The Mentalities of Gorillas and Orangutans: Comparative Perspectives

Study at the psychological talents of chimpanzees and bonobos has been greatly celebrated and utilized in reconstructions of human evolution. by contrast, much less consciousness has been paid to the skills of gorillas and orangutans. This 1999 quantity goals to assist whole the image of hominoid cognition through bringing jointly the paintings on gorillas and orangutans and atmosphere it in comparative point of view.

Proceedings of the 1993 Connectionist Models Summer School

The results of the 1993 Connectionist types summer time college, the papers during this quantity exemplify the super breadth and intensity of analysis underway within the box of neural networks. even if the slant of the summer season university has constantly leaned towards cognitive technological know-how and synthetic intelligence, the various clinical backgrounds and learn pursuits of authorized scholars and invited college mirror the huge spectrum of components contributing to neural networks, together with synthetic intelligence, cognitive technology, desktop technological know-how, engineering, arithmetic, neuroscience, and physics.

Music therapy in mental health for illness management and recovery

Many tune therapists paintings in grownup psychological well-being settings after qualifying. for plenty of, will probably be a hard or even daunting prospect. but previously, there was no psychiatric tune remedy textual content delivering suggestion on affliction administration and restoration. This crucial booklet fills the distance within the literature, delivering the mandatory breadth and intensity to notify readers of the psychotherapeutic learn base and exhibit how song remedy can successfully and successfully functionality inside a scientific state of affairs.

The Oxford Compendium of Visual Illusions

Visible illusions lower throughout educational divides and well known pursuits: at the one hand, illusions supply leisure as curious tips of the attention; however, clinical examine with regards to illusory phenomena has given generations of scientists and artists deep insights into the mind and ideas of brain and attention.