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Author : Bruce A. McConachie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Human information processing
ISBN : 1316468550
Bruce McConachie explores the biocultural basis of performance, from the cognitive processes that facilitate it, to what keeps us engaged.
Author : Bruce McConachie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781107091399
Bruce McConachie explores the biocultural basis of performance, from the cognitive processes that facilitate it, to what keeps us engaged.
Author : Alice Travis
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781581129816
In a bold, reasoned, and meticulously researched knowledge leap, Cognitive Evolution erases the demarcation between life and intelligent life, deciphers the concepts of intelligence and cognition, and moves our kind to the precipices of digitizing the anatomical gnome of reason. Cognitive Evolution suggests that the high order mental behaviors of Homo sapiens are rooted in the same biology as the moth's attraction to light, worker bees' foreknowledge of their assignments, ants' knowledge of the mechanics to execute the architectural design of an ant hill, or a female cat's instinct to open the umbilical sack after giving birth. Author Alice Travis ponders, "If we begin with what we accept to be intelligent life, at what point does life become non-intelligent?" It was the recognition that there is no such point that gave birth to Cognitive Evolution, and its groundbreaking interpretation of intelligence. Electronic ebook edition available. Click on Diesel ebooks logo to the left.
Author : Sara J. Shettleworth
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-10
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0199717818
How do animals perceive the world, learn, remember, search for food or mates, communicate, and find their way around? Do any nonhuman animals count, imitate one another, use a language, or have a culture? What are the uses of cognition in nature and how might it have evolved? What is the current status of Darwin's claim that other species share the same "mental powers" as humans, but to different degrees? In this completely revised second edition of Cognition, Evolution, and Behavior, Sara Shettleworth addresses these questions, among others, by integrating findings from psychology, behavioral ecology, and ethology in a unique and wide-ranging synthesis of theory and research on animal cognition, in the broadest sense--from species-specific adaptations of vision in fish and associative learning in rats to discussions of theory of mind in chimpanzees, dogs, and ravens. She reviews the latest research on topics such as episodic memory, metacognition, and cooperation and other-regarding behavior in animals, as well as recent theories about what makes human cognition unique. In every part of this new edition, Shettleworth incorporates findings and theoretical approaches that have emerged since the first edition was published in 1998. The chapters are now organized into three sections: Fundamental Mechanisms (perception, learning, categorization, memory), Physical Cognition (space, time, number, physical causation), and Social Cognition (social knowledge, social learning, communication). Shettleworth has also added new chapters on evolution and the brain and on numerical cognition, and a new chapter on physical causation that integrates theories of instrumental behavior with discussions of foraging, planning, and tool using.
Author : Vivian Appler,Meredith Conti
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350234086
Identity, Culture, and the Science Performance, Volume 1: From the Lab to the Streets is the first of two volumes dedicated to the diverse sociocultural work of science-oriented performance. A dynamic volume of scholarly essays, interviews with scientists and artists, and creative entries, it examines explicitly public-facing science performances that operate within and for specialist and non-specialist populations. The book's chapters trace the theatrical and ethical contours of live science events, re-enact historical stagings of scientific expertise, and demonstrate the pedagogical and activist potentials in performing science in community settings. Alongside the scholarly chapters, From the Lab to the Streets features creative work by contemporary science-integrative artists and interviews with popular science communicators Sahana Srinivasan (host of Netflix's Brainchild) and Raven Baxter (“Raven the Science Maven”) and artists from performance ensembles The Olimpias and Superhero Clubhouse. In exploring the science performance as a vital but flawed method of public engagement, it offers a critique of the racist, ableist, sexist, and heteronormative ideologies prevalent across the history of science, as well as highlighting science performances that challenge and redress these ideologies. Along with its complementary volume From the Curious to the Quantum, this book documents the varied ways in which identity categories and cultural constructs are formed and reformed through science performances.
Author : Lawrence A. Hirschfeld,Susan A. Gelman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1994-04-29
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0521429935
A collection of essays introducing the reader to `domain-specificity'.
Author : Sara J. Shettleworth
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009-12-30
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780199886388
How do animals perceive the world, learn, remember, search for food or mates, communicate, and find their way around? Do any nonhuman animals count, imitate one another, use a language, or have a culture? What are the uses of cognition in nature and how might it have evolved? What is the current status of Darwin's claim that other species share the same "mental powers" as humans, but to different degrees? In this completely revised second edition of Cognition, Evolution, and Behavior, Sara Shettleworth addresses these questions, among others, by integrating findings from psychology, behavioral ecology, and ethology in a unique and wide-ranging synthesis of theory and research on animal cognition, in the broadest sense--from species-specific adaptations of vision in fish and associative learning in rats to discussions of theory of mind in chimpanzees, dogs, and ravens. She reviews the latest research on topics such as episodic memory, metacognition, and cooperation and other-regarding behavior in animals, as well as recent theories about what makes human cognition unique. In every part of this new edition, Shettleworth incorporates findings and theoretical approaches that have emerged since the first edition was published in 1998. The chapters are now organized into three sections: Fundamental Mechanisms (perception, learning, categorization, memory), Physical Cognition (space, time, number, physical causation), and Social Cognition (social knowledge, social learning, communication). Shettleworth has also added new chapters on evolution and the brain and on numerical cognition, and a new chapter on physical causation that integrates theories of instrumental behavior with discussions of foraging, planning, and tool using.
Author : Steven Platek,Julian Keenan,Todd Shackelford
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 637 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780262162418
An essential reference for the new discipline of evolutionary cognitive neuroscience that defines the field's approach of applying evolutionary theory to guide brain-behavior investigations. Since Darwin we have known that evolution has shaped all organisms and that biological organs—including the brain and the highly crafted animal nervous system—are subject to the pressures of natural and sexual selection. It is only relatively recently, however, that the cognitive neurosciences have begun to apply evolutionary theory and methods to the study of brain and behavior. This landmark reference documents and defines the emerging field of evolutionary cognitive neuroscience. Chapters by leading researchers demonstrate the power of the evolutionary perspective to yield new data, theory, and insights on the evolution and functional modularity of the brain. Evolutionary cognitive neuroscience covers all areas of cognitive neuroscience, from nonhuman brain-behavior relationships to human cognition and consciousness, and each section of Evolutionary Cognitive Neuroscience addresses a different adaptive problem. After an introductory section that outlines the basic tenets of both theory and methodology of an evolutionarily informed cognitive neuroscience, the book treats neuroanatomy from ontogenetic and phylogenetic perspectives and explores reproduction and kin recognition, spatial cognition and language, and self-awareness and social cognition. Notable findings include a theory to explain the extended ontogenetic and brain development periods of big-brained organisms, fMRI research on the neural correlates of romantic attraction, an evolutionary view of sex differences in spatial cognition, a theory of language evolution that draws on recent research on mirror neurons, and evidence for a rudimentary theory of mind in nonhuman primates. A final section discusses the ethical implications of evolutionary cognitive neuroscience and the future of the field. Contributors: C. Davison Ankney, Simon Baron-Cohen, S. Marc Breedlove, William Christiana, Michael Corballis, Robin I. M. Dunbar, Russell Fernald, Helen Fisher, Jonathan Flombaum, Farah Focquaert, Steven J.C. Gaulin, Aaron Goetz, Kevin Guise, Ruben C. Gur, William D. Hopkins, Farzin Irani, Julian Paul Keenan, Michael Kimberly, Stephen Kosslyn, Sarah L. Levin, Lori Marino, David Newlin, Ivan S. Panyavin, Shilpa Patel, Webb Phillips, Steven M. Platek, David Andrew Puts, Katie Rodak, J. Philippe Rushton, Laurie Santos, Todd K. Shackelford, Kyra Singh, Sean T. Stevens, Valerie Stone, Jaime W. Thomson, Gina Volshteyn, Paul Root Wolpe
Author : Rick Kemp,Bruce McConachie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781351690362
The Routledge Companion to Theatre, Performance and Cognitive Science integrates key findings from the cognitive sciences (cognitive psychology, neuroscience, evolutionary studies and relevant social sciences) with insights from theatre and performance studies. This rapidly expanding interdisciplinary field dynamically advances critical and theoretical knowledge, as well as driving innovation in practice. The anthology includes 30 specially commissioned chapters, many written by authors who have been at the cutting-edge of research and practice in the field over the last 15 years. These authors offer many empirical answers to four significant questions: How can performances in theatre, dance and other media achieve more emotional and social impact? How can we become more adept teachers and learners of performance both within and outside of classrooms? What can the cognitive sciences reveal about the nature of drama and human nature in general? How can knowledge transfer, from a synthesis of science and performance, assist professionals such as nurses, care-givers, therapists and emergency workers in their jobs? A wide-ranging and authoritative guide, The Routledge Companion to Theatre, Performance and Cognitive Science is an accessible tool for not only students, but practitioners and researchers in the arts and sciences as well.
Author : Bruce McConachie,F. Elizabeth Hart
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2006-10-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135989460
This anthology is the first of its kind. In addition to opening up fresh perspectives on theatre studies – with applications for dramatic criticism, performance analysis, acting practice, audience response, theatre history, and other important areas – the book sets the agenda for future work, helping to map the emergence of this new approach. Following a comprehensive introduction, the contributors examine: the interfaces between cognitive studies and Lacanian psychoanalysis, phenomenology and communication theory different ideas from cognitive studies that open up the meanings of several plays the process of acting and the work of Antonio Damasio theatrical response: the dynamics of perception, and the riots that greeted the 1907 production of The Playboy of the Western World. This original and authoritative work will be attractive to scholars and graduate students of drama, theatre, and performance.
Author : Blandine Françoise Doligez,Laure Cauchard
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889765522
Author : Corinne Jola,Pil Hansen
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889714308
Author : Nicholas Rescher
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0819177555
This collection of essays originated from an interdisciplinary conference on 'Evolutionary Epistemology' held in Pittsburgh in December of 1988 under the sponsorship of the University of Pittsburgh's Center for Philosophy of Science. Contents: Epistemological Roles for Selection Theory, by Donald T. Campbell; Evolutionary Models of Science, by Ronald N. Giere; Should Epistemologists Take Darwin Seriously? by Michael Bradie; Natural Selection, Justification, and Inference to the Best Explanation, by Alan H. Goldman; Interspecific Competition, Evolutionary Epistemology, and Ecology, by Kristin Shrader-Frechette; Toward Making Evolutionary Epistemology into a Truly Naturalized Epistemology, by William Bechtel; Confessions of a Creationist, by C. Kenneth Waters. Co-published with the Center for Philosophy of Science.
Author : Ken Richardson
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0415173701
... Offers a new insight into the arguments (of nature versus nurture) by showing that many of the assumptions on both sides are false ... re-examines evidence about the nature of genes, evolution and the nature of the environment in the development of cognitive ability.
Author : Y C Lee
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9789814522083
This review volume represents the first attempt to provide a comprehensive overview of this exciting and rapidly evolving development. The book comprises specially commissioned articles by leading researchers in the areas of neural networks and connectionist systems, classifier systems, adaptive network systems, genetic algorithm, cellular automata, artificial immune systems, evolutionary genetics, cognitive science, optical computing, combinatorial optimization, and cybernetics. Contents:Connectionist Learning Through Gradient Following (R J Williams)Efficient Stochastic Gradient Learning Algorithms for Neural Networks (Y C Lee)Information Storage in Fully Connected Networks (D Psaltis & S S Venkatesh)Neuronic Equations and their Solutions (E R Caianiello)The Dynamics of Searches Directed by Genetic Algorithms (J H Holland)Probabilistic Neural Networks (J W Clark)Some Quantitative Issues in the Theory of Perception (A Zee)Speech Perception and Production by a Self-Organising Neural Network (M A Cohen et al.)Neocognitron: A Neural Network Model for Visual Pattern Recognition (K Fukushima et al.)Learning to Predict the Secondary Structure of Globular Proteins (N Qian & T J Sejnowski)Exploiting Chaos to Predict the Future and Reduce Noise (J D Farmer & J J Sidorowich)How Neural Nets Work (A Lapedes & R Farber)Pattern Recognition and Single Layer Networks (T Maxwell)What is the Significance of Neural Networks for AI? (H H Szu)Selected Bibliography on Connectionism (O G Selfridge et al.) Readership: Computer scientists, applied mathematicians, physicists, biologists, cognitive scientists, microelectronic engineers, genetic scientists, engineers and artificial intelligence researchers.