Key Insights into Basic Mechanisms of Mental Activity
A more nuanced perspective on cognition, behavior, personality, and pathology. Mind/brain. It is explained that mental activity is not possible without concepts/memory structures that exist in the brain and result from perceptual learning. Core ment
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Key Insights into Basic Mechanisms of Mental Activity
Key Insights into Basic Mechanisms of Mental Activity
Otto Buxbaum
Key Insights into Basic Mechanisms of Mental Activity
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Otto Buxbaum Department of Psychology University of Graz Graz Austria
ISBN 978-3-319-29466-7 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-29467-4
ISBN 978-3-319-29467-4
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Preface
Mind and mental activity are very abstract scientifically concepts. Nevertheless, you immediately get some clarity when you think about determinants of human behavior. There is no doubt that human behavior is largely dependent on material (physical, chemical), organic and social stimulation. But behavior can be preceded by complex judgment, thinking and decision-making. Such processes are important examples of mental activity. A short overview of the literature about the study of the mind and behavior, which is presented in the first chapter of this book, shows that the past and current research have led to extensive new knowledge about various forms of mental activity, its relation to behavior and the underlying neural systems. But how it is possible to write a very short book about the mind and mental activity that extends existing knowledge considerably? The answer is manifold. Most important is the existence of detailed knowledge about scientific concepts that relate to the central states and processes of mental activity. These findings come from researchers from around the world, including my own studies about the process of judgment. Examples of the findings include knowledge about cortical and emotional/affective arousal, perceptual learning (the most influential form of non-verbal and verbal learning), memory structures and syste
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