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Professors and graduate students in the field of psychology thoughtfully examine the different perspectives emanating from scholarly research relating to the phenomenon of sex differences during the early years of human development. An introduction discusses social, political, and psychological pers

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An investigation of the effects of blindness and other types of visual deficit on cognitive abilities.

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This volume examines positive development across adulthood with particular emphasis on postformal thought. what key developmental experiences, if any, are needed for postformal thought to develop;

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How humans function as both the creators and creatures of an evolving culture.

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How humans function as both the creators and creatures of an evolving culture.

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This volume sets out to establish some parameters for the study of creativity. The authors examine earlier studies and present their own research findings on: the biological aspects of creativity, genes and memes, and notions of coincidence and transformation.

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The 12 chapters in this anthology describe ten different computer programs designed to help quantify the knowledge systems people use as they assimilate different types of information.

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An account of how anthropological methods can be combined with cognitive theory in studies of cognition. Drawing comparisons with navigation, this study argues that cultural systems have cognitive properties of their own that differ from the cognitive properties of the individuals within them.

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These essays trace Epstein's experimental and theoretical work over a 15-year period. Four of the essays were co-authored by the psychologist B.F. Skinner. The book demonstrates how the scientific study of behaviour can increase our understanding and effectiveness in many domains.

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author of The Invisible Computer If it is, as I have claimed that AI systems of the future will be less about artificial' intelligence and more about augmented' intelligence, Dr. Boy has produced a veritable handbook on the design of these cognitive prostheses.

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author of The Invisible Computer If it is, as I have claimed that AI systems of the future will be less about artificial' intelligence and more about augmented' intelligence, Dr. Boy has produced a veritable handbook on the design of these cognitive prostheses.

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Experimental research in deductive and inductive reasoning, the nature of artificial intelligence reasoning systems, nonmonotonic and common-sense reasoning, and general types of reasoning in artificial intelligence are examined.

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Morton Wagman's text compares the two realms, identifies consonant and disparate modes of cognition, and identifies a general theory of human and artificial intelligence.

A general theory of intellect entails the specific components of intellect as conceptualized in the domains of human and artificial intelligence.

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A scholarly examination of the centrality of the mind-body problem within and across the science of cognitionfrom philosophy to psychology to artificial intelligence to neural science.

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This book presents and critically evaluates the contributions of both cognitive psychology and artificial intelligence to our understanding of the nature of intelligence and intelligent systems.

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Cognitive style theory suggests that individuals utilize different patterns in acquiring knowledge. This text describes various styles of processing information that are employed by children as they receive new information in various settings, especially in teaching/learning situations.

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Paul Thagard proposes a general theory of coherence as the satisfaction of multiple interacting constraints, and discusses the theory's numerous psychological and philosophical applications.

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This systematic investigation of computation and mental phenomena by a noted psychologist and computer scientist argues that cognition is a form of computation, that the semantic contents of mental states are encoded in the same general way as computer representations are encoded.