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Key Insights into Basic Mechanisms of Mental Activity

A more nuanced perspective on cognition, behavior, personality, and pathology. Mind/brain. It is explained that mental activity is not possible without concepts/memory structures that exist in the brain and result from perceptual learning. Core mental activities including thinking, reasoning, and ju...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Buxbaum, Otto (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
Edición:1st ed. 2016.
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction to the study of the mind, mental activity and behavior
  • The S-O-R model
  • Mental processes are neuro-mental processes
  • Judgments are processes of feature comparison: experimental evidence
  • Generalization of the process of feature comparison: set theory, neural systems
  • Conclusions on determinants of behavior and implications for psychiatry, clinical psychology and psychotherapy.