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Atmanspacher, Harald |
From Chemistry to Consciousness |
I10367 |
2016 |
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Primas, Hans |
Knowledge and Time |
I10262 |
2017 |
eBook |
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Frank, Till |
Determinism and Self-Organization of Human Perception and Performance |
I09082 |
2019 |
eBook |
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Papadimitriou, Fivos |
Spatial Complexity |
I09027 |
2020 |
eBook |
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Lubashevsky, Ihor |
Physics of the Human Mind |
I08732 |
2017 |
eBook |
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| 6 |
Binder, P.-M |
The Language Phenomenon |
I08332 |
2013 |
eBook |
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Frey, Ulrich J |
Homo Novus - A Human Without Illusions |
I08314 |
2010 |
eBook |
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Nowak, Andrzej |
Complex Human Dynamics |
I08169 |
2013 |
eBook |
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Frey, Ulrich J |
Essential Building Blocks of Human Nature |
I05673 |
2011 |
eBook |
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Michelson, Larry |
Social Skills Assessment and Training with Children |
I03280 |
1983 |
eBook |
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| Title | From Chemistry to Consciousness : The Legacy of Hans Primas |
| Author(s) | Atmanspacher, Harald;M??ller-Herold, Ulrich |
| Publication | Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2016. |
| Description | XII, 154 p. 26 illus., 11 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This book reflects on the significant and highly original scientific contributions of Hans Primas. A professor of chemistry at ETH Zurich from 1962 to 1995, Primas continued his research activities until his death in 2014. Over these 50 years and more, he worked on the foundations of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, contributed to a number of significant issues in theoretical chemistry, helped to clarify central topics in quantum theory and the philosophy of physics, suggested innovative ways of addressing interlevel relations in the philosophy of science, and introduced cutting-edge approaches in the flourishing young field of scientific studies of consciousness. His work in these areas of research and its continuing impact is described by noted experts, colleagues, and collaborators of Primas. All authors contextualize their contributions to facilitate the mutual dialog between these fields |
| ISBN,Price | 9783319435732 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Chemistry, Physical and theoretical
2. Cognitive psychology
3. EBOOK
4. EBOOK - SPRINGER
5. History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
6. NUCLEAR CHEMISTRY
7. PHYSICS
8. QUANTUM PHYSICS
9. Theoretical and Computational Chemistry
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| Title | Knowledge and Time |
| Author(s) | Primas, Hans;Atmanspacher, Harald |
| Publication | Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2017. |
| Description | XV, 427 p. 38 illus., 10 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This is a unique volume by a unique scientist, which combines conceptual, formal, and engineering approaches in a way that is rarely seen. Its core is the relation between ways of learning and knowing on the one hand and different modes of time on the other. Partial Boolean logic and the associated notion of complementarity are used to express this relation, and mathematical tools of fundamental physics are used to formalize it. Along the way many central philosophical problems are touched and addressed, above all the mind-body problem. Completed only shortly before the death of the author, the text has been edited and annotated by the author's close collaborator Harald Atmanspacher |
| ISBN,Price | 9783319473703 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Cognitive psychology
2. EBOOK
3. EBOOK - SPRINGER
4. EPISTEMOLOGY
5. History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
6. Philosophy and science
7. PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
8. PHYSICS
9. PROBABILITIES
10. Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes
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| Title | Determinism and Self-Organization of Human Perception and Performance |
| Author(s) | Frank, Till |
| Publication | Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2019. |
| Description | XX, 524 p. 158 illus : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This book discusses human perception and performance within the framework of the theory of self-organizing systems. To that end, it presents a variety of phenomena and experimental findings in the research field, and provides an introduction to the theory of self-organization, with a focus on amplitude equations, order parameter and Lotka-Volterra equations. The book demonstrates that relating the experimental findings to the mathematical models provides an explicit account for the causal nature of human perception and performance. In particular, the notion of determinism versus free will is discussed in this context. The book is divided into four main parts, the first of which discusses the relationship between the concept of determinism and the fundamental laws of physics. The second part provides an introduction to using the self-organization approach from physics to understand human perception and performance, a strategy used throughout the remainder of the book to connect experimental findings and mathematical models. In turn, the third part of the book focuses on investigating performance guided by perception: climbing stairs and grasping tools are presented in detail. Perceptually relevant bifurcation parameters in the mathematical models are also identified, e.g. in the context of walk-to-run gait transitions. Chains of perceptions and actions together with their underlying mechanisms are then presented, and a number of experimental phenomena ??? such as selective attention, priming, child play, bistable perception, retrieval-induced forgetting, functional fixedness and memory effects exhibiting hysteresis with positive or negative sign ??? are discussed. Human judgment making, internal experiences such as dreaming and thinking, and Freud???s concept of consciousness are also addressed. The fourth and last part of the book explores several specific topics such as learning, social interactions between two people, life trajectories, and applications in clinical psychology. In particular, episodes of mania and depression under bipolar disorder, perception under schizophrenia, and obsessive-compulsive rituals are discussed. This book is intended for researchers and graduate students in psychology, physics, applied mathematics, kinesiology, and the sport sciences who want to learn about the foundations of the field. Written for a mixed audience, the experiments and concepts are presented using non-technical language throughout. In addition, each chapter includes more advanced sections for modelers in the fields of physics and applied mathematics |
| ISBN,Price | 9783030288211 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Applications of Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos Theory
2. Cognitive psychology
3. COMPLEX SYSTEMS
4. EBOOK
5. EBOOK - SPRINGER
6. Sport Science
7. Sports sciences
8. STATISTICAL PHYSICS
9. SYSTEM THEORY
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| Title | Spatial Complexity : Theory, Mathematical Methods and Applications |
| Author(s) | Papadimitriou, Fivos |
| Publication | Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2020. |
| Description | XXI, 298 p. 178 illus., 149 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This book delivers stimulating input for a broad range of researchers, from geographers and ecologists to psychologists interested in spatial perception and physicists researching in complex systems. How can one decide whether one surface or spatial object is more complex than another? What does it require to measure the spatial complexity of small maps, and why does this matter for nature, science and technology? Drawing from algorithmics, geometry, topology, probability and informatics, and with examples from everyday life, the reader is invited to cross the borders into the bewildering realm of spatial complexity, as it emerges from the study of geographic maps, landscapes, surfaces, knots, 3D and 4D objects. The mathematical and cartographic experiments described in this book lead to hypotheses and enigmas with ramifications in aesthetics and epistemology. |
| ISBN,Price | 9783030596712 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. BIODIVERSITY
2. Cognitive psychology
3. COMPLEX SYSTEMS
4. EBOOK
5. EBOOK - SPRINGER
6. GEOGRAPHY
7. Geography, general
8. SYSTEM THEORY
9. TOPOLOGY
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| I09027 |
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| Title | Physics of the Human Mind |
| Author(s) | Lubashevsky, Ihor |
| Publication | Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2017. |
| Description | XIV, 380 p. 83 illus., 41 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This book tackles the challenging question which mathematical formalisms and possibly new physical notions should be developed for quantitatively describing human cognition and behavior, in addition to the ones already developed in the physical and cognitive sciences. Indeed, physics is widely used in modeling social systems, where, in particular, new branches of science such as sociophysics and econophysics have arisen. However, many if not most characteristic features of humans like willingness, emotions, memory, future prediction, and moral norms, to name but a few, are not yet properly reflected in the paradigms of physical thought and theory. The choice of a relevant formalism for modeling mental phenomena requires the comprehension of the general philosophical questions related to the mind-body problem. Plausible answers to these questions are investigated and reviewed, notions and concepts to be used or to be taken into account are developed and some challenging questions are posed as open problems. This text addresses theoretical physicists and neuroscientists modeling any systems and processes where human factors play a crucial role, philosophers interested in applying philosophical concepts to the construction of mathematical models, and the mathematically oriented psychologists and sociologists, whose research is fundamentally related to modeling mental processes |
| ISBN,Price | 9783319517063 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Cognitive psychology
2. Data-driven Science, Modeling and Theory Building
3. EBOOK
4. EBOOK - SPRINGER
5. ECONOPHYSICS
6. Mathematical Methods in Physics
7. Mathematical Models of Cognitive Processes and Neural Networks
8. Neural networks (Computer science)??
9. PHILOSOPHY OF MIND
10. PHYSICS
11. Sociophysics
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| Title | The Language Phenomenon : Human Communication from Milliseconds to Millennia |
| Author(s) | Binder, P.-M;Smith, K |
| Publication | Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2013. |
| Description | VIII, 251 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This volume contains a contemporary, integrated description of the processes of language. These range from fast scales (fractions of a second) to slow ones (over a million years). The contributors, all experts in their fields, address language in the brain, production of sentences and dialogues, language learning, transmission and evolutionary processes that happen over centuries or millenia, the relation between language and genes, the origins of language, self-organization, and language competition and death. The book as a whole will help to show how processes at different scales affect each other, thus presenting language as a dynamic, complex and profoundly human phenomenon |
| ISBN,Price | 9783642360862 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
2. Cognitive psychology
3. COMPLEX SYSTEMS
4. DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS
5. EBOOK
6. EBOOK - SPRINGER
7. Evolutionary Biology
8. Information and Communication, Circuits
9. INFORMATION THEORY
10. LINGUISTICS
11. STATISTICAL PHYSICS
12. Theoretical Linguistics
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| I08332 |
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| Title | Homo Novus - A Human Without Illusions |
| Author(s) | Frey, Ulrich J;St??rmer, Charlotte;Willf??hr, Kai P |
| Publication | Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010. |
| Description | XIV, 291 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | Converging evidence from disciplines including sociobiology, evolutionary psychology and human biology forces us to adopt a new idea of what it means to be a human. As cherished concepts such as free will, na??ve realism, humans as creation's crowning glory fall and our moral roots in ape group dynamics become clearer, we have to take leave of many concepts that have been central to defining our humanness. What emerges is a new human, the homo novus, a human being without illusions. Leading authors from many different fields explore these issues by addressing these illusions and providing evidence for the need to switch to this new idea of man, in spite of understandable reluctance to let go of our most beloved illusions |
| ISBN,Price | 9783642121425 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. ANTHROPOLOGY
2. Cognitive psychology
3. EBOOK
4. EBOOK - SPRINGER
5. EPISTEMOLOGY
6. Evolutionary Biology
7. Popular Science in Psychology
8. PSYCHOLOGY
9. Sociology
10. Sociology, general
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| I08314 |
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| Title | Complex Human Dynamics : From Mind to Societies |
| Author(s) | Nowak, Andrzej;Winkowska-Nowak, Katarzyna;Br??e, David |
| Publication | Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2013. |
| Description | X, 242 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This book, edited and authored by a closely collaborating network of social scientists and psychologists, recasts typical research topics in these fields into the language of nonlinear, dynamic and complex systems. The aim is to provide scientists with different backgrounds - physics, applied mathematics and computer sciences - with the opportunity to apply the tools of their trade to an altogether new range of possible applications. At the same time, this book will serve as a first reference for a new generation of social scientists and psychologists wishing to familiarize themselves with the new methodology and the "thinking in complexity" |
| ISBN,Price | 9783642314360 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Cognitive psychology
2. COMPLEXITY
3. COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY
4. Data-driven Science, Modeling and Theory Building
5. EBOOK
6. EBOOK - SPRINGER
7. ECONOPHYSICS
8. Methodology of the Social Sciences
9. SOCIAL SCIENCES
10. Sociophysics
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| I08169 |
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| Title | Essential Building Blocks of Human Nature |
| Author(s) | Frey, Ulrich J;St??rmer, Charlotte;Willf??hr, Kai P |
| Publication | Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011. |
| Description | XIV, 159 p. 67 illus., 11 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | To understand why we humans are as we are, it is necessary to look at the essential building blocks that??comprise our nature. The foundations of this structure??are??our evolutionary origins as primates and our social roots. Upon these rest features such as our??emotions, language and aesthetic preferences, with our??self-perceptions, self-deceptions and thirst for knowledge right at the top. The unifying force holding these blocks together is evolutionary theory. Evolution provides a deeper understanding of??human nature and, in particular,??of the??common roots of these different perspectives. To build a reliable and coherent model of man, leading authors from fields as diverse as primatology, anthropology, neurobiology and philosophy have joined forces to present essays?? each describing their own expert perspective. Together they provide a convincing and complete picture of our own human??nature |
| ISBN,Price | 9783642139680 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Cognitive psychology
2. EBOOK
3. EBOOK - SPRINGER
4. EPISTEMOLOGY
5. Evolutionary Biology
6. Popular Science in Psychology
7. PSYCHOLOGY
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| Title | Social Skills Assessment and Training with Children : An Empirically Based Handbook |
| Author(s) | Michelson, Larry;Sugai, Don P;Wood, Randy P;Kazdin, Alan E |
| Publication | New York, NY, Springer US, 1983. |
| Description | XIV, 268 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | The purpose of this book is to provide readers with sufficient knowledge regard?? ing social skills assessment and training with children so that they can imple?? ment and evaluate social skills programs on their own. Increased interest in promoting children's social skills has stemmed in part from advances in research that have shown the importance of childhood social competency for adjustment in both childhood and adulthood. There is a growing need for assessment and training methods that can be utilized by diverse groups of professionals and paraprofessionals. This book is intended for mental health workers, teachers, educators, clinicians, and child-care personnel. The book thoroughly reviews the literature to acquaint readers with relevant findings on social skills and to pro?? vide discussion regarding contemporary issues and assessment techniques. Sub?? sequently, comprehensive procedures in the training of children's social skills are presented. Readers are also provided with 16 detailed training modules, each of which comprises a rationale, instructions, Scripts, and homework assign?? ments. These modules are designed to permit effective implementation of social skills training programs. Moreover, they provide a structured and program?? matically designed format that builds in clinical flexibility for their use with individual children or groups of children. These modules are followed by a clinical-issues section designed to address potential obstacles to effective training. Following these major sections, two appendixes have been included in the book. The first appendix is a step-by-step description of how to conduct an assessment |
| ISBN,Price | 9781489903488 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Clinical psychology
2. Cognitive psychology
3. EBOOK
4. EBOOK - SPRINGER
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