| Description |
xv, 751 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Section I. Philosophical Foundations -- 1. Visual awareness -- 2. Where am I? -- 3. Can machines think? -- 4. MInds, brains and programs -- Section II. Experimental Design -- 5. Experimental design in psychological research -- Section III. Perception -- 6. Perception -- 7. The auditory scene -- Section IV. Categorization -- 8. Principles of categorization -- 9. Philosophical investigations, sections 65-78 -- 10. Representation and knowledge in long-term memory --Section V. Learning and Memory -- 11. Introduction to learning -- 12. Experimental procedures in animal learning -- 13. Memory for musical attributes -- 14. Memory -- Section VI. Attention -- 15. Attention -- 16. Features and objects in visual processing -- Section VII. Music Cognition -- 17. The development of music perception and cognition -- Section VIII. Expertise -- 18. Prospects and limits of the empirical study of expertise: an introduction -- 19. Three problems in teaching general skills -- 20. Musical expertise -- 21. Judgment under uncertainty: heuristics and biases -- Section IX. Judgment and Decision Making -- 22. Decision making -- |
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Section X. Evolutionary Psychology -- 23. Adaptations, exaptations and spandrels -- 24. Toward mapping the evolved functional organization of mind and brain -- Section XI. Language -- 25. The invention of language by children: environmental and biological influences on the acquisition of language -- 26. Statistical language learning: mechanisms and constraints -- 27. Logic and conversation -- Section XII. Intelligence -- 28. The theory of multiple intelligences: in a nutshell -- 29. Individual differences in cognition -- Section XIII. Cognitive neuroscience -- 30. Localization of cognitive operations in the human brain -- 31. How the brain gives rise to the mind -- Section XIV. Cross-Cultural Cognition -- 32. Some propositions about the relations between culture and human cognition -- 33. Do the languages we speak shape the way we think? |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Cognitive psychology.
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| Author |
Levitin, Daniel J.
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| LC no. |
2010041152 |
| ISBN |
0205711472 (alk. paper) |
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9780205711475 (alk. paper) |
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