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Grade Aid Workbook with Practice Tests for Psychology in Context

1 review
Stephen M. Kosslyn, Robin S. Rosenberg

Allyn & Bacon, 2006

Excellent Introduction to the Field of Psychology
I had this book as a textbook for my intro to psych class. It is a well written text. Unlike most textbooks, it is not dry or boring. This book uses examples for it's concepts, such as Tiger Wood's golf game and Alice in Wonderland. It also has diagrams, definitions, graphs, tables, and mini-experiments to back up and sum up the text. In short, it is set up well for any type of learner. The text ...

Mind Time: The Temporal Factor in Consciousness (Perspectives in Cognitive Neuroscience)

4 reviews
Benjamin Libet

Harvard University Press, 2005

Excellent summary of great scientist's theories
I participated in two of Libet's experiments when I was a grad student, and knew his work well. I went on in neuroscience rather than perception, but I got well trained in both fields. So I thought I would make a few comments on that, especially in regard to the previous reviewer's remarks. I enclose those in brackets and then comment on them in my review. It's a well done review in many ways but ...

Clear and to the Point: 8 Psychological Principles for Compelling PowerPoint Presentations

10 reviews
Stephen M. Kosslyn

Oxford University Press, USA, 2007

Where research and practice meet
Finally!, a book that engages visual communication practice with cognitive neuroscience and psychology research. Too often these areas live separately and as a graphic designer professor, I find the Kosslyn's content invaluable. As producers of visual communication, students should know what is going on in the mind of their users. I plan on adding Clear and to the Point to my course ...

Cognitive Psychology: Mind and Brain

1 review
Edward E. Smith, Stephen M. Kosslyn

Prentice Hall, 2006

A step forward
Eighteen leading scientists, led by Smith and Kosslyn, have reconstructed the foundations of cognitive psychology in an innovative, current, readable, important, factually accurate textbook. First and foremost, they weave recent neuroscientific discoveries into the discussion, without abandoning a primary focus on cognitive psychology. Their sophisticated framework integrates mental and neural ...

The Case for Mental Imagery (Oxford Psychology Series)
Stephen M. Kosslyn, William L. Thompson, ...

Oxford University Press, USA, 2006

When we try to remember whether we left a window open or closed, do we actually see the window in our mind? If we do, does this mental image play a role in how we think? For almost a century, scientists have debated whether mental images play a functional role in cognition. In The Case for Mental Imagery, Stephen Kosslyn, William Thompson, and Giorgio Ganis present a complete and unified argument that mental images do depict information, and ...

Fundamentals of Psychology: The Brain, The Person, The World (2nd Edition)

5 reviews
Stephen M. Kosslyn, Robin S. Rosenberg

Allyn & Bacon, 2004

Looks good
I'm seriously tempted to switch to this text when I next teach Intro Psych. I've followed Kosslyn's work over the years and he thinks as deeply and broadly about psychology as anybody I can think of. The book looks good to me. I'm wondering if intro psych students will feel the same way.

Graph Design for the Eye and Mind

2 reviews
Stephen M. Kosslyn

Oxford University Press, USA, 2006

Run away before it is too late
I admit that I'm a graph junkie, and that I've already spent years obsessing over the details my own graphs and those of others. I'm almost incapable of processing data unless I can create a meaningful picture of it. I'll actually scan journals and books looking for satisfying graphs. I actually will take money from people to make graphs for them. I already have too many books on graph making, ...

Fundamentals of Psychology in Context (3rd Edition) (MyPsychLab Series)

1 review
Stephen M. Kosslyn, Robin S. Rosenberg

Allyn & Bacon, 2006

good
The book was in very good condition. It was delivered alittle later then expected. But all in all, it was a good transaction.

Psychology in Context (3rd Edition) (MyPsychLab Series)

Grade Aid for Fundamentals of Psychology (The Brain, The Person, The World, Grade Aid Workbook and Practice ...

1 review
Stephen M. Kosslyn, Robin S. Rosenberg

Allyn and Bacon, 2003

Be careful!
Be very careful when using Grade Aid for Funamentals of Psychology's practice tests as part of your study routine. The practice tests often have INCORRECT right answers. Always double check with your text book if you feel something is off or you do not know the correct answer in the first place. I would only advise using this book if you are careful about using the tests!

Neuroimaging of Mental Imagery, ...

Taylor & Francis, 2007

Many topics have inspired significant amounts of neuroimaging research in the recent years, and the study of mental imagery was one of the earliest that elicited a thorough empirical investigation. Twenty years later, the goal of understanding this pervasive but elusive phenomenon continues to motivate a number of sustained research programs on the part of cognitive psychologists and neuroscientists. The issues at stake are easy to formulate, ...

Image and Brain: The Resolution of the Imagery Debate

1 review
Stephen M. Kosslyn

The MIT Press, 1996

review of current thought in the field
Wanted to span the difference between pharmacology, biochemistry and the nuts and bolts approach. Kosslyn puts these into black boxes and gives the reader the "effect of" these black boxes. Specifically was looking for ideas from the psychology point of view that would point in directions into the coding and sequencing of information, not in the cognitive science or neural sense approach but ...

Psychology in Context
stephen M. kosslyn & robin s. rosenberg

allyn & bacon, 2006

size 1.3*10.5*9 psychology 100

Wet Mind

1 review
Stephen M. Kosslyn

Free Press, 1992

Computer Vision makes possible Language
Five principles of Neural networks: 1. Division of labor. Because connections between input and outputs can interfere with each other, it is more efficient to have separate networks perform different mappings. 2. Weak modularity: Individual neural networks are not independent, discrete "module" within a larger system. One can analyze the black box of the neural network and figure out how it ...

Elements of Graph Design

1 review
Stephen M. Kosslyn

W.H. Freeman & Company, 1993

An essential classic
This is a phenomenal book on designing graphs so they can be understood. It is clearly written, well reasoned, and full of very practical advice and good examples. There is nothing else like it. If you need to create effective, accurate graphs, and read just one book, this is the one. Note that this book has been re-released as Graph Design for the Eye and Mind.

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation: A Neurochronometrics of Mind (Bradford Books)

1 review
Vincent Walsh, Alvaro Pascual-Leone

The MIT Press, 2005

A new method for mental analyses
Written for research neurologists, this handsomely printed book introduces the subject of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), which joins electroencephalography (EEG), event related potentials (ERPs), magnetoencephalography (MEG), functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), and positron emission tomography (PET) as a new tool for studying the dynamics of the human brain. In simplest terms, ...

Memory and Mind: A Festschrift for Gordon H. Bower
Alan Lesgold, Brian Ross, ...

Lawrence Erlbaum, 2007

A comprehensive overview of the current state of research on memory and mind, this book captures the career and influence of Gordon H. Bower (as told by 22 of his students and colleagues), showing how Bower's research and mentoring of students has broadly and deeply affected modern research. In addition to many personal reminisces about Bower's research and graduate training in the 1950s through 1990s, this book illustrates how Bower's early ...

Image and Mind
Stephen M. Kosslyn

Harvard University Press, 1980

Are images an important means of recalling information from memory and solving problems? Or are images just display lights on the mind's computer? In Image and Mind , Stephen Kosslyn makes an impressive case for the view that images are critically involved in the life of the mind. In a series of ingenious experiments, he provides hard evidence that people can construct elaborate mental images, search them for specific information, and perform ...

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