Harmony, perspective and triadic cognition /

The big question in the science of psychology is: Why is human cognition and behavior so different from the capabilities of every other animal species on Earth - including our close genetic relations, the chimpanzees? This book provides a coherent answer by examining those aspects of the human brain...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cook, Norman D.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Temas:
Cognitive psychology.
Consciousness.
Cognitive therapy.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Consciousness
Psychologie cognitive.
Conscience.
Thérapie cognitive.
PSYCHOLOGY > Cognitive Psychology.
SCIENCE > Cognitive Science.
Bewusstsein
Evolution
Hirnfunktion
Hominisation
Kognition
Kognitive Psychologie
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Machine generated contents note 1. Introduction
  • 1.1. The Basic Question
  • 1.2. Triadic Perception, Triadic Cognition and Triadic Social Interaction
  • 1.3. Triads versus Dyads
  • 1.4. Musical Harmony
  • 1.5. Pictorial Depth Perception
  • 1.6. Tool Use
  • 1.7. Language
  • 1.8. Consciousness
  • 1.9. Other Issues
  • 2. Human Hearing: Harmony
  • 2.1. Tonality and Dissonance
  • 2.2. Tension and Instability
  • 2.3. The Modality of Triads
  • 2.4. The Affective Valence of Major and Minor
  • 2.5. Traditional Harmony Theory
  • 2.6. This Is Your Brain on Harmony
  • 2.7. Why Not Before?
  • 2.8. Conclusions
  • 3. Human Seeing: Perspective
  • 3.1. Stereoscopic Vision: Two Static Points of View
  • 3.2. Motion Parallax: Two Sequential Points of View
  • 3.3. Pictorial Depth Perception
  • 3.4. Linear Perspective
  • 3.5. Shadows and Shading
  • 3.6. Historical Perspective on Shadows
  • 3.7. A Reclassification of Depth Cues
  • 3.8. "Perspective as Symbolic Form"
  • 3.9. Variations on the Illusion of Depth
  • 3.10. This Is Your Brain on Reverse Perspective
  • 3.11. Conclusions
  • 4. Human Work: Tools and Handedness
  • 4.1. Stones as Tools
  • 4.2. Toolmaking and Handedness
  • 4.3. The Division of Labor Between the Cerebral Hemispheres
  • 4.4. Brain Size
  • 4.5. Trimodal Cortical Regions
  • 4.6. Hafted Tools
  • 4.7. The Behavioral Neurology of Tool Use
  • 4.8. Conditional Associations
  • 4.9. Causality
  • 4.10. Conclusions
  • 5. Human Communication: Language
  • 5.1. The Tripartite Architecture of Language
  • 5.2. Behavioral Neurology
  • 5.3. The Evolution of Language
  • 5.4. Subjects, Objects, Verbs
  • 5.5. Universal Grammar
  • 5.6. Conclusions
  • 6. Consciousness
  • 6.1. The Main Question
  • 6.2. Three Levels of Discussion
  • 6.3. Five Approaches to Subjectivity
  • 6.4. The Neurophysiological Solution
  • 6.5. Implications
  • 6.6. Consciousness Is Understood, Self-Consciousness Is Not
  • 6.7. Conclusions
  • 7. Other Human Talents
  • 7.1. Rhythm Perception
  • 7.2. Face Perception
  • 7.3. Joint Attention
  • 7.4. Moral Minds
  • 7.5. Intelligent Neural Networks
  • 7.6. Color Perception
  • 7.7. Mental Rotation
  • 7.8. Subitizing
  • 7.9. Four-Body Cognition?
  • 7.10. Trigonometry
  • 8. Conclusion.

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