Neural and Psychological Development

Economic, Psychological, and Neural Creatures

" Perception and choice are the products of context dependent and comparative evaluation mechanisms that can be systematic and predictable, but that do not readily lend themselves to analyses that assume consistency, independence and invariance. "-Eldar Shafir Eldar Shafir's paper powerfully reinforces the notion that we are indeed different creatures from what much economics supposed. To cite ...

Malnutrition and psychological development.

psychological reformation of jane austens heroines: pride and prejudice and mansfield park

this study focuses on jane austens representation of her heroines in two of her novels: pride and prejudice, and mansfield park. i have concentrated only on a single idea: how jane austen takes her heroines through a course of psychogical reformation to which almost everything else in her novel is subsidiary. although i have discussed only pride and prejudice, we can trace austens carefully pla...

Biology, Evolution, and Psychological Development

WHAT IS PSYCHOLOGY? 115 A RELATIONAL DEVELOPMENTAL SYSTEMS APPROACH 117 BIOLOGICAL FACTORS IN BEHAVIORAL DEVELOPMENT: EVOLUTION AND GENETICS 118 Evolution 118 Genetics—The Mechanism of Evolution? 125 BIOLOGICAL FACTORS IN BEHAVIORAL DEVELOPMENT: THE BRAIN AND NERVOUS SYSTEM 127 Brain and Mind 128 Contemporary Neuroscience and Its Problems 130 BIOLOGY AND DEVELOPMENT 135 Role of the Gene in Deve...

Neural implementation of psychological spaces .

— Psychological spaces give natural framework for construction of mental representations. Neural model of psychological spaces provides a link between neuroscience and psychology. Cate-gorization performed in high-dimensional spaces by dynamical asso-ciative memory models is approximated with low-dimensional feedfor-ward neural models calculating probability density functions in psychological s...