The Mentalities of Gorillas and Orangutans: Comparative Perspectives

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

Proceedings of the 1993 Connectionist Models Summer School

The results of the 1993 Connectionist versions summer season tuition, the papers during this quantity exemplify the super breadth and intensity of study underway within the box of neural networks. even if the slant of the summer time tuition has continually leaned towards cognitive technological know-how and synthetic intelligence, the varied clinical backgrounds and study pursuits of permitted scholars and invited school replicate the huge spectrum of components contributing to neural networks, together with man made 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 healthiness settings after qualifying. for plenty of, it is going to be a demanding or even daunting prospect. but earlier, there was no psychiatric song treatment textual content offering suggestion on affliction administration and restoration. This crucial ebook fills the space within the literature, delivering the mandatory breadth and intensity to notify readers of the psychotherapeutic examine base and express how track remedy 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 offer leisure as curious methods of the attention; nevertheless, medical examine on the topic of illusory phenomena has given generations of scientists and artists deep insights into the mind and ideas of brain and realization.