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Book The Cambridge Handbook of Working Memory and Language

Download or read book The Cambridge Handbook of Working Memory and Language written by John W. Schwieter and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-07-21 with total page 1211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together cutting-edge research, this Handbook is the first comprehensive text to examine the pivotal role of working memory in first and second language acquisition, processing, impairments, and training. Authored by a stellar cast of distinguished scholars from around the world, the Handbook provides authoritative insights on work from diverse, multi-disciplinary perspectives, and introduces key models of working memory in relation to language. Following an introductory chapter by working memory pioneer Alan Baddeley, the collection is organized into thematic sections that discuss working memory in relation to: Theoretical models and measures; Linguistic theories and frameworks; First language processing; Bilingual acquisition and processing; and Language disorders, interventions, and instruction. The Handbook is sure to interest and benefit researchers, clinicians, speech therapists, and advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students in linguistics, psychology, education, speech therapy, cognitive science, and neuroscience, or anyone seeking to learn more about language, cognition and the human mind.

Book The Book of Memory

    Book Details:
  • Author : Petina Gappah
  • Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • Release : 2016-02-02
  • ISBN : 0374714886
  • Pages : 289 pages

Download or read book The Book of Memory written by Petina Gappah and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2016-02-02 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story that you have asked me to tell you does not begin with the pitiful ugliness of Lloyd’s death. It begins on a long-ago day in August when the sun seared my blistered face and I was nine years old and my father and mother sold me to a strange man. Memory, the narrator of Petina Gappah’s The Book of Memory, is an albino woman languishing in Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison in Harare, Zimbabwe, after being sentenced for murder. As part of her appeal, her lawyer insists that she write down what happened as she remembers it. The death penalty is a mandatory sentence for murder, and Memory is, both literally and metaphorically, writing for her life. As her story unfolds, Memory reveals that she has been tried and convicted for the murder of Lloyd Hendricks, her adopted father. But who was Lloyd Hendricks? Why does Memory feel no remorse for his death? And did everything happen exactly as she remembers? Moving between the townships of the poor and the suburbs of the rich, and between past and present, the 2009 Guardian First Book Award–winning writer Petina Gappah weaves a compelling tale of love, obsession, the relentlessness of fate, and the treachery of memory.

Book The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance

Download or read book The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance written by K. Anders Ericsson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-06-26 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was the first handbook where the world's foremost 'experts on expertise' reviewed our scientific knowledge on expertise and expert performance and how experts may differ from non-experts in terms of their development, training, reasoning, knowledge, social support, and innate talent. Methods are described for the study of experts' knowledge and their performance of representative tasks from their domain of expertise. The development of expertise is also studied by retrospective interviews and the daily lives of experts are studied with diaries. In 15 major domains of expertise, the leading researchers summarize our knowledge on the structure and acquisition of expert skill and knowledge and discuss future prospects. General issues that cut across most domains are reviewed in chapters on various aspects of expertise such as general and practical intelligence, differences in brain activity, self-regulated learning, deliberate practice, aging, knowledge management, and creativity.

Book Cambridge Memory Manual

Download or read book Cambridge Memory Manual written by Narinder Kapur and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Development

Download or read book The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Development written by Olivier Houdé and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-03 with total page 727 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does cognition develop in infants, children and adolescents? This handbook presents a cutting-edge overview of the field of cognitive development, spanning basic methodology, key domain-based findings and applications. Part One covers the neurobiological constraints and laws of brain development, while Part Two covers the fundamentals of cognitive development from birth to adulthood: object, number, categorization, reasoning, decision-making and socioemotional cognition. The final Part Three covers educational and school-learning domains, including numeracy, literacy, scientific reasoning skills, working memory and executive skills, metacognition, curiosity-driven active learning and more. Featuring chapters written by the world's leading scholars in experimental and developmental psychology, as well as in basic neurobiology, cognitive neuroscience, computational modelling and developmental robotics, this collection is the most comprehensive reference work to date on cognitive development of the twenty-first century. It will be a vital resource for scholars and graduate students in developmental psychology, neuroeducation and the cognitive sciences.

Book The Book of Memory

Download or read book The Book of Memory written by Mary Carruthers and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-05-01 with total page 875 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Carruthers's classic study of the training and uses of memory for a variety of purposes in European cultures during the Middle Ages has fundamentally changed the way scholars understand medieval culture. This fully revised and updated second edition considers afresh all the material and conclusions of the first. While responding to new directions in research inspired by the original, this new edition devotes much more attention to the role of trained memory in composition, whether of literature, music, architecture, or manuscript books. The new edition will reignite the debate on memory in medieval studies and, like the first, will be essential reading for scholars of history, music, the arts and literature, as well as those interested in issues of orality and literacy (anthropology), in the working and design of memory (both neuropsychology and artificial memory), and in the disciplines of meditation (religion).

Book Memory Rehabilitation

    Book Details:
  • Author : Barbara A. Wilson
  • Publisher : Guilford Press
  • Release : 2009-05-21
  • ISBN : 1606233831
  • Pages : 305 pages

Download or read book Memory Rehabilitation written by Barbara A. Wilson and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 2009-05-21 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a well-known authority, this comprehensive yet accessible book shows how state-of-the-art research can be applied to help people with nonprogressive memory disorders improve their functioning and quality of life. Barbara Wilson describes a broad range of interventions, including compensatory aids, learning strategies, and techniques for managing associated anxiety and stress. She reviews the evidence base for each clinical strategy or tool and offers expert guidance on how to assess patients, set treatment goals, develop individualized rehabilitation programs, and conduct memory groups. The book also provides essential background knowledge on the nature and causes of memory impairment.

Book Neurological Rehabilitation

Download or read book Neurological Rehabilitation written by Michael P. Barnes and published by Newnes. This book was released on 2013-01-10 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neurological Rehabilitation is the latest volume in the definitive Handbook of Clinical Neurology series. It is the first time that this increasing important subject has been included in the series and this reflects the growing interest and quality of scientific data on topics around neural recovery and the practical applications of new research. The volume will appeal to clinicians from both neurological and rehabilitation backgrounds and contains topics of interest to all members of the multidisciplinary clinical team as well as the neuroscience community. The volume is divided into five key sections. The first is a summary of current research on neural repair, recovery and plasticity. The authors have kept the topics readable for a non-scientific audience and focused on the aspects of basic neuroscience that should be most relevant to clinical practice. The next section covers the basic principles of neurorehabilitation, including excellent chapters on learning and skill acquisition, outcome measurement and functional neuroimaging. The key clinical section comes next and includes updates and reviews on the management of the main neurological disabling physical problems, such as spasticity, pain, sexual functioning and dysphagia. Cognitive, emotional and behavioural problems are just as important and are covered in the next section, with excellent chapters, for example, on memory and management of executive dysfunction. The final part draws the sections on symptom management together by discussing the individual diseases that are most commonly seen in neurorehabilitation and providing an overview of the management of the disability associated with those disorders. The volume is a definitive review of current neurorehabilitation practice and will be valuable to a wide range of clinicians and scientists working in this rapidly developing field. - A volume in the Handbook of Clinical Neurology series, which has an unparalleled reputation as the world's most comprehensive source of information in neurology - International list of contributors including the leading workers in the field - Describes the advances which have occurred in clinical neurology and the neurosciences, their impact on the understanding of neurological disorders and on patient care

Book Epilepsy and Memory

    Book Details:
  • Author : Adam Zeman
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2012-06-28
  • ISBN : 0199580286
  • Pages : 487 pages

Download or read book Epilepsy and Memory written by Adam Zeman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-28 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Epilepsy is one of the most common potentially serious disorders of the brain, and patients often suffer from memory problems. This book comprehensively reviews all aspects of the relationship between this common and potentially serious neurological disorder and memory, one of the core functions of the human mind.

Book Neurological Rehabilitation

Download or read book Neurological Rehabilitation written by Barbara A. Wilson and published by Elsevier Inc. Chapters. This book was released on 2013-01-10 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This chapter begins with a discussion about the common characteristics of people with memory deficits resulting from brain injury followed by a description of a typical patient referred for memory rehabilitation. We then address some general principles to help people with memory deficits. These principles include ways of improving encoding, storage, and retrieval. The next section addresses more specific strategies to help people (a) cope without a memory through environmental modifications, (b) learn more efficiently (particularly through errorless learning strategies), and (c) compensate for their problems through external memory aids. A memory aids resource center is described. The impact of memory impairment on emotions is considered. A summary of the main components of a memory rehabilitation program is provided. The overall conclusion is that rehabilitation can help people to compensate for, bypass, or reduce their everyday problems and thus survive more efficiently in their own most appropriate environments

Book Operating Manual for Enlightenment

Download or read book Operating Manual for Enlightenment written by Lincoln Stoller and published by Universal-Publishers. This book was released on 2024-11-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is not offering enlightenment, it's describing it. The enlightened mind unites intellect and emotion despite their separation being built into the structure of our brains. This split appears in the mythic division between our lower and higher natures, and the separation of mind and body. Intellect and emotion function in concert. As color and shape are to vision, one complements the other. When fully integrated, they cannot be taken apart. The topics in the book's first half lean toward the intellectual. The second half looks at the division from the emotional side. What we are separating with one hand, we are putting together with the other. Struggle: We naturally consider our problems as different from ourselves. We see them in our environment, and rely on our skills and insights to resolve them. Our intellectual solutions address one aspect of these problems, while our emotions address another. Are these problems to be solved, or processes to be understood? What should we do if our problems are inside us? Mind: Your state determines your readiness, arousal, and self-reflection. Your state of mind orients your thinking, how you can feel about yourself, and who you re able to be. Equally important are thoughts you’re not likely to have,or cannot have at all. This book is about the states of mind that support focus, awareness, thoughts, and feelings. It s is not a guide to solving problems, it s an explanation of how you see. State: With our state of mind, we gather our thoughts and focus our attention. Focus without a state is like a telescope with no one to look through it. In order to focus, first take full responsibility for all you think and feel. The properties of your state determine what you re capable of. One state of mind is not enough because you cannot understand the world from one point of view. Your future is determined by your range of states of mind. Wisdom: Alternate states of mind support understandings we don t have. They may be logical, emotional, spiritual, or evanescent. They could involve knowledge spread across generations so that no one generation has the complete picture. We might call them prophetic, inspired, psychedelic, or delusional. Larger states of mind develop with experience, but they re not defined by the facts they hold. One needs a state of mind that can accommodate contradictions without generating conflict. Instantaneous Enlightenment: Change does not happen instantly, but epiphanies feel instantaneous. The reason is simple: a new state is a whole rearrangement of one’s previous conception. There are no halfway states to total rearrangement. Many pieces need to fall into place before we can make ourselves into something new. We are at a watershed moment in our understanding of the mind, after which psychology will change. Instead of focusing on thoughts and behavior, we are coming to understand that what s important is what you can think and how you can behave. The Operating Manual is an intellectual, emotional, and neurological road map to the integration you don’t yet have. REVIEWS and WORDS of PRAISE What a pleasure to see the wry wit and humor of an old friend focused on that which we all take for granted: our deep complex 'hard problem' of consciousness. It is not a linear treatise, but a winding through the mind’s labyrinthine pathways to archetypal insights. What a pleasant journey! --Jay Gunkelman, Chief Science Officer of Brain Science International and NeuroNet Neuroscience Centers. Past president of the International Society for Neurofeedback and Research, and the Biofeedback Society of California I strongly recommend Operating Manual for Enlightenment. It is a true guide to empowering and liberating yourself, written in common language. The pages are full of gems for readers of all ages and interests. --Adrian Bejan, Distinguished Professor of Engineering, author of Freedom and Evolution, and The Physics of Life: The Evolution of Everything Like Castaneda's The Teachings of Don Juan, Lincoln's Operating Manual is an essential "life reference"... wherever, whenever or whoever slips into these fields of care and concern, or dives into the waves of the vast ocean of life. These visions from the "oh so human minds" are worthy of the effort ~!~ Thank you, inspired ~!~ --Armand Huet de Grenier, psychotherapist, adult and youth special educator, organization business consultant, Fellow of the Clinical Hypnosis Society of Nova Scotia, and past president of the Mahone Bay Buddhist Meditation Centre. Carrier of the of the Eagle Staff at the Gesgapegiag Mi'kmaq SunDance in Maria, Quebec Dr. Lincoln Stoller thinks outside the box of current thoughts and existing practices, beyond the dross of what’s taught to find the potential we’ve been told to keep hidden. Are you a conformist or a rebel? Do you do what you're told or go for the gold ring? Go over the breach to lead future generations into the world! Thank you, Dr. Stoller. --Tony Hunt, Host of Educational Triage Podcast, Alternative Ed Director and Developer A cornucopia of facts, thoughts, and ideas about what it is to be us. Such a pleasure to read!” — Allan Leslie Combs, Professor of Consciousness Studies, author of The Radiance of ¬Being, and Consciousness Explained Better (“The finest book on consciousness written in modern times, bar none.) --Ken Wilber Lincoln's work goes to places few have gone before. Drawing on dozens of fields, he creates a super-structure of everything that inhabits your body and mind. I consider him a true sage, sharp thinker, and skillful therapist. For the first time in my life I’m grasping what it feels like to be integrated. Whole with myself. --Richard Guenther, MSc, IT Manager, Business Analyst ’ve gained so many connections into the crazy day I've had, allowing me a bigger space to process all the voices, personalities, and opinions that came up. --Charlene Bradbury, speech therapist Through carefully crafted examples and exercises, the author illustrates how these elements converge, enhancing our understanding of such a complex subject. An enriching journey of insights on enlightenment, highlighting the interconnectedness of intellect and emotion, experience and being, with clear and brilliant exposition. --Dr. Rubén Pérez-Elvira, Neuropsychologist Enlightenment is a complex concept in these dark times. Or is it? Lincoln Stoller has a knack for deriving clarity from complexity without being verbose. He shines his 'black light' of enlightenment on the 'crime scene' of contemporary consciousness, finding clues to the nature of humanity where others see only stains. An enjoyable, insightful read. --Captain Ben "Doc” Askin", author and podcast host of Anti-Hero’s Journey

Book The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Science

Download or read book The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Science written by Keith Frankish and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-19 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authoritative, up-to-date survey of the state of the art in cognitive science, written for non-specialists.

Book Teaching Pronunciation

    Book Details:
  • Author : Marianne Celce-Murcia
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 1996-10-13
  • ISBN : 9780521406949
  • Pages : 470 pages

Download or read book Teaching Pronunciation written by Marianne Celce-Murcia and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-10-13 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This course includes an overview of current theory and practice. The paperback edition offers current and prospective teachers of English a comprehensive treatment of pronunciation pedagogy, drawing on current theory and practice. The text provides an overview of teaching issues from the perspective of different methodologies and second language acquisition research. It has a thorough grounding in the sound system of North American English, and contains insights into how this sound system intersects with listening, morphology, and spelling. It also contains diagnostic tools, assessment measures, and suggestions for syllabus design. Discussion questions encourage readers to draw on their personal language learning/teaching experiences as they assimilate the contents of each chapter. Follow-up exercises guide teachers in developing a range of classroom activities within a communicative framework.

Book Tallinn Manual 2 0 on the International Law Applicable to Cyber Operations

Download or read book Tallinn Manual 2 0 on the International Law Applicable to Cyber Operations written by Michael N. Schmitt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-02 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tallinn Manual 2.0 expands on the highly influential first edition by extending its coverage of the international law governing cyber operations to peacetime legal regimes. The product of a three-year follow-on project by a new group of twenty renowned international law experts, it addresses such topics as sovereignty, state responsibility, human rights, and the law of air, space, and the sea. Tallinn Manual 2.0 identifies 154 'black letter' rules governing cyber operations and provides extensive commentary on each rule. Although Tallinn Manual 2.0 represents the views of the experts in their personal capacity, the project benefitted from the unofficial input of many states and over fifty peer reviewers.

Book Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual

Download or read book Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual written by Vittorio Lingiardi and published by Guilford Publications. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 1106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now completely revised (over 90% new), this is the authoritative diagnostic manual grounded in psychodynamic clinical models and theories. Explicitly oriented toward case formulation and treatment planning, PDM-2 offers practitioners an empirically based, clinically useful alternative or supplement to DSM and ICD categorical diagnoses. Leading international authorities systematically address personality functioning and psychological problems of infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and old age, including clear conceptualizations and illustrative case examples. Purchasers get access to a companion website where they can find additional case illustrations and download and print five reproducible PDM-derived rating scales in a convenient 8 1/2" x 11" size. New to This Edition *Significant revisions to all chapters, reflecting a decade of clinical, empirical, and methodological advances. *Chapter with extended case illustrations, including complete PDM profiles. *Separate section on older adults (the first classification system with a geriatric section). *Extensive treatment of psychotic conditions and the psychotic level of personality organization. *Greater attention to issues of culture and diversity, and to both the clinician's and patient's subjectivity. *Chapter on recommended assessment instruments, plus reproducible/downloadable diagnostic tools. *In-depth comparisons to DSM-5 and ICD-10-CM throughout. Sponsoring associations include the International Psychoanalytical Association, Division 39 of the American Psychological Association, the American Psychoanalytic Association, the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis & Psychotherapy, the American Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work, and five other organizations. Winner--American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis Book Prize (Clinical Category)

Book Memory Disorders in Clinical Practice

Download or read book Memory Disorders in Clinical Practice written by Narinder Kapur and published by Butterworth-Heinemann. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memory Disorders in Clinical Practice provides a comprehensive discussion of memory disorders, focusing on objective studies of memory disorder rather than simple clinical descriptions of memory impairment. The book is principally concerned with acquired neurological disorders, and so most congenital and psychiatric conditions are not covered in depth, although these are occasionally referred to where they relate to particular neurological problems. The book begins with a discussion of memory assessment in clinical practice, covering the assessment of specific memory deficits and memory test batteries. This is followed by separate chapters on memory deficits caused by cerebrovascular disease, cerebral tumors, penetrating and blunt head injuries, dementia, infections of the central nervous system, chronic toxic or deficiency states, epilepsy, and ablation/disconnection of cerebral tissue. The book concludes with Appendices containing sources for materials which may be of use in designing memory tests for the assessment of neurological patients; and sources for information/materials relating to the remediation of memory disorders.

Book The Cambridge Guide to Learning English as a Second Language

Download or read book The Cambridge Guide to Learning English as a Second Language written by Anne Burns and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides an up-to-date and comprehensive coverage of second language learning. The focus throughout the book is primarily on language learning, but each chapter also discusses the implications for teaching and assessment, thus informing both understanding and practice. The book contains nine sections, which aim to organise and reflect different dimensions of the diverse and complex scope of learning English as a second or additional language. Four themes which permeate the chapters are: learning and learners; learning and language; learning and language development; learning and learning context. The 36 chapters are up-to-date and authoritative, written by experts in the field. The content is accessibly written, with questions for discussion and follow-up reading suggestions provided.