Psychic River
Using a variety of psychoanalytic and philosophical lenses, and using the Psychic River as a metaphor, Mathew asks the question of what it means “to learn” and “to teach”. He considers the joys and frustrations of lifelong learning, and what drives us to learn as we age.
Different Psychological Perspectives on Cognitive Processes
This book highlights research in cognitive psychology in the Alps-Adria region, bringing together diverse authors from six countries. In a spirit of unity and interdisciplinarity, it serves as a basis for fruitful exchange beyond geographical and theoretical borders.
Virtual Teacher
Today’s educational system is failing. This book bridges cognitive science, neurobiology, and AI to offer a solution. It shows how to build intelligent tutoring systems that place students in an active role, as opposed to the passive one they have today.
This book uses cognitive semantics to analyze the concept of “The Christian Life” in John Henry Newman’s sermons. It identifies metaphorical models, such as “A Journey” and “A Race,” that blend everyday concepts with the domain of Christianity.
Creative Learning and MOOCs
This publication showcases papers presented at the 11th Learning and Technology Conference held in Saudi Arabia in 2014, reflecting upon the recent implementation of Massive Open Online Courses, which provide opportunities for learning to large numbers of students at little cost.
This volume explores extension—a fundamental, yet largely unexplored, aspect of language. Contributors investigate its regularities, limits, and influence on grammar and meaning, using rich examples from English, French, Polish, Russian, and German.
This volume addresses the long-standing debate on the “word”. Eleven authors analyze its multi-faceted nature from multiple linguistic perspectives, contributing to a more thorough comprehension than any single approach can afford.
An Integrated Approach to Curricular Contents
This pragmatic work provides concrete, validated teaching methods for an integrated curriculum in primary schools. Based on vast experience, it helps teachers design activities that develop specific and transdisciplinary competences.
Constructing Capacities
This book explores how learning helps people build capacities to overcome challenges. Through diverse, researched accounts, it generates new understandings of how capacities can be constructed effectively and sustainably.
Common Threads
Common Threads explores the artistic identity and memory of ten textile artists. Through their stories, it reveals how individuals create a cohesive sense of self and deepens our understanding of what it means to be an artist.
Regarding the Mind, Naturally
This book asks philosophical questions about the mind in the context of recent developments in cognitive science and evolutionary theory. Using naturalistic approaches, it explores the mind’s place in the world and re-examines traditional philosophical issues.
Connected Minds
This volume explores social cognition from psychological and collective viewpoints. It examines how the human mind processes social information, and how social interactions influence our cognition, shaping everything from stereotypes to entire societies.
Being Doll
This book explores the symbolic relationship between self and object, studying how the mind integrates opposing ideas like “youngness” and “oldness” to expand its understanding of Self through the experience of a “doll” as memory, metaphor, and art.
Explaining the Mental
This collection presents philosophical perspectives on the mental, exploring how to define and understand mental processes, and exhibiting the contrast between naturalistic and non-naturalistic approaches to thinking, knowledge, and intentionality.
Need for Sleep
This book explores the influence of fairytale details and imagery on adult cognition, and will be of interest to scholars concerned with how cognition relates specifically to understanding the subjective experience of daydreaming.
Re-doing Rapunzel’s Hair
This volume explores embodied cognition and our imaginative experience of hair, using Rapunzel’s symbolic hair as a touchstone. It introduces “fancifold,” a quality of imagination that produces both enchantment and disenchantment.
Beyond the Brain
Cognitive science now emphasizes the entrenchment of the brain in body, context and culture, rather than as the only seat of intelligence. This book provides a general overview of current research on embodied, situated and distributed cognition.
Infinity in Language
This book explores one of the most fascinating problems of the human mind: how the experience of infinity is expressed in language. Using cognitive semantics and poetics, it develops a model of the rhetoric of the sublime to answer how we present the unpresentable.
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