The Mentalities of Gorillas and Orangutans: Comparative Perspectives

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

Proceedings of the 1993 Connectionist Models Summer School

The results of the 1993 Connectionist versions summer time tuition, the papers during this quantity exemplify the large breadth and intensity of study underway within the box of neural networks. even supposing the slant of the summer season institution has consistently leaned towards cognitive technology and synthetic intelligence, the varied medical backgrounds and learn pursuits of approved scholars and invited college replicate the extensive spectrum of components contributing to neural networks, together with man made intelligence, cognitive technology, laptop technology, engineering, arithmetic, neuroscience, and physics.

Music therapy in mental health for illness management and recovery

Many track therapists paintings in grownup psychological healthiness settings after qualifying. for plenty of, it will likely be a tough or even daunting prospect. but before, there was no psychiatric song treatment textual content delivering recommendation on affliction administration and restoration. This crucial publication fills the distance within the literature, supplying the mandatory breadth and intensity to notify readers of the psychotherapeutic examine base and express how song treatment can successfully and successfully functionality inside a medical situation.

The Oxford Compendium of Visual Illusions

Visible illusions reduce throughout educational divides and renowned pursuits: at the one hand, illusions supply leisure as curious tips of the attention; however, medical study with regards to illusory phenomena has given generations of scientists and artists deep insights into the mind and ideas of brain and recognition.