Knowledge As a Feeling - How Neuroscience and Psychology Impact Human Information Behavior

This book explores the idea that knowing is a feeling that results from the interactions of the brain’s unconscious and conscious processes and not through the accumulation of facts. It explains what neuroscience and psychology reveal about what it means to know and how our brain learns.

About the author

Troy A. Swanson is Teaching & Learning Librarian and Library Department Chair at Moraine Valley Community College. Troy is the author or editor of several books and articles including co-editor of Not Just Where to Click: Teaching Students How to Think About Information which received the Ilene F. Rockman Publication of the Year Award from ARCL’s Instruction Section. His Ph.D. dissertation focused on the management of technology policy in higher education. He served on ACRL’s Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education Task Force which issued the Framework for Information Literacy. Over his tenure as a librarian and educator, Troy has won his campus's Master Teacher and Innovation of the Year awards, as well as the Proquest Innovation in College Librarianship award from ACRL.

Summary

Knowledge as a Feeling offers new reflective and metacognitive tools that help meet this moment in the evolution of our information ecosystem. The book has significant implications for information science, challenging theoreticians and practitioners to reconsider how individuals process information.

Product details

• Authors: Troy A. Swanson, Swanson Troy A.
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.2023
• EAN: 9781538178928
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-7892-8
• No. of pages: 326
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Book trade, library system; PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, PSYCHOLOGY / Evolutionary Psychology, Physiological & neuro-psychology, biopsychology, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Physiological and neuro-psychology, biopsychology, Cognition and cognitive psychology