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• Edited by Bettina Bläsing, Martin Puttke and Thomas Schack.

Dance has always been an important aspect of all human cultures, and the study of human movement and action has become a topic of increasing relevance over the last decade, bringing dance into the focus of the cognitive sciences. This book discusses the wide range of interrelations between body…

ISBN: 9781848720244

Published Apr 13, 2010 by Psychology Press

• Edited by Emily Balcetis, and G. Daniel Lassiter.

This volume takes a contemporary and novel look at how people see the world around them. We generally believe we see our surroundings and everything in it with complete accuracy. However, as the contributions to this volume argue, this assumption is wrong: people’s view of their world is…

ISBN: 9781848728042

Published Apr 11, 2010 by Psychology Press

• By Siu-Lan Tan, Peter Pfordresher and Rom Harré.

Why are some disturbances of air molecules heard as 'noise' while others are perceived as music? What happens at the level of the sound wave, the ear, and the brain when we perform or listen to music? How do musical abilities emerge and develop, and become refined as one acquires musical expertise?…

ISBN: 9781841698687

Published Apr 06, 2010 by Psychology Press