén,Marlene Johansson Falck,Jordan Zlatev
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2008-12-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443803151

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Studies in Language and Cognition by Mats Andrén,Marlene Johansson Falck,Jordan Zlatev Pdf

Using a plethora of concepts, theories and methods, the theoretical and empirical studies described in this volume are united in their approach of treating language not in isolation (e.g. as a “module”), but as both based on structures and processes of cognition, and at the same time as affecting the human mind. The book is organized in 7 parts, corresponding to some of the major fields in language research today: (a) linguistic meta-theory and general issues, (b) lexical meaning, (c) metaphor, (d) grammar, (e) pragmatics, (f) gesture and bodily communication, and (g) historical linguistics. At the same time, the non-modular approach to language adopted by the authors is reflected by the fact that there are no strict boundaries between the parts. Thus, the book is a valuable contribution to the growing interdisciplinary field of Language and Cognition.

Author : Janette B. Benson,Marshall M. Haith
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-22
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0123785766

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Language, Memory, and Cognition in Infancy and Early Childhood by Janette B. Benson,Marshall M. Haith Pdf

Language, cognition, and memory are traditionally studied together prior to a researcher specializing in any one area. They are studied together initially because much of the development of one can affect the development of the others. Most books available now either tend to be extremely broad in the areas of all infant development including physical and social development, or specialize in cognitive development, language acquisition, or memory. Rarely do you find all three together, despite the fact that they all relate to each other. This volume consists of focused articles from the authoritative Encyclopedia of Infant and Early Childood Development, and specifically targets the ages 0-3. Providing summary overviews of basic and cutting edge research, coverage includes attention, assessment, bilingualism, categorization skills, critical periods, learning disabilities, reasoning, speech development, etc. This collection of articles provides an essential, affordable reference for researchers, graduate students, and clinicians interested in cognitive development, language development, and memory, as well as those developmental psychologists interested in all aspects of development. Focused content on age 0-3- saves time searching for and wading through lit on full age range for developmentally relevant info Concise, understandable, and authoritative—easier to comprehend for immediate applicability in research

Author : Radu J. Bogdan
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-02
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317780496

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Grounds for Cognition by Radu J. Bogdan Pdf

Q: Why do organisms need cognition? A: To get information about their environments. Q: Why such information? A: Because organisms need to guide their behaviors to goals. Q: Why guidance? A: Because it leads to goal satisfaction. Q: Why goals? Cognition is a naturally selected response by genetic programs to the evolutionary pressure of guiding behaviors to goals. Organisms are material systems that maintain and replicate themselves by engaging their world in goal-directed ways. This is how guidance of behavior to goal grounds and explains cognition and the main forms in which it manages information. Guidance to goal also makes a difference to the understanding of human cognition. Simpler forms of cognition evolve to handle fixed informational transactions with the world, whereas human cognition evolves the abilities to script flexible goal situations that fit specific contexts of behavior. This teleoevolutionary approach has important implications for cognitive science, two of which are programmatic. One is that information that guides to goal is not exclusively cognitive; guidance is also affected by ecological facts and regularities as well as by design assumptions about them. The other implication is that the functional analyses dominant in cognitive science and philosophy of mind are incomplete and weak. They are incomplete in that they focus only on the explicitly encoded cognitive information and its behavioral consequences, thus ignoring the larger guidance arrangements; and weak because causal and functional relations implement but underdetermine goal-directed and goal-guided procesess. A work dealing expressly with the foundations of cognitive science, this book addresses basic but seldom-asked questions about the evolutionary rationale of cognition and the way this rationale has shaped the major types of cognition. It also provides a teleological answer to these basic questions in terms of goal directedness and particularly guidance of behavior to goal. In so doing, the work defends the scientific respectability and the explanatory necessity of teleology by showing that goal directedness characterizes the work of genetic programs.

Author : Selene Arfini
Publisher : Springer
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030143626

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Ignorant Cognition by Selene Arfini Pdf

This book offers a comprehensive philosophical investigation of ignorance. Using a set of cognitive tools and models, it discusses features that can describe a state of ignorance if linked to a particular type of cognition affecting the agent’s social behavior, belief system, and inferential capacity. The author defines ignorance as a cognitive condition that can be either passively (and unconsciously) borne by an agent or actively nurtured by him or her, and a condition that entails epistemic limitations (which can be any lack of knowledge, belief, information or data) that affect the agent’s behavior, belief system, and inferential capacity. The author subsequently describes the ephemeral nature of ignorance, its tenacity in the development of human inferential and cognitive performance, and the possibility of sharing ignorance among human agents within the social dimension. By combining previous frameworks such as the naturalization of logic, the eco-cognitive perspective in philosophy and concepts from Peircean epistemology, and adding original ideas derived from the author’s own research and reflections, the book develops a new cognitive framework to help understand the nature of ignorance and its influence on the human condition.

Author : Mi-Kyoung Lee
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0199262225

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Epistemology After Protagoras by Mi-Kyoung Lee Pdf

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Author : Dylan D. Schmorrow,Cali M. Fidopiastis
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-10
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783030504397

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Augmented Cognition. Human Cognition and Behavior by Dylan D. Schmorrow,Cali M. Fidopiastis Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of 14th International Conference on Augmented Cognition, AC 2020, held as part of the 22nd International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2020, in July 2020. The conference was planned to be held in Copenhagen, Denmark, but had to change to a virtual conference mode due to the COVID-19 pandemic. From a total of 6326 submissions, a total of 1439 papers and 238 posters has been accepted for publication in the HCII 2020 proceedings. The 21 papers presented in this volume were organized in topical sections as follows: cognitive modeling, perception, emotion and interaction; electroencephalography and BCI; and AI and augmented cognition.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : ScholarlyEditions
Page : 1458 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-09
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781464964497

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Issues in Brain and Cognition Research: 2011 Edition by Anonim Pdf

Issues in Brain and Cognition Research / 2011 Edition is a ScholarlyEditions™ eBook that delivers timely, authoritative, and comprehensive information about Brain and Cognition Research. The editors have built Issues in Brain and Cognition Research: 2011 Edition on the vast information databases of ScholarlyNews.™ You can expect the information about Brain and Cognition Research in this eBook to be deeper than what you can access anywhere else, as well as consistently reliable, authoritative, informed, and relevant. The content of Issues in Brain and Cognition Research: 2011 Edition has been produced by the world’s leading scientists, engineers, analysts, research institutions, and companies. All of the content is from peer-reviewed sources, and all of it is written, assembled, and edited by the editors at ScholarlyEditions™ and available exclusively from us. You now have a source you can cite with authority, confidence, and credibility. More information is available at http://www.ScholarlyEditions.com/.

Author : Katerina Berezina
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031588396

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Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2024 by Katerina Berezina Pdf