1st Edition
Mind and Its Evolution A Dual Coding Theoretical Approach
By Allan Paivio
Copyright 2007
538 Pages
by
Psychology Press
538 Pages
by
Psychology Press
536 Pages
by
Psychology Press
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This book updates the Dual Coding Theory of mind (DCT), a theory of modern human cognition consisting of separate but interconnected nonverbal and verbal systems. Allan Paivio, a leading scholar in cognitive psychology, presents this masterwork as new findings in psychological research on memory, thought, language, and other core areas have flourished, as have pioneering developments in the... Read more
Contents: Preface. Part I: Evolved Dual-Coding Mind and Related Species. Not by Language Alone. Justification for the Theoretical Approach. Basic Principles of Dual Coding Theory. Adaptive Functions of Dual-Coding Systems. Other Representational Species. Part II: Dual Coding Theory and the Brain. Introduction to Dual Coding Theory and the Brain: A Brief History and a Brain Primer. The Multimodal Dual-Coding Brain. Adaptive Functions of Dual-Coding Brain. Brain Teasers: Common Codes and Neural Binding. Part III: Evolution of Dual-Coding Mind. Background on Evolution Issues. Animal Minds. Evolution of Language: From Naming to Association. Evolution Language: Syntax. Part IV: Peak Mind and Performance. Introduction to Expertise: A Dual Coding Perspective. Expert Performance and Knowledge. Intelligence: Toward a Dual Coding Theory. Dual Coding Theory and Creativity. Geniuses and Their Domains. Nurturing the Mind: Applications of DCT.
Biography
Allan Paivio
"Kantor's and Paivio's approach to cognitive interactions clearly suggest that the classic cognitivistic movement does not offer the only way including mediating processes in behavior theory...Mind is highly recommended as an example of how experimental psychology can subtle and complex psychology events free from cognitivistic and dualistic postulates that hark back to times when nonspatiotemporal soul was handed to psychology as a subject matter." - Dennis J. Delprato, The Psychological Record
