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Mind Hacks
Tips & Tools for Using Your Brain (Hacks) by Tom Stafford, Matt Webb The brain is a fearsomely complex information-processing environment–one that often eludes our ability to understand it. At any given time, the bra...
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Time and memory
Issues in Philosophy and Psychology (Consciousness and Self-Consciousness Series, 1) by Christoph Hoerl (Editor), Teresa McCormack (Editor) The capacity to represent and think about time is one of the most fundamental and least...
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The rosetta stone of the human mind
Three languages to integrate neurobiology and psychology Vincenzo R. Sanguineti The study of the brain-mind complex has been hampered by the dichotomy between objective biological neuroscience and subjective psychological scien...
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Does Consciousness Cause Behavior?
Our intuition tells us that we, our conscious selves, cause our own voluntary acts. Yet scientists have long questioned this; Thomas Huxley, for example, in 1874 compared mental events to a steam whistle that contributes nothin...
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Beyond the learning curve: The construction of mind
This new book takes the view that learning is a major influence on the nature of the processes and representations that fill our minds. Beyond the Learning Curve is a thought provoking and challenging new text for students and ...
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Understanding Emotions
Keith Oatley and Jennifer M. Jenkins’s best-selling book on the psychology of emotions is the most highly regarded and engaging text for the emotions course. While retaining its interdisciplinary breadth, historical insig...
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Consciousness and Mind
Consciousness and Mind presents David Rosenthal’s influential work on the nature of consciousness. Central to that work is Rosenthal’s higher-order-thought theory of consciousness, according to which a sensation, th...
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Causal models. How People Think about the World and Its Alternatives
Human beings are active agents who can think. To understand how thought serves action requires understanding how people conceive of the relation between cause and effect, that is, between action and outcome. In cognitive terms,...
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The innate mind
This is the first volume of a projected three-volume set on the subject of innateness. The extent to which the mind is innate is one of the central questions in the human sciences, with important implications for many surroundi...