The first ethnographic exploration of the contentious debate over whether nonhuman primates are capable of cultureIn the 1950s, Japanese zoologists took note when a number of macaques invented and passed on new food-washing behaviors within their troop.
New Therapeutics for Traumatic Brain Injury: Prevention of Secondary Brain Damage and Enhancement of Repair and Regeneration explores traumatic brain injury (TBI), a major cause of death and disability throughout the world.
Psychology of Learning and Motivation publishes empirical and theoretical contributions in cognitive and experimental psychology, ranging from classical and instrumental conditioning to complex learning and problem solving.
Designed for educators, researchers, practitioners, or anyone interested in maximizing human potential, Motivation for Learning and Performance outlines 50 key motivation principles based on the latest scientific evidence from the disciplines of psychology, education, business, athletics, and neurology.
Imagery Rescripting Theory and Practice is a complete practitioner's guide to helping clients overcome intrusive mental images and traumatic memories through Imagery Rescripting (IR).
Mangelnde soziale Kompetenz führt bei Personen mit hochfunktionalem Autismus und Asperger-Syndrom dazu, dass sie trotz normaler Intelligenz den Anforderungen im privaten und beruflichen Umfeld nicht gewachsen sind.
'Inspiring, refreshing and practical' Bessel van der Kolk, author of The Body Keeps the ScoreThe new essential self-healing bible - a revolutionary body-first guide to regulating your nervous system, curing long-term pain and healing from trauma for good.
Animal Creativity and Innovation explores theories and research on animal innovation and creativity, comparing and contrasting it with theory and research on human creativity and innovation.
Este libro es una invitación a los lectores profesionales de la salud y a todos aquellos que simplemente les interese el tema de la unidad cuerpo-mente- espíritu-ecosistema, a ser promotores de dicha integración.
El cerebro humano es una máquina extraordinaria, capaz de transformarse a sí misma a partir de la experiencia y de albergar talentos que nos vuelven únicos como especie: lenguaje, lectura, matemáticas, creación artística.
Cada enfermedad constituye un gran libro en el cual se puede leer rasgos de nuestra personalidad y situaciones de la vida que necesitamos solucionar para sentirnos bien física y mentalmente.
For a few decades, the puzzle of consciousness, which for centuries was analysed by philosophers, has been finding a wide interest in the scientific field, where previously it was not entitled to be a member.
This volume focuses on the modeling of cognition, and brings together contributions from psychologists and researchers in the field of cognitive science.
The Natural History of the Doucs and Snub-nosed Monkeys provides a comprehensive introduction to the biology of some of the rarest and least-known nonhuman primates.
The experience of emotion is a ubiquitous component of the stream of consciousness; emotional qualia interact with other contents and processes of consciousness in complex ways.
One of the most successful methods for discovering the way mental processes are organized is to observe the effects in experiments of selectively influencing the processes.
Humans possess a remarkable ability to extract rich three-dimensional information about sound environments simply by analyzing the acoustic signals they receive at their two ears.
Our age is characterized by global access to information, places and cultures: we can gain more and more knowledge about 'the others': other people and their cultures by 'indirect knowledge' - learning about them via the global information net assisted by electronic and other high-tech communication channels, as well as by 'direct knowledge': personally visiting various parts of the world and meeting local people in their own natural and social environments.
'This book isn't just a guide; it's a lifeline' Shirley Ballas, head judge, Strictly Come Dancing, and ambassador for CALM and Suicide&CoWorldwide, suicide is one of the leading causes of death among young people, and numbers continue to increase.
Este libro es el resultado de una especie de 'experimento' que emprendieron estudiantes y profesores del doctorado en Psicología de la Universidad del Valle.
El presente libro recoge el proceso de la investigacion llevada a cabo y pretende poner en circulacion entre la comunidad academica y cientifica los resultados obtenidos y llegar, de manera particular, a estudiantes de Psicologia, docentes e investigadores interesados en la tematica, como una herramienta didactica que permita referenciar datos, revisar literatura relevante, elaborar ensayos cientificos, despertar el interes en la formulacion de nuevos proyectos y, en fin, generar el debate critico y proposito en torno a aspectos conceptuales o procedimentales referentes a este objeto de estudio y su abordaje.
Human Cognition and Social Agent Technology is written for readers who are curious about what human (social) cognition is, and whether and how advanced software programs or robots can become social agents.
Analogical Modeling (AM) is an exemplar-based general theory of description that uses both neighbors and non-neighbors (under certain well-defined conditions of homogeneity) to predict language behavior.
This book represents the state of the art in cognitive stylistics a rapidly expanding field at the interface between linguistics, literary studies and cognitive science.
This expanded second edition carries forward the initial insights into the biological and existential significances of animation by taking contemporary research findings in cognitive science and philosophy and in neuroscience into critical and constructive account.
The book is a themed, mutually referenced collection of articles from a very high-powered set of authors based on the workshop on "e;Current developments in non-human primate gesture research"e;, which was held in July 2010 at the European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany.
From TikTok sensation Keila Shaheen, author of The Shadow Work Journal, which has sold more than a million copies worldwide, a journal that explains the numerology-inspired 369 method of manifestation and offers neuroscience-based prompts to help you channel it every day.
El libro se integra en dos momentos diferentes, el primero, que es su aspecto esencial, expresa una nueva interpretación del legado de Vygotski e integra innumerables fuentes antes desconocidas sobre ese legado.
Live more positively with simple exercises based in cognitive behavioral therapyNot every mental health struggle involves a life-altering event or an official diagnosis, but that doesn't mean it can't take a toll on your life and happiness.
Die systemische Behandlung von bipolaren Störungen fokussiert auf die Gefühle und Denkprozesse der Betroffenen in ihrem sozialen Kontext und beschreibt die komplexen Wechselwirkungen im biologischen, psychischen und sozialen System, die zur Entstehung und Aufrechterhaltung der Störung beitragen.
Die Neubearbeitung des Manuals liefert eine praxisorientierte Darstellung kognitiv-verhaltenstherapeutischer Interventionen zur ambulanten und stationären Behandlung von schizophrenen Patienten.
Neben Gesundheit und einem sicheren Arbeitsplatz zählt der Wunsch, in einer festen Partnerschaft Geborgenheit, Wertschätzung und Zärtlichkeit zu erleben, bei zahlreichen Menschen zu einem der wichtigsten Faktoren des Wohlbefindens.
Prokrastination − chronisches exzessives Aufschieben − ist eine klinisch relevante Arbeitsstörung, genauer ein Problem der Selbststeuerung, das in der psychotherapeutischen Praxis häufig eine eigenständige psychische Störung mit gravierenden Folgen fürdie Lebensführung der Betroffenen darstellt.
Die Narrative Expositionstherapie (NET) ist eine kurze, pragmatische, evidenzbasierte Methode zur Behandlung der Posttraumatischen Belastungsstörung bei Opfern komplexer Traumatisierungen, wie z.
