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• Edited by Duane G. Watson, Michael Wagner and Edward Gibson.

Prosody is the rhythm, stress and intonation of speech, which encodes information that is not encoded by the syntax or words of an utterance. Prosody is critical for parsing speech, constructing syntactic structure, and building a representation of the conversational discourse model, among other…

ISBN: 9781848727403

Published Nov 09, 2010 by Psychology Press

• Edited by Katrin Doveling, Christian von Scheve and Elly A. Konijn.

The impact of mass media on individuals and society is to a great extent based on human emotions. Emotions, in turn, are essential in understanding how media messages are processed as well as media’s impact on individual and social behavior and public social life. Adopting an interdisciplinary…

ISBN: 9780415481601

Published Sep 28, 2010 by Routledge

• By Michael Burke.

This work seeks to chart what happens in the embodied minds of engaged readers when they read literature. Despite the recent stylistic, linguistic, and cognitive advances that have been made in text-processing methodology and practice, very little is known about this cultural-cognitive process and…

ISBN: 9780415872324

Published Sep 27, 2010 by Routledge

• Edited by Kathleen L. Mosier, and Ute M. Fischer.

The focus of this book is on how experts adapt to complexity, synthesize and interpret information in context, and transform or "fuse" disparate items of information into coherent knowledge. The chapters examine these processes across experts (e.g. global leaders, individuals in extreme…

ISBN: 9781848729117

Published Sep 22, 2010 by Psychology Press

• By Michael Burke.

This work seeks to chart what happens in the embodied minds of engaged readers when they read literature. Despite the recent stylistic, linguistic, and cognitive advances that have been made in text-processing methodology and practice, very little is known about this cultural-cognitive process and…

ISBN: 9780203840306

Published Sep 22, 2010 by Routledge

• Edited by Sean Crawford.

Philosophy of Mind is concerned with fundamental issues about the relation between mind and body and mind and world, and with the nature of the diverse variety of mental phenomena, such as thought, self-knowledge, consciousness, perception, sensation, and emotion. Philosophers of mind explore some…

ISBN: 9780415471916

Published Sep 22, 2010 by Routledge

• Edited by Jackie Guendouzi, Filip Loncke and Mandy J. Williams.

This handbook includes an overview of those areas of cognition and language processing that are relevant to the field of communication disorders, and provides examples of theoretical approaches to problems and issues in communication disorders. The first section includes a collection of chapters…

ISBN: 9781848729100

Published Sep 08, 2010 by Psychology Press

• Edited by Anil Seth, and Geraint Rees.

How do conscious experience, subjectivity, and free will arise from the brain and the body? Even in the late 20th century, consciousness was considered to be beyond the reach of science. Now, understanding the neural mechanisms underlying consciousness is recognized as a key objective for 21st…

ISBN: 9781848727397

Published Sep 06, 2010 by Psychology Press