The linguistic representation of conceptual structure is the central concern of this volume and of its companion volume. While such conceptual organization in language had once been insu½ciently addressed, attention to it has been increasing over the last two to three decades. The growing research in this relatively recent linguistic domainÐwhich has generally come to be known as cognitive li…

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The Woodcock?Johnson III (WJ III) is an extensive revision of its predecessor, expanded in depth, breadth, and complexity. It is widely used for assessing the cognitive abilities, oral language capabilities, and academic achievement levels of children, adolescents, and adults. The WJ III includes extensive examiner and technical manuals, and several interpretive texts are available. Although mu…

This volume on Attention and Implicit Learning provides a comprehensive overview of the research conducted in this area. It is conceived as a multidisciplinary forum of discussion on the question of whether implicit learning ? that is often defined as the learning that takes place without intention and awareness ? may also be depicted as a process that runs independently of attention or whether…

The essays in this collection represent a variety of positions on a number of topics: the nature of emotion, the category of emotion, the rationality of emotions, the relationship between an emotion and its expression, the relationship between emotion, motivation, and action, the biological nature versus social construction of emotion, the role of the body in emotion, the extent of freedom and …

Language teaching has developed greatly during the time of my education and career, especially as far as teaching and learning communicative skills are concerned. Moreover, the concepts of teaching goals have expanded from teaching a language to teaching intercultural communication. The quality of the foreign language teaching in our country is high, something I have been able to proclaim when …

Despite the mounting evidence that supports brain-based learning, some critics say, ?It?s no big deal: there?s nothing new? or, ?We don?t know enough to do anything.? Some even say, ?Nothing will change.? I wonder if those same critics would have had similar things to say at Kitty Hawk in 1903, when theWright brothers flew the first airplane only 100 yards: ?It?s no big deal,? ?It won?t change …

Organizations usually conduct self-assessments to better understand their own performance and to address their strategic issues and thus, ultimately, to improve their performance. Organizational self-assessment is often used as a diagnostic, or a starting point, for organizations implementing an internal change or strategic planning process, or both. It can also be used as a way to engage in di…

Beyond a doubt, neuroscience has become as important to contemporary philosophy as physics and evolutionary theory were to past modern philosophy. This development questions the general liaison of science and philosophy. It requires that we first outline our concept of philosophy before we carefully explore neurophilosophy?s research ventures. Anyone defining philosophy as a discipline dealing …