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Traces the develoment of one of the most active areas of investigation in cognitive science, bringing together the essential background readings and providing a broad sampling of contemporary research.

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A new theory of conceptual representations as a bridge between the symbolic and connectionist approaches.

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Setting forth the state of the art, leading researchers present a survey on the fast-developing field of Connectionist Psycholinguistics: using connectionist or neural networks, which are inspired by brain architecture, to model empirical data on human language processing.

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Setting forth the state of the art, leading researchers present a survey on the fast-developing field of Connectionist Psycholinguistics: using connectionist or neural networks, which are inspired by brain architecture, to model empirical data on human language processing.

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In this book, Fayek summarizes current arguments and debates stemming from neurological and phenomenological perspectives. He presents the notion that consciousness needs to be considered a human phenomenon and not simply a manifestation of brain activity, which is an occurrence shared by all organisms.

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An exciting introduction to consciousness research and its applications to our waking and sleeping moments.

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What goes on in our heads when we have a thought This book presents an empirically-supported theory of consciousness. It applies the resources and insights of modern neuroscience to experiments that detect the changes in brain activity.

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This work explains an increasingly popular view dubbed the Consistent Life Ethic, which holds that all life deserves reverence, so all social support for actions that destroy life should be withdrawn.

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The larger theme is cognitive architecture and the twelve chapters show the generality of the problems associated with this theme as it impinges on almost every area of cognitive science and most methodological approaches adopted to date.

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The larger theme is cognitive architecture and the twelve chapters show the generality of the problems associated with this theme as it impinges on almost every area of cognitive science and most methodological approaches adopted to date.

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Provides techniques for gaining control of emotions and putting them to positive use while also developing the theoretical insights behind such control.

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Provides techniques for gaining control of emotions and putting them to positive use while also developing the theoretical insights behind such control.

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"Shaddock makes sense of intersubjectivity, the functional paradigm shift in highbrow psychotherapy, as both a way of thinking about our psychological lives and a way of doing clinical work. Applying i"

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An overview of smoker characteristics and interventions are represented and some of the methodological flaws are offered to alert future researchers.

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The director and founding member of the Houston Galveston Institute documents the emergence of postmodern narrative therapy and shows how linguistics and social discourse influence the changing culture of psychotherapy. Anderson shows how the therapist can empower the patient through the use of narrative and discourse, thereby creating a collaborative environment.

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This book provides a basic approach to the linguistic analysis of conversation, building toward a theory of the aesthetics of conversation by analyzing spontaneous talk among friends. It sheds light on such issues as pacing, turn-taking, storytelling, and humor, showing the effects on interaction when participants' conversational styles differ.

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People with narcissistic behaviours and attitudes boast and brag constantly, take credit for other people's work, expect favours but return few or none, and never listen. They devalue others, micromanage, are hypercritical and mistrustful. This book provides methods for people to cope with a near-narcissist or a narcissistic person.