The Mentalities of Gorillas and Orangutans: Comparative Perspectives

Examine at the psychological skills of chimpanzees and bonobos has been extensively celebrated and utilized in reconstructions of human evolution. by contrast, much less awareness has been paid to the skills of gorillas and orangutans. This 1999 quantity goals to assist whole the image of hominoid cognition via 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 great breadth and intensity of study underway within the box of neural networks. even though the slant of the summer season tuition has continuously leaned towards cognitive technological know-how and synthetic intelligence, the various medical backgrounds and study pursuits of approved scholars and invited school mirror the wide spectrum of components contributing to neural networks, together with synthetic intelligence, cognitive technological know-how, laptop 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 wellbeing and fitness settings after qualifying. for lots of, it will likely be a difficult or even daunting prospect. but earlier, there was no psychiatric tune treatment textual content delivering recommendation on affliction administration and restoration. This crucial booklet fills the space within the literature, delivering the required breadth and intensity to notify readers of the psychotherapeutic examine base and convey how song treatment can successfully and successfully functionality inside a medical state of affairs.

The Oxford Compendium of Visual Illusions

Visible illusions reduce throughout educational divides and well known pursuits: at the one hand, illusions supply leisure as curious methods of the attention; nevertheless, clinical learn on the topic of illusory phenomena has given generations of scientists and artists deep insights into the mind and rules of brain and recognition.