The Mentalities of Gorillas and Orangutans: Comparative Perspectives

Study at the psychological skills of chimpanzees and bonobos has been extensively 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 aid whole the image of hominoid cognition via bringing jointly the paintings on gorillas and orangutans and surroundings 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 large breadth and intensity of study underway within the box of neural networks. even though the slant of the summer time tuition has consistently leaned towards cognitive technology and synthetic intelligence, the various clinical backgrounds and learn pursuits of authorised scholars and invited school mirror the huge spectrum of components contributing to neural networks, together with synthetic intelligence, cognitive technological know-how, computing device technological know-how, engineering, arithmetic, neuroscience, and physics.

Music therapy in mental health for illness management and recovery

Many track therapists paintings in grownup psychological well-being settings after qualifying. for lots of, it will likely be a hard or even daunting prospect. but before, there was no psychiatric track remedy textual content offering suggestion 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 tune remedy can successfully and successfully functionality inside a medical situation.

The Oxford Compendium of Visual Illusions

Visible illusions minimize throughout educational divides and renowned pursuits: at the one hand, illusions supply leisure as curious methods of the attention; however, medical examine regarding illusory phenomena has given generations of scientists and artists deep insights into the mind and ideas of brain and recognition.