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  • Inferences during Reading

    Edited by Edward J. O'Brien, Anne E. Cook, Robert F. Lorch, Jr ...
    Inferencing is defined as 'the act of deriving logical conclusions from premises known or assumed to be true', and it is one of the most important processes necessary for successful comprehension during reading. This volume features contributions by distinguished researchers in cognitive psychology, educational psychology, and neuroscience on topics central to our understanding of the inferential ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD

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    Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain

    by Antonio Damasio ...
    **"An ambitious and meticulous foray into the nature of being." -- The Boston GlobeA landmark exploration of the relationship between emotion and reason**Since Descartes famously proclaimed, "I think, therefore I am," science has often overlooked emotions as the source of a person’s true being. Even modern neuroscience has tended, until recently, to concentrate on the cognitive aspects of brain ... Read more

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  • A General Theory of Love

    by Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini, Richard Lannon ...
    This original and lucid account of the complexities of love and its essential role in human well-being draws on the latest scientific research. Three eminent psychiatrists tackle the difficult task of reconciling what artists and thinkers have known for thousands of years about the human heart with what has only recently been learned about the primitive functions of the human brain.A General ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Compass of Pleasure

    How Our Brains Make Fatty Foods, Orgasm, Exercise, Marijuana, Generosity, Vodka,Learning, and Gambling Feel So Good

    by David J. Linden ...
    A leading brain scientist's look at the neurobiology of pleasure-and how pleasures can become addictions.Whether eating, taking drugs, engaging in sex, or doing good deeds, the pursuit of pleasure is a central drive of the human animal. In The Compass of Pleasure Johns Hopkins neuroscientist David J. Linden explains how pleasure affects us at the most fundamental level: in our brain.As he did in ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • That's Disgusting

    Unraveling the Mysteries of Repulsion

    by Rachel Herz, PhD ...
    "A lively look at all things revolting." —New York Times Book ReviewWhy do we watch horror movies? What is the best way to persuade someone to quit smoking? And what on earth is the appeal of competitive eating? In this lively, colorful book, Rachel Herz answers these questions and more, shedding light on an incredible range of human traits—from food preferences and sexual attraction to moral ... Read more

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  • Exuberance

    The Passion for Life

    by Kay Redfield Jamison ...
    A national bestselling author examines one of the mind's most exalted states—one that is crucially important to learning, risk-taking, social cohesiveness, and survival itself.“[Jamison is] that rare writer who can offer a kind of unified field theory of science and art.” —The Washington Post Book WorldWith the same grace and breadth of learning she brought to her studies of the mind’s pathologies ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • Affective Neuroscience : The Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions

    The Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions

    by Jaak Panksepp ...
    Series series Series in Affective Science
    Some investigators have argued that emotions especially animal emotions are illusory concepts outside the realm of scientific inquiry. However with advances in neurobiology and neuroscience researchers are demonstrating that this position is wrong as they move closer to a lasting understanding of the biology and psychology of emotion. In Affective Neuroscience Jaak Panksepp provides the most up-to ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

  • Joy, Guilt, Anger, Love

    What Neuroscience Can--and Can't--Tell Us About How We Feel

    by Giovanni Frazzetto ...
    **“Neuroscientist Giovanni Frazzetto enters the restless realm of human emotion through the portals of physiology, genetics, history, art and philosophy. Anger, guilt, anxiety, grief, empathy, joy and love are anatomized in turn, enlivened with research on everything from the role of monoamine oxidase A in anger to the engagement of opioid receptors as we thrill to music. And who knew that ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • The New Psychology of Language

    Cognitive and Functional Approaches To Language Structure, Volume II

    Edited by Michael Tomasello ...
    From the point of view of psychology and cognitive science, much of modern linguistics is too formal and mathematical to be of much use. The newly emerging approaches to language termed, "Functional and Cognitive Linguistics," however, are much less formally oriented. Instead, functional and cognitive approaches to language structure are typically couched in terms already familiar to cognitive ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

  • Understanding Reading

    A Psycholinguistic Analysis of Reading and Learning to Read, Sixth Edition

    by Frank Smith ...
    Series series Routledge Education Classic Edition
    Understanding Reading revolutionized reading research and theory when the first edition appeared in 1971 and continues to be a leader in the field. In the sixth edition of this classic text Smith’s purpose remains the same: to shed light on fundamental aspects of the complex human act of reading – linguistic, physiological, psychological, and social – and of what is involved in learning to read ... Read more

    $114.99 CAD

  • Tales of Literacy for the 21st Century

    The Literary Agenda

    by Maryanne Wolf ...
    Series series The Literary Agenda
    The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universities. The category of 'the literary' has always been contentious. What is clear, however, is how increasingly it is dismissed or is unrecognised as a way of thinking or an arena for thought. It is ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Access to Language and Cognitive Development

    Edited by Michael Siegal, Luca Surian ...
    One of the most important questions about children's development involves how knowledge acquisition depends on the effect of language experience. To what extent, and in what ways, is a child's cognitive development influenced by their early experience of, and access to, language? Likewise, what are the effects on development of impaired access to language? This book is the first to confront ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD