Ismael Eduardo Apud Peláez, "Ayahuasca: Between Cognition and Culture: Perspectives from an interdisciplinary and reflexive ethnography"
English | 2020 | pages: 294 | ISBN: 8484248348 | PDF | 7,0 mb
This book summarizes Ismael Apud's ethnographic research in the field of ayahuasca, conducted in Latin America and Catalonia over a period of 10 years. To analyze the variety of ayahuasca spiritual practices and beliefs, the author combines different approaches, including medical anthropology, cognitive science of religion, history of science, and religious studies. Ismael Apud is a psychologist and anthropologist from Uruguay, with a PhD in Anthropology at Universitat Rovira i Virgili.

Language, Expressivity and Cognition
by Deckert, Mikolaj;Pezik, Piotr;Zago, Raffaele;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1350332860 | 257 pages | True PDF EPUB | 18.98 MB

Bilingual Cognition and Language: The state of the science across its subfields By David Miller (editor), Fatih Bayram (editor), Jason Rothman (editor), Ludovica Serratrice (editor)
2018 | 409 Pages | ISBN: 9027200157 | PDF | 7 MB
This collection brings together leading names in the field of bilingualism research to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Studies in Bilingualism series. Over the last 25 years the study of bilingualism has received a tremendous amount of attention from linguists, psychologists, cognitive scientists, and neuroscientists. The breadth of coverage in this volume is a testament to the many different aspects of bilingualism that continue to generate phenomenal interest in the scholarly community. The bilingual experience is captured through a multifaceted prism that includes aspects of language and literacy development in child bilinguals with and without developmental language disorders, language processing and mental representations in adult bilinguals across the lifespan, and the cognitive and neurological basis of bilingualism. Different theoretical approaches - from generative UG-based models to constructivist usage-based models - are brought to bear on the nature of bilingual linguistic knowledge. The end result is a compendium of the state-of-the-art of a field that is in constant evolution and that is on an upward trajectory of discovery.

The Animal Mind: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Animal Cognition By Kristin Andrews
2020 | 320 Pages | ISBN: 1138559563 | PDF | 7 MB
The philosophy of animal minds addresses profound questions about the nature of mind and the relationships between humans and other animals.In this fully revised and updated introductory text, Kristin Andrews introduces and assesses the essential topics, problems, and debates as they cut across animal cognition and philosophy of mind, citing historical and cutting-edge empirical data and case studies throughout.The second edition includes a new chapter on animal culture. There are also new sections on the evolution of consciousness and tool use in animals, as well as substantially revised sections on mental representation, belief, communication, theory of mind, animal ethics, and moral psychology.Further features such as chapter summaries, annotated further reading, and a glossary make The Animal Mind an indispensable introduction to those teaching philosophy of mind, philosophy of animal minds or animal cognition. It will also be an excellent resource for those in fields such as ethology, biology, and psychology.

Miguel A. Sepúlveda-Pedro, "Enactive Cognition in Place: Sense-Making as the Development of Ecological Norms "
English | ISBN: 3031202813 | 2023 | 236 pages | PDF | 4 MB
This book aims to enrich our understanding of the role the environment plays in processes of life and cognition, from the perspective of enactive cognitive science. Miguel A. Sepúlveda-Pedro offers an unprecedented interpretation of the central claims of the enactive approach to cognition, supported by contemporary works of ecological psychology and phenomenology. The enactive approach conceives cognition as sense-making, a phenomenon emerging from the organizational nature of the living body that evolves in human beings through sensorimotor, intercorporeal, and linguistic interactions with the environment. From this standpoint, Sepúlveda-Pedro suggests incorporating three new theses into the theoretical body of the enactive approach: sense-making and cognition fundamentally consist of processes of norm development; the environment, cognitive agents actually interact with, is an active ecological field enacted in their historical past; and sense-making occurs in a domain consisting of multiple normative dimensions that the author names enactive place.

Knowledge in Change: The Semiotics of Cognition and Conversion
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031230000 | 367 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 3.2 MB
All knowledge is always a matter of change, as this book underlines. All knowledge links You and Me to Reality. This process of positioning cognition has become heavily influenced by conversion. Its cultural background is in this book named 'the New Plural': a worldview based on combinations of Analog, Digital, AI and Quantum understandings of reality.

Design Computing and Cognition'22 by John S Gero
English | PDF,EPUB | 2023 | 819 Pages | ISBN : 3031204174 | 134.9 MB
This book reports research and development that represent the state of the art in artificial intelligence in design, design cognition, design neurocognition, and design theories from the Tenth International Conference on Design Computing and Cognition held in Glasgow, UK, in 2022. The 48 chapters are grouped under the headings of natural language processing and design; design cognition; design neurocognition; learning and design; creative design and co-design; shape grammars; quantum computing; and human behavior. These contributions are of particular interest to design researchers and design educators, as well as to users of advanced computation and cognitive science. This book contains knowledge about the cognitive and neurocognitive behavior of designers, which is valuable to those who need to gain a better understanding of designing.

The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Implicit Cognition
by J. Robert Thompson
English | 2022 | ISBN: 0367857189 | 438 pages | True PDF | 46.37 MB

Philosophy of Social Cognition
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031144902 | 225 Pages | PDF (True) | 5 MB
This introductory textbook provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the main issues in contemporary philosophy of social cognition. It explains and critically discusses each of the key philosophical answers to the captivating question of how we understand the mental life of other sentient creatures.

John Dunlosky, "The Cambridge Handbook of Cognition and Education "
English | ISBN: 1108401309 | 2019 | 748 pages | PDF | 13 MB
This Handbook reviews a wealth of research in cognitive and educational psychology that investigates how to enhance learning and instruction to aid students struggling to learn and to advise teachers on how best to support student learning. The Handbook includes features that inform readers about how to improve instruction and student achievement based on scientific evidence across different domains, including science, mathematics, reading and writing. Each chapter supplies a description of the learning goal, a balanced presentation of the current evidence about the efficacy of various approaches to obtaining that learning goal, and a discussion of important future directions for research in this area. It is the ideal resource for researchers continuing their study of this field or for those only now beginning to explore how to improve student achievement.