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The Mechanism of Mind

Author : Edward de Bono
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1473527570
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book The Mechanism of Mind written by Edward de Bono and published by Random House. This book was released on 2015-07-02 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mechanism of Mind presents Edward de Bono’s original theories on how the brain functions, processes information and organises it. It explains why the brain, the ’mechanism’, can only work in certain ways and introduces the four basic types of thinking that have gone on to inform his life’s work, namely ‘natural thinking’, ‘logical thinking’,’ mathematical thinking’ and ‘lateral thinking’. De Bono also outlines his argument for introducing the word ‘PO’ as an alternative to the word ‘NO’ when putting lateral thinking into practice. Drawing on colourful visual imagery to help explain his theories and thought-processes, from light bulbs and sugar cubes to photography and water erosion, The Mechanism of Mind remains as fascinating and as insightful as it was when it was first published in 1969. This is a must-read for anyone who wants to gain a greater understanding of how the mind works and organises information – and how Edward de Bono came to develop his creative thinking tools.

Introducing Language and Cognition

Author : Michael Sharwood Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107152895
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Introducing Language and Cognition written by Michael Sharwood Smith and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers something unique - a perspective of mind and language where diverse topics are carefully integrated within one framework.

Anatomy of the Mind

Author : Ron Sun
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199794707
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Anatomy of the Mind written by Ron Sun and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-20 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to understand human cognition and psychology through a comprehensive computational theory of the human mind, namely, a computational "cognitive architecture" (or more specifically, the Clarion cognitive architecture). The goal of this work is to develop a unified framework for understanding the human mind, and within the unified framework, to develop process-based, mechanistic explanations of a large variety of psychological phenomena. Specifically, the book first describes the essential Clarion framework and its cognitive-psychological justifications, then its computational instantiations, and finally its applications to capturing, simulating, and explaining various psychological phenomena and empirical data. The book shows how the models and simulations shed light on psychological mechanisms and processes through the lens of a unified framework. In fields ranging from cognitive science, to psychology, to artificial intelligence, and even to philosophy, researchers, graduate and undergraduate students, and practitioners of various kinds may have interest in topics covered by this book. The book may also be suitable for seminars or courses, at graduate or undergraduate levels, on cognitive architectures or cognitive modeling (i.e. computational psychology).

Mental Mechanisms

Author : William Bechtel
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0805863338
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book Mental Mechanisms written by William Bechtel and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Creative Mind

Author : Margaret A. Boden
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134379587
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book The Creative Mind written by Margaret A. Boden and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-02-24 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition of The Creative Mind has been updated to include recent developments in artificial intelligence, with a new preface, introduction and conclusion by the author.

Brain Mechanisms

Author : L. Andrew Coward
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1525597922
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book Brain Mechanisms written by L. Andrew Coward and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brain Mechanisms: Linking Cognitive Phenomena to Neuron Activity shows how to understand higher cognition in terms of brain anatomy, physiology and chemistry. Natural selection pressures have resulted in all information processes in the brain being one of just two general types: condition definition/detections and behavioural recommendation definition/integrations. Using these information process types, hierarchies of description can be created that map from cognitive phenomena to the activity of the billions of neurons in the brain. These hierarchies make it possible to create an intuitively satisfying understanding of how neuron activity results in human memory, consciousness and self-awareness. These ideas were previously described at a technical level in Towards a Theoretical Neuroscience: from Cell Chemistry to Cognition. This book presents the ideas for a more general readership.

Cognition and Intelligence

Author : Robert J. Sternberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521827442
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Cognition and Intelligence written by Robert J. Sternberg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Explaining the Brain

Author : Carl F. Craver
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 0191538442
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Explaining the Brain written by Carl F. Craver and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2007-06-07 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What distinguishes good explanations in neuroscience from bad? Carl F. Craver constructs and defends standards for evaluating neuroscientific explanations that are grounded in a systematic view of what neuroscientific explanations are: descriptions of multilevel mechanisms. In developing this approach, he draws on a wide range of examples in the history of neuroscience (e.g. Hodgkin and Huxleys model of the action potential and LTP as a putative explanation for different kinds of memory), as well as recent philosophical work on the nature of scientific explanation. Readers in neuroscience, psychology, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of science will find much to provoke and stimulate them in this book.

Mechanisms of the Mind

Author : Parag Jasani
Publisher : Notion Press
ISBN 13 : 1644299461
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (442 download)

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Download or read book Mechanisms of the Mind written by Parag Jasani and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2019-01-03 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mechanisms of the Mind is the ONLY BOOK available that reveals what goes on in your mind when you think, set goals, make decisions, etc. and how subconscious & unconscious thoughts & processes influence you, all of which are explained using common sense logic. It is a result of research done by author Parag Jasani, who has developed Dichotomized Operating System Model, a model that explains how the mind develops and works in the brain. It is the first ever causal account of the human mind and is based on the process of natural selection proposed by Charles Darwin in the year 1859. Besides explaining mechanisms underlying diverse mind phenomena like thinking, sensations, perception, awareness, attention, multitasking, instincts, etc., the model solves millennia old mysteries like consciousness, free will, subjective experience, the self, etc. by revealing their underlying mechanisms using a single set of functional components on a single platform. In particular, the model shows how a simple mechanism - so simple, it can be easily understood by an 8-year-old - offers brain the capability of making 'its own' decisions, when no other mechanism in the world can. It also shows how your thoughts, actions, personality and behaviour are controlled by something that you cannot hold in your hands, has no physical dimensions, does not weigh anything, has no smell and is not visible. The book is full of cause-and-effect mechanisms which are explained in a step-by-step manner, thereby simplifying the workings of the human brain - the most complex structure known to the mankind - to the level that can be understood by anyone who is prepared to make the necessary effort. No prior knowledge of any subject is required to understand it. It is your first chance to comprehensively understand how your mind works - a new way to introspect. Book preview & updates: mechanismsofthemind.com

Neurocognitive Mechanisms

Author : Gualtiero Piccinini
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198866283
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Neurocognitive Mechanisms written by Gualtiero Piccinini and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-10-08 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gualtiero Piccinini presents a systematic and rigorous philosophical defence of the computational theory of cognition. His view posits that cognition involves neural computation within multilevel neurocognitive mechanisms, and includes novel ideas about ontology, functions, neural representation, neural computation, and consciousness.

The Mind

Author : E. Bruce Goldstein
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262358778
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book The Mind written by E. Bruce Goldstein and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible and engaging account of the mind and its connection to the brain. The mind encompasses everything we experience, and these experiences are created by the brain--often without our awareness. Experience is private; we can't know the minds of others. But we also don't know what is happening in our own minds. In this book, E. Bruce Goldstein offers an accessible and engaging account of the mind and its connection to the brain. He takes as his starting point two central questions--what is the mind? and what is consciousness?--and leads readers through topics that range from conceptions of the mind in popular culture to the wiring system of the brain. Throughout, he draws on the latest research, explaining its significance and relevance.

Mental Mechanisms

Author : William Bechtel
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 0805863346
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book Mental Mechanisms written by William Bechtel and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2008 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Magic and the Mind

Author : Eugene Subbotsky
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190453117
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Magic and the Mind written by Eugene Subbotsky and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-31 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magical thinking and behavior have traditionally been viewed as immature, misleading alternatives to scientific thought that in children inevitably diminish with age. In adults, these inclinations have been labeled by psychologists largely as superstitions that feed on frustration, uncertainty, and the unpredictable nature of certain human activities. In Magic and the Mind, Eugene Subbotsky provides an overview of the mechanisms and development of magical thinking and beliefs throughout the life span while arguing that the role of this type of thought in human development should be reconsidered. Rather than an impediment to scientific reasoning or a byproduct of cognitive development, in children magical thinking is an important and necessary complement to these processes, enhancing creativity at problem-solving and reinforcing coping strategies, among other benefits. In adults, magical thinking and beliefs perform important functions both for individuals (coping with unsolvable problems and stressful situations) and for society (enabling mass influence and promoting social harmony). Operating in realms not bound by physical causality, such as emotion, relationships, and suggestion, magical thinking is an ongoing, developing psychological mechanism that, Subbotsky argues, is integral in the contexts of politics, commercial advertising, and psychotherapy, and undergirds our construction and understanding of meaning in both mental and physical worlds. Magic and the Mind represents a unique contribution to our understanding of the importance of magical thinking, offering experimental evidence and conclusions never before collected in one source. It will be of interest to students and scholars of developmental psychology, as well as sociologists, anthropologists, and educators.

Motives and Mechanisms

Author : Rom Harré
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317364163
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Motives and Mechanisms written by Rom Harré and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-09-16 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the first introductory statement of the ‘new psychology’, Motives and Mechanisms, originally published in 1985, aims to bring the study of human action to the forefront of the subject. Like any science, the practice of psychology is very much influenced by the hidden assumptions of its practitioners. The argument put forward in this important text shows how these assumptions can be brought out by comparing psychology with the natural sciences and with common-sense understanding. In pursuing the integration of traditional research methods with a new style of investigation, the basic principle is that social structures and mental structures are in reciprocal relation with one another because each is involved in the creation of the other. By adopting this principle social structures become the basis for research into the cognitive and emotional organization of mind. The authors devote two key chapters to the central question that underlies this stance: are human actions and human actors’ products of internal processes, such as those described by Freud, or of external social forces, of the kind described by Mead?

Theory of Mind

Author : Elizabeth Sherwood
Publisher : Nova Science Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781634638562
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (385 download)

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Download or read book Theory of Mind written by Elizabeth Sherwood and published by Nova Science Publishers. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live at the dawn of a revolution in human interrelatedness. Technological advancements in communication demand interrelatedness not only with family, friends and colleagues but also with Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn connections. Perhaps this demand has contributed to the resurgence of efforts toward unity across social divisions toward social justice. But even as forces for solidarity are at work in the world, forces against solidarity threaten our existence and some forces work both for and against solidarity. One such force is the very nature of our humanity and in particular the role of theory of mind (ToM) in our moral lives. Theory of mind is a term defining the ability of any animal to attribute mental states to itself and others, and to understand that conspecifics have beliefs, desires and intentions; and also that these may be different from one's own. It is developed at the cross-section of epistemology, cognitive science and psychology and is also closely connected to other constructs such as meta-cognition, self-awareness; reflection, empathy etc. This book discusses the development in children, brain mechanisms and social implications of the theory of mind.

Mechanisms and Consciousness

Author : Marek Pokropski
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000480739
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Mechanisms and Consciousness written by Marek Pokropski and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book develops a new approach to naturalizing phenomenology. The author proposes to integrate phenomenology with the mechanistic framework that offers new methodological perspectives for studying complex mental phenomena such as consciousness. While mechanistic explanatory models are widely applied in cognitive science, their approach to describing subjective phenomena is limited. The author argues that phenomenology can fill this gap. He proposes two novel ways of integrating phenomenology and mechanism. First, he presents a new reading of phenomenological analyses as functional analyses. Such functional phenomenology delivers a functional sketch of a target system and provides constraints on the space of possible mechanisms. Second, he develops the neurophenomenological approach in the direction of dynamic modeling of experience. He shows that neurophenomenology can deliver dynamical constraints on mechanistic models and thus inform the search for an underlying mechanism. Mechanisms and Consciousness will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in phenomenology, philosophy of mind, and the cognitive sciences.

Nondestructive Evaluation

Author : Peter J. Shull
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9780203911068
Total Pages : 880 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Nondestructive Evaluation written by Peter J. Shull and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2002-05-08 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describing NDE issues associated with real-world applications, this comprehensive book details conventional and forthcoming NDE technologies. It instructs on current practices, common techniques and equipment applications, and the potentials and limitations of current NDE methods. Each chapter details a different method, providing an overview, an e