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Language and communication problems have long figured prominently in the definition of mental retardation. Volume 27 of the International Review of Research in Mental Retardation focuses exclusively on these language and communication issues. The pace of research on...
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Academic Press
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2003-11-14
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Colour has long been a source of fascination to both scientists and philosophers. In one sense, colours are in the mind of the beholder, in another sense they belong to the external world. Colours appear to lie on the boundary where we have divided the world into...
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OUP Oxford
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2003-11-06
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This guide to the WAIS-III and WMS-III tests is written to help clinical practitioners achieve efficient and accurate interpretations of test results. The only interpretive guide to be based on data obtained while standardizing the tests, this reference source provides...
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Academic Press
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2003-10-27
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Practitioners seeking the most current advances in the field of ADHD and LD must often bridge the gap between research and practice. The Therapist's Guide to Learning and Attention Disorders provides that bridge through the authors, who are both researchers and...
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Academic Press
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2003-10-07
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The Psychology of Learning and Motivation publishes empirical and theoretical contributions in cognitive and experimental psychology, ranging from classical and instrumental conditioning to complex learning and problem solving. Each chapter provides a thoughtful...
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Academic Press
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2003-09-04
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More than one third of the human brain is devoted to the processes of seeing - vision is after all the main way in which we gather information about the world. But human vision is a dynamic process during which the eyes continually sample the environment. Where most...
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OUP Oxford
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2003-08-07
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Music offers a unique opportunity to better understand the organization of the human brain. Like language, music exists in all human societies. Like language, music is a complex, rule-governed activity that seems specific to humans, and associated with a specific brain...
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OUP Oxford
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2003-07-10
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The book provides a comprehensive state-of-the-art overview of current research on cognitive and applied aspects of eye movements.The contents include peer-reviewed chapters based on a selection of papers presented at the 11th European Conference on Eye Movements...
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North Holland
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2003-06-05
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What will be the future of social science? Where exactly do we stand, and where do we go from here?What kinds of problems should we be addressing, with what kinds of approaches and arguments? In Cognitive Dimensions of Social Science, Mark Turner offers an answer to...
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Oxford University Press
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2003-03-27
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Implicit memory refers to a change in task performance due to an earlier experience that is not consciously remembered. The topic of implicit memory has been studied from two quite different perspectives for the past 20 years. On the one hand, researchers interested in...
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OUP Oxford
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2002-11-28
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This is an innovative, readable and engaging companion to the language of memory research. It consists of over 130t entries, bound within a coherent conceptual framework. Each entry starts with a definition, or a set of definitions,er followed by in-depth and...
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OUP Oxford
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2002-10-17
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Cognitive electrophysiology is a very well established field utilizing new technologies such as bioelectric events-related potentials (ERP) and magnetic (ERF) recordings to pursue the investigation of mind and brain. Current research focuses on reviewing ERP/ERF...
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Academic Press
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2002-10-10
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Music is a tremendously powerful channel through which people develop their personal and social identities.Music is used to communicate emotions, thoughts, political statements, social relationships, and physical expressions. But, just as language can mediate the...
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OUP Oxford
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2002-07-18
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The Psychology of Learning and Motivation publishes empirical and theoretical contributions in cognitive and experimental psychology, ranging from classical and instrumental conditioning to complex learning and problem solving. Each chapter provides a thoughtful...
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Academic Press
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2002-06-18
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This is the first major textbook to offer a truly comprehensive review of cognitive science in its fullest sense. Ranging from artificial intelligence models of neural processes and cognitive psychology to recent discursive and cultural theories, Rom Harré offers an...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2002-02-18
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This book examines how Western behavioral science--which has generally focused on negative aspects of human nature--holds up to cross-cultural scrutiny, in particular the Tibetan Buddhist celebration of the human potential for altruism, empathy, and compassion....
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2001-12-06
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From Fragments to Objects
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North Holland
Parution :
2001-11-30
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This book addresses the central problem of music cognition: how listeners' responses move beyond mere registration of auditory events to include the organization, interpretation, and remembrance of these events in terms of their function in a musical context of pitch...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2001-11-14
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This one-stop guide offers state-of-the-art practical and interpretive guides for the Wechsler Memory Scales, used to interpret intellectual and memory function in dementia patients, substance-abusing patients, and individuals recovering from head trauma, among others.
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Wiley
Parution :
2001-10-19
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Essentials of Psychological Assessment
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Signal detection theory, as developed in electrical engineering and based on statistical decision theory, was first applied to human sensory discrimination about 40 years ago. The theory's intent was to explain how humans discriminate and how we might use reliable...
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Oxford University Press
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2001-10-11
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