The big question in the science of psychology is: why is human cognition and behavior so different from the capabilities of every other animal species on Earth - including our close genetic relations, the chimpanzees? This book provides a coherent answer by examining those aspects of the human brain that have made triadic forms of perception and cognition possible. Mechanisms of dyadic association sufficiently explain animal perception, cognition and behavior, but a three-way associational mechanism is required to explain the human talents for language, tool-making, harmony perception, pictorial depth perception and the joint attention that underlies all forms of social cooperation.
Recenzijos
'Cook's unique thesis is that the human mind emerged from two related evolutionary changes: triadic sensory processing and cerebral laterality. In making stone tools, our early ancestors learned how to handle visual, auditory and touch information simultaneously in posterior association cortex. But, in making tools they were obliged to train one hand (hemisphere) to be the motor executive. Precisely because the other 'non-dominant' hemisphere was not an executive, it developed its own talents for various types of configurational processing: face recognition, harmony perception, language prosody and other holistic processes not requiring executive control.' Theodor Landis, Université de Genčve
Daugiau informacijos
This book addresses the difference between the mental processes of animals and those of the human mind.
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1.2 Triadic Perception, Triadic Cognition and Triadic Social Interaction |
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1.5 Pictorial Depth Perception |
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2.1 Tonality and Dissonance |
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2.2 Tension and Instability |
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2.3 The Modality of Triads |
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2.4 The Affective Valence of Major and Minor |
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2.5 Traditional Harmony Theory |
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2.6 This Is Your Brain on Harmony |
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115 | (2) |
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3 Human Seeing: Perspective |
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3.1 Stereoscopic Vision: Two Static Points of View |
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3.2 Motion Parallax: Two Sequential Points of View |
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3.3 Pictorial Depth Perception |
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3.6 Historical Perspective on Shadows |
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3.7 A Reclassification of Depth Cues |
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3.8 "Perspective as Symbolic Form" |
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3.9 Variations on the Illusion of Depth |
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3.10 This Is Your Brain on Reverse Perspective |
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4 Human Work: Tools and Handedness |
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4.2 Toolmaking and Handedness |
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4.3 The Division of Labor Between the Cerebral Hemispheres |
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4.5 Trimodal Cortical Regions |
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4.7 The Behavioral Neurology of Tool Use |
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4.8 Conditional Associations |
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5 Human Communication: Language |
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5.1 The Tripartite Architecture of Language |
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5.3 The Evolution of Language |
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5.4 Subjects, Objects, Verbs |
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6.2 Three Levels of Discussion |
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6.3 Five Approaches to Subjectivity |
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6.4 The Neurophysiological Solution |
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6.6 Consciousness Is Understood, Self-Consciousness Is Not |
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7.5 Intelligent Neural Networks |
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Norman D. Cook has authored three books on human psychology, Stability and Flexibility (1980), The Brain Code (1986) and Tone of Voice and Mind (2002). He has also published articles in numerous journals, including Nature, Perception, Journal of Experimental Psychology, Brain, American Scientist, Behavioral Science, Empirical Aesthetics, Music Perception, Spatial Vision, Cognitive Science, Brain and Language, Brain and Cognition, Consciousness and Cognition and Neuroscience. He is currently a professor of cognitive psychology at Kansai University, Osaka.
