Knowing Hands - The Cognitive Psychology of Manual Control

Informationen zum Autor David A. Rosenbaum is a cognitive psychologist whose main interests are human perception and performance. He attended Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania and Stanford University, California, where he received his PhD. He worked at Bell Laboratories, Hampshire College, Amhert, Massachusetts, the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and Pennsylvania State University. He is currently a Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Riverside. Rosenbaum was the Editor of the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance and a recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. Klappentext Knowing Hands analyzes the cognitive psychology of manual control. Zusammenfassung Knowing Hands analyzes the cognitive psychology of manual control. This book will appeal to general readers interested in an accessible overview of the psychology and neuroscience underlying motor control. It will also serve as a supplemental text in a wide range of courses! including cognition! perception! occupational therapy! and robotics. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface ; 1. Introducing hands; 2. Building hands; 3. Energizing hands; 4. Willing hands; 5. Seeing hands; 6. Hearing hands; 7. Feeling hands; 8. Joining hands; 9. Extending hands; Notes; References; Index.

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• Authors: David A. Rosenbaum, David A. (Pennsylvania State University Rosenbaum, David A. (Pennsylvania State University) Rosenbaum, Rosenbaum David A.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.02.2017
• EAN: 9781107094727
• ISBN: 978-1-107-09472-7
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Cognitivism, cognitive theory