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It's a jungle in there : how competition and cooperation in the brain shape the mind
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ISBN: 9780199829774 Year: 2014 Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,

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It's a Jungle in There pursues the hypothesis that the overarching theory of biology, Darwin's theory, should be the overarching theory of cognitive psychology. Taking this approach, David Rosenbaum, a cognitive psychologist and former editor of the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, proposes that the phenomena of cognitive psychology can be understood as emergent interactions among dumb neural elements all competing and cooperating in a kind of inner jungle. Rosenbaum suggests that this perspective allows for the presentation of cognitive psychology in a new way, both for students (for whom the book is mainly intended) and for seasoned investigators (who may be looking for a fresh way to approach and understand their material). Rather than offering cognitive psychology as a rag-tag collection of miscellaneous facts, as has generally been the case in cognitive-psychology textbooks, this volume presents cognitive psychology under a single rubric: "It's a jungle in there." Written in a light-hearted way with continual reference to hypothetical neural creatures eking out their livings in a tough environment, this text is meant to provide an over-arching principle that can motivate more in-depth study of the mind and brain.

Human motor control
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ISBN: 0125973004 132205388X 1493304348 0080571085 Year: 1991 Publisher: San Diego (Calif.) : Academic press,

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Physiotherapy. Alternative treatments --- biomechanica --- bewegingswetenschappen --- motion --- beweging --- Affective and dynamic functions --- bewegingsstoornissen --- Movement, Psychology of. --- Motor learning. --- Learning. --- Motor Activity. --- Psychomotor Performance. --- 612.8 --- Motor learning --- Movement, Psychology of --- 599.7 --- Bewegingsleer --- Fysiologie --- Motor psychology --- Motion --- Psychophysiology --- Motion study --- Movement education --- Muscular sense --- Motor skill learning --- Learning, Psychology of --- Physical education and training --- Perceptual Motor Performance --- Sensory Motor Performance --- Visual Motor Coordination --- Coordination, Visual Motor --- Coordinations, Visual Motor --- Motor Coordination, Visual --- Motor Coordinations, Visual --- Motor Performance, Perceptual --- Motor Performance, Sensory --- Motor Performances, Perceptual --- Motor Performances, Sensory --- Perceptual Motor Performances --- Performance, Perceptual Motor --- Performance, Psychomotor --- Performance, Sensory Motor --- Performances, Perceptual Motor --- Performances, Psychomotor --- Performances, Sensory Motor --- Psychomotor Performances --- Sensory Motor Performances --- Visual Motor Coordinations --- Motor Activity --- Athletic Performance --- Locomotor Activity --- Physical Activity --- Activities, Locomotor --- Activities, Motor --- Activities, Physical --- Activity, Locomotor --- Activity, Motor --- Activity, Physical --- Locomotor Activities --- Motor Activities --- Physical Activities --- Memory Training --- Phenomenography --- Training, Memory --- Memory Consolidation --- Education --- Zenuwstelsel. Zintuigen. Motorische neurowetenschappen --- Learning --- Psychomotor Performance


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Human motor control
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ISBN: 1282285513 9786612285516 0080921221 0123742269 9780123742261 9781282285514 6612285516 9780080921228 Year: 2010 Publisher: Amsterdam Boston, MA Elsevier Inc.

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Motor control is a complex process that involves the brain, muscles, limbs & often external objects. It underlies motion, balance, stability, coordination & our interaction with others & technology. This book provides an introduction, encompassing the psychological, physiological & computational approaches to motor control.


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Knowing hands : the cognitive psychology of manual control
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ISBN: 1316944328 1316148521 1316942082 1107094720 110747664X Year: 2017 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Whenever you get dressed, carry objects, write, draw, or gesture, you express knowledge about how to get things done with your hands. Ironically, that knowledge is often difficult to express. Typically you can't say what you know. Still, it would be enormously useful to identify the knowledge underlying manual control. The design of equipment and transportation systems might better anticipate the abilities and limitations of users, and methods of teaching and rehabilitating skills might improve. This book, the first on the cognitive psychology of manual control, uncovers the hidden knowledge that hands express. Organized around key topics in this emerging area, including the role of the will in manual control, illusions concerning hand position sense, and the coordination of manual actions with others, Knowing Hands explains the planning and control of manual actions in everyday life.


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Action, mind, and brain : an introduction
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ISBN: 0262543397 9780262543392 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press,

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An engaging and accessible introduction to the psychology and neuroscience of physical action.This engaging and accessible book offers the first introductory text on the psychology and neuroscience of physical action. Written by a leading researcher in the field, it covers the interplay of action, mind, and brain, showing that many core concepts in philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, and technology grew out of questions about the control of everyday physical actions. It explains action not as a “one-way street from stimuli to response” but as a continual perception-action cycle. The informal writing style invites students to think through the evidence step by step, helping them develop general thinking stills as well as learn specific facts. Special emphasis is placed on the role of underrepresented groups. The book discusses the intellectual background of the field, from Plato to Kant, Dewey, and others; applications and methods; and the physical substrates of action—bones, tendons, ligaments, muscles, and nerves. It considers the control of actions in space; learning, and the roles of nature and nurture; feedback; feedforward, or anticipated feedback; and degrees of freedom—the multiple ways of getting things done and three methods for narrowing the alternatives. The book is generously illustrated, including many images of thinkers who contributed to the field.

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MATLAB for behavioral scientists
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ISBN: 9780805862270 0805862277 0805863192 Year: 2007 Publisher: Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates,

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Behavioral scientists use computers in virtually all their work& from data collection to analysis, presentation, and simulation. However, there has been no book written to date specifically for behavioral scientists on how to program with a general-purpose programming language. 'MATLAB for Behavioral Scientists 'is a tremendously valuable textbook that walks behavioral scientists through the computer programming process, using terms that are relevant to their concerns and appreciating their special programming needs. Author David A. Rosenbaum, a cognitive psychologist with a Ph.D. in experimental psychology, introduces Matrix Laboratory (MATLAB), a powerful computer programming language with an active community of users engaged in many branches of science and engineering. Among its many attractive features, MATLAB offers high-level commands for performing calculations with large as well as small data sets and for generating publication-quality graphics. Throughout the text, Rosenbaum presents each new principle with one or more illustrations of usable code. In addition, each chapter begins with suggestions regarding which actions to perform, followed by the commands required to do so. The book easily functions as a reference source so that readers can turn to a section of interest and quickly obtain the information desired. An accompanying Web site lists programs and code output, complete with color, motion, and sound. This textbook will grant behavioral scientists the intellectual freedom to perform virtually any computational function in solving problems, and consequently may allow practitioners to think, write, and speak more clearly.


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Human motor control
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ISBN: 9780123742261 0123742269 1282285513 9781282285514 9786612285516 6612285516 0080921221 9780080921228 Year: 2010 Publisher: Burlington, MA : Academic Press,

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Motor control is a complex process that involves the brain, muscles, limbs & often external objects. It underlies motion, balance, stability, coordination & our interaction with others & technology. This book provides an introduction, encompassing the psychological, physiological & computational approaches to motor control.

Timing of behavior : neural, psychological, and computational perspectives
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ISBN: 0262181886 0262282569 0585078262 9780262282567 9780585078267 9780262181884 Year: 1998 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press,

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This volume presents cutting-edge research on the production, perception, and memory of timed events.

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612.8 --- Movement, Psychology of --- Neuropsychology --- Perceptual-motor processes --- Sensory-motor processes --- Perception --- Neurophysiology --- Psychophysiology --- Motor psychology --- Motion --- Motion study --- Movement education --- Muscular sense --- Zenuwstelsel. Zintuigen. Motorische neurowetenschappen --- Movement, Psychology of. --- Neuropsychology. --- Perceptual-motor processes. --- Experimentele psychologie --- handboeken en inleidingen --- Movement. --- Psychomotor Performance. --- Time Factors. --- Musculoskeletal Physiological Phenomena --- Nervous System Physiological Phenomena --- Time --- Musculoskeletal Physiological Processes --- Psychological Phenomena and Processes --- Physiological Processes --- Physiological Phenomena --- Musculoskeletal and Neural Physiological Phenomena --- Physiology --- Psychiatry and Psychology --- Physical Phenomena --- Behavioral Sciences --- Behavioral Disciplines and Activities --- Phenomena and Processes --- Biological Science Disciplines --- Natural Science Disciplines --- Disciplines and Occupations --- Time Factors --- Psychomotor Performance --- Movement --- Social Sciences --- Psychology --- handboeken en inleidingen. --- Movements --- Neuropsychologies --- Perceptual Motor Performance --- Sensory Motor Performance --- Visual Motor Coordination --- Coordination, Visual Motor --- Coordinations, Visual Motor --- Motor Coordination, Visual --- Motor Coordinations, Visual --- Motor Performance, Perceptual --- Motor Performance, Sensory --- Motor Performances, Perceptual --- Motor Performances, Sensory --- Perceptual Motor Performances --- Performance, Perceptual Motor --- Performance, Psychomotor --- Performance, Sensory Motor --- Performances, Perceptual Motor --- Performances, Psychomotor --- Performances, Sensory Motor --- Psychomotor Performances --- Sensory Motor Performances --- Visual Motor Coordinations --- Factor, Time --- Factors, Time --- Time Factor --- Psychologic Processes and Principles --- Musculoskeletal Physiologic Process --- Musculoskeletal Physiological Concepts --- Musculoskeletal Physiological Phenomenon --- Physiology, Musculoskeletal --- Musculoskeletal Physiologic Processes --- Musculoskeletal Physiological Process --- Musculoskeletal Physiology --- Concept, 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(Physiology) --- Relationships, Mind-Body (Physiology) --- Effects, Long-Term --- Effects, Longterm --- Long-Term Effects --- Longterm Effects --- Effect, Long-Term --- Effect, Longterm --- Effects, Long Term --- Long Term Effects --- Long-Term Effect --- Longterm Effect --- Nervous System Physiological Concepts --- Nervous System Physiological Phenomenon --- Nervous System Physiological Process --- Physiology, Nervous System --- Nervous System Physiologic Processes --- Nervous System Physiological Processes --- Nervous System Physiology --- System Physiology, Nervous --- Nervous System --- Natural Sciences --- Physical Sciences --- Discipline, Natural Science --- Disciplines, Natural Science --- Natural Science --- Natural Science Discipline --- Physical Science --- Science, Natural --- Science, Physical --- Sciences, Natural --- Sciences, Physical --- Biologic Sciences --- Biological Science --- Science, Biological --- Sciences, Biological --- Biological Sciences --- Life Sciences 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MATLAB for behavioral scientists
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ISBN: 9780415535946 9780415535915 0415535913 0415535948 9780203112106 9781136281037 9781136281075 Year: 2015 Publisher: New York : Taylor & Francis Group,

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"Written specifically for those with no prior programming experience and minimal quantitative training, this accessible text walks behavioral science students and researchers through the process of programming using MATLAB. The book explores examples, terms, and programming needs relevant to those in the behavioral sciences and helps readers perform virtually any computational function in solving their research problems. Principles are illustrated with usable code. Each chapter opens with a list of objectives followed by new commands required to accomplish those goals. These objectives also serve as a reference to help readers easily relocate a section of interest. Sample code and output and chapter problems demonstrate how to write a program and explore a model so readers can see the results obtained using different equations and values. A web site provides solutions to selected problems and the book's program code output and examples so readers can manipulate them as needed. The outputs on the website have color, motion, and sound. Highlights of the new edition include: Updated to reflect changes in the most recent version of MATLAB, including special tricks and new functions. More information on debugging and common errors and more basic problems in the rudiments of MATLAB to help novice users get up and running more quickly. A new chapter on Psychtoolbox, a suite of programs specifically geared to behavioral science research. A new chapter on Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) for user-friendly communication. Increased emphasis on pre-allocation of memory, recursion, handles, and linear algebra operators"--

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