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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463003303321

Titolo

Action science [[electronic resource] ] : foundations of an emerging discipline / / edited by Wolfgang Prinz, Miriam Beisert, and Arvid Herwig

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2013

ISBN

0-262-31298-0

1-299-14816-6

0-262-31297-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (467 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

PrinzWolfgang <1942->

BeisertMiriam <1980->

HerwigArvid <1979->

Disciplina

153

Soggetti

Motivation (Psychology)

Cognitive psychology

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Action science emerging : introduction and leitmotifs / Arvid Herwig, Miriam Beisert, and Wolfgang Prinz -- Control and learning -- Tool use in action : the mastery of complex visuo-motor transformations / Herbert Heuer and Sandra Salzenbrack -- Implicit and explicit processes in motor learning / Jordan A. Taylor and Richard B. Ivry -- Cognitive foundations of action planning and control / David A. Rosenbaum -- Ideomotor action control : on the perceptual grounding of voluntary actions and agents / Bernhard Hommel -- Ecological approaches -- Ecological perspective on perception-action : what kind of science does it entail? / Michael T. Turvey -- Perception viewed as a phenotypic expression / Dennis R. Proffitt and Sally A. Linkenauger -- Neurocognitive mechanisms -- Understanding action from the inside / Giacomo Rizzolatti and Corrado Sinigaglia -- Beyond serial stages for attentional selection : the critical role of -- Action / Glyn W. Humphreys -- Development -- Action in infancy : a foundation for cognitive development / Claes von Hofsten



-- Developmental perspectives on action science : lessons from infant imitation and cognitive neuroscience / Andrew N. Meltzoff, Rebecca A. Williamson, and Peter J. Marshall -- Social actions -- Imitation : associative and context-dependent / Cecilia Heyes -- Joint action : from perception-action links to shared representations / Janeen D. Loehr, Natalie Sebanz, and GÃunther Knoblich -- Cognition and volition -- Premotor or ideomotor : how does the experience of action come about? / Valerian Chambon and Patrick Haggard -- Grounding the human conceptual system in perception, action, and internal states / Markus Kiefer and Lawrence W. Barsalou -- Volition in action : intentions, control dilemmas, and the dynamic regulation of cognitive control / Thomas Goschke -- Bibliographical references -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

"An overview of today's diverse theoretical and methodological approaches to action and the relationship of action and cognition."--Provided by publisher.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816772503321

Autore

Price Chris <1962->

Titolo

The blind singer / / Chris Price

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Auckland, N.Z. : , : Auckland University Press, , 2009

ISBN

1-77558-631-6

1-77558-169-1

1-86940-629-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (151 p.)

Disciplina

NZ821.3

Soggetti

New Zealand poetry

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half-title; Title Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; The Blind Singer; Air (on a tin whistle); Black sun; Swan Song; Euphonium Ode; The Lament for the Loss of the Books; Notes from The Bad Plus; Stowage; Fled is that music; Dry ice; Traitor's Gate; Owl windows; Four photographs of a piano; Berlin; Poem that wanted to begin with a line



by Kafka; The hell-box; Django & Juliette: a shoebox sonnet; Large hills make their own weather; Harriet and the Matches; Mondegreen; The night ferries; GOD: the movie; The Serpent, His Autobiography; irreversible; THE ANGEL QUESTION; Prologue; Epilogue

NotesAcknowledgements; Also by Chris Price; Copyright

Sommario/riassunto

How does ?music hold us up'? In The Blind Singer, Wellington writer Chris Price ?cultivates the art / of listening' to explore this question.  Price has a clear and precise ear and the poems dance and shimmer around ?the heart of our hearing'. And she draws on wider material: Music and science meet, shake hands, are introduced to history. Scepticism contends with superstition, and blindness and sight interrogate each other, eventually agreeing that ?Sometimes/ you have to turn away so you can see'. Price knits the curious and the arcane into her lines in poems variously elegiac, melodic,