Category Archives: Cognitive Psychology

Your Brain on Food: How Chemicals Control Your Thoughts and Feelings

Why is eating chocolate so pleasurable? Can the function of just one small group of chemicals really determine whether you are happy or sad? Does marijuana help to improve your memory in old age? Is it really best to drink … Continue reading

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Rigid Flexibility: The Logic of Intelligence (Applied Logic Series)

This book is the most comprehensive description of the decades-long Non-Axiomatic Reasoning System (NARS) project, including its philosophical foundation, methodological consideration, conceptual design details, implications in the related fields, and its similarities and differences to many related works in cognitive … Continue reading

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The Evolving Brain: The Mind and the Neural Control of Behavior

This book presents a series of essays on neuroscientific aspects of human nature and instinctive behavior, individually acquired (learned) behavior, human bipedal locomotion, voluntary movement, and the general problem of how the brain controls behavior. The author argues that concepts … Continue reading

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Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions

Why do our headaches persist after we take a one-cent aspirin but disappear when we take a fifty-cent aspirin? Why do we splurge on a lavish meal but cut coupons to save twenty-five cents on a can of soup? When … Continue reading

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Self Control in Society, Mind, and Brain (Oxford Series in Social Cognition and Social Neuroscience)

How do we – societies and individuals alike – (sometimes) manage to act in line with our high priority goals when faced with tempting-yet-conflicting alternatives? In other words, how do we (sometimes) resolve a conflict between a superordinate, global goal … Continue reading

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The Optimism Advantage: 50 Simple Truths to Transform Your Attitudes and Actions into Results

Sharpen your skills and shape attitudes to achieve high levels of success personally and professionally The Optimism Advantage offers tangible, proven techniques for turning life’s obstacles into opportunities with confidence and competence. Today’s economy offers plenty of reasons to feel … Continue reading

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Free Will and Consciousness: How Might They Work?

This volume is aimed at readers who wish to move beyond debates about the existence of free will and the efficacy of consciousness and closer to appreciating how free will and consciousness might operate. It draws from philosophy and psychology, … Continue reading

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Philosophy of Perception: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy)

The philosophy of perception investigates the nature of our sensory experiences and their relation to reality. Raising questions about the conscious character of perceptual experiences, how they enable us to acquire knowledge of the world in which we live, and … Continue reading

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Rewire Your Brain: Think Your Way to a Better Life

How to rewire your brain to improve virtually every aspect of your life-based on the latest research in neuroscience and psychology on neuroplasticity and evidence-based practices Not long ago, it was thought that the brain you were born with was … Continue reading

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Space-Time Continuous Models of Swarm Robotic Systems: Supporting Global-to-Local Programming (Cognitive Systems Monographs)

In this book, a generic model in as far as possible mathematical closed-formis developed that predicts the behavior of large self-organizing robot groups (robot swarms) based on their control algorithm. In addition, an extensive subsumption of the relatively young and … Continue reading

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