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Understanding intuition : a journey in and out of science /

Understanding Intuition: A Journey In and Out of Science explores the biological and cognitive mechanisms that account for intuition, and examines the first-person experience. The book integrates both scientific and personal perspectives on this important yet elusive mental capacity. It uses specifi...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Isenman, Lois (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Academic Press, [2018]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Intro; Title page; Table of Contents; Copyright; Dedication; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1. Some Basic Questions; The Scientific Status of Unconscious Intelligence; The Difference Between Ordinary Thought and Intuition; The Relationship Between Scientific and Artistic Intuition; Chapter 2. Implicit Learning; Frequency Learning; Artificial Grammar Learning Experiments; Sequence Learning Experiments; How Implicit Is Implicit Learning?; Exploring the Relationship Between Implicit and Explicit Knowledge; Implicit Learning and the Evaluative Aspect of Intuition.
  • How Important Is Implicit Learning to Breakthrough Intuition?Chapter 3. Intuitive Cognition and Intuition; Intuitive Cognition in Scientific Discovery: It Must Be a �a#x80;#x9C;Molecular Disease�a#x80;#x9D;; Intuitive Cognition in Scientific Verification: The Form as well as the Content of the Data was Striking; Intuition and Brain Laterality; Linear Versus Relational Logic; Cognitive Assumptions Underlying the Two Aspects of Mind; Pattern Recognition, Brain Laterality, and Intuition; Appendix 1; Appendix 2; Chapter 4. The Brain and Perception; Classical Versus Natural View of Intelligence.
  • Artificial Neural NetworksThe Brain as a Nonlinear Dynamic System; Rabbits and Olfactory Perception; Intuition and the Self-organizing Brain; Chapter 5. Emotion and Motivation; Emotions and Evolution; Human Emotional Cues; The Primary Fear Pathway; The Secondary Fear Pathway; Emotion and Decision Making; A Personal Glimpse of the Role of Emotion in Decision Making; The Iowa Gambling Task; The Iowa Gambling Experiments and Intuition; Deep Integration of Emotion and Cognition; Emotion in More Impersonal Cognition; Putting It Together; Chapter 6. Mental Imagery, Imagination, and Intuition.
  • What Is Mental Imagery?Internal Imagery, Imagination, and Intuition; Imagination in Science; Carl Jung: Sensate Versus Intuitive Perception; The Brain�a#x80;#x99;s Two Memory and Learning Systems; Intuitive Versus Sensory Science; Possibility Versus Potentialities; Spontaneous Mental Imagery: Letting the Mind Do Its Own Thing; Capturing Spontaneous Mental Imagery; Active Imagination; Chapter 7. The Importance of Embodied Experience and Imagery in Intuition; A Senior Moment; The Development and Ongoing Integration of Bodily Experience and Cognition.
  • Embodied Imagery in the Work of Unusually Intuitive ScientistsChapter 8. A Feeling for the Truth; Metacognitive Emotion; A Glimpse of the Unconscious at Work; Checking What and Why?; A Privileged View of the Interaction of the Conscious and Unconscious Mind; A Mental Buffer Mediating Between the Conscious and Unconscious Mind; The Intuitive Self; Feelings of Truth; Why Jung and the Collective Unconscious?; Chapter 9. Who Are We?; Spiritual Intuition and Knowing What One Cannot Know; Different Kinds of Spiritual Answers to �a#x80;#x9C;Who Are We?�a#x80;#x9D;; The Collective Journey; The Personal Journey; Index.