Psychology & Psychiatry : Cognitive Psychology

Communicating Partners, the result of over thirty years of clinical practice and research work with pre-verbal and verbal children with language delays, offers an innovative approach to working with late talking children that focuses on developing relationships through mutual understanding. Providing detailed maps of what children and their life partners need to do to ensure effective social relationships, the program focuses on five key stages of communication development - interactive play, nonverbal communication, social language, conversation, and civil behavior - and five life-long responsive strategies to use every day to build relationships within the child's own world. Communicating Partners addresses issues such as: What does a child need to do before language?; What are effective ways to help a child socialize and communicate from early play through civil conversations?; How have parents successfully helped children learn to communicate at home?; How can a child develop socially effective language and conversation skills?; How can a child with an autistic spectrum disorder, Down Syndrome or other significant delays develop rich social relationships?; What have families done to build warm social relationships with their children?; What is developmentally effective therapy and education when social and communicative delays are of major concern?. Illustrated with personal stories and research findings, and containing a wealth of practical suggestions to help parents, teachers, and professionals understand their child's world, Communicating Partners is an invaluable resource for all those interacting and working with late talking children. more...

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This is the first book to take a comparative approach to brain lateralization. It examines lower vertebrates, birds, nonprimate mammals, and primates, including humans, highlighting model systems that elucidate the function, causes, development, and evolution of lateralization. Topics include the evolution, development, and cognitive dimensions of lateralization, and its role in memory. more...

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This special issue on conceptual representation contains invited papers from leading researchers across the range of cognitive science disciplines, addressing the nature of semantic and conceptual representation in the mind and brain. more...

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CONNNECTIONISM is a "hands on" introduction to connectionist modeling. Three different types of connectionist architectures - distributed associative memory, perceptron, and multilayer perceptron - are explored. In an accessible style, Dawson provides a brief overview of each architecture, a detailed introduction on how to use a program to explore this network, and a series of practical exercises that are designed to highlight the advantages, and disadvantages, of each and to provide a "road map" to the field of cognitive modeling. This book is designed to be used as a stand-alone volume, or alongside Minds and Machines: Connectionism and Psychological Modeling (Blackwell Publishing, 2004). An accompanying website is available at www bcp.psych.ualberta.ca/ mike/Book3/ and includes practice exercises and software, as well as the files and blank exercise sheets that are required for performing the exercises. more...

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A unique interdisciplinary collection of reviews on the connection between the mind and brain. more...

Price: $69.95