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In this Element, the authors address the human ability to effortlessly understand the actions of other people by first considering the kinds of information an observer may gain when viewing an action.
This Element focuses on variability in perception, asking how it affects performance in visual tasks and how the variability is represented by human observers. The authors highlight different methods for assessing representations of variability by implicit methods.
This Element tries to discern the known unknowns in the field of Pragmatics, the 'Dark Matter' of the title. It thus offers a brief review of some central... Læs mere
This Element outlines how we perceive speech and explores what the auditory system needs to achieve to make this possible. It traces a path through the system and discusses the... Læs mere
From one of the world's foremost neuroscientists and acclaimed author of Descartes' Error comes a bold new theory of the origins - and consequences - of human consciousness.
Leaders’ Decision Making and Neuroscience will take you on a journey of how a decision is made in your brain from a perspective of neuroscience and provides incredible insight into the nature of how the brain and nervous systems work in relation to decision making.
In recent years, decision theory has increasingly acknowledged the reality of preference change throughout life. This Element provides an accessible introduction and new contributions to the debates on preference change.
This Element surveys leading accounts of what value judgments are exactly. It then explores the particular values we are apparently sensitive to when making two judgments endemic to human life: about what makes a life good.
Human behavioural ecology examines the adaptive design of traits, behaviours, and life histories in an ecological context. With numerous ethnographic insights and field-based... Læs mere
Using new empirical evidence, this book weaves together insights from a multidisciplinary review into a comprehensive theory on... Læs mere