Richard Passingham
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3. Attending
Questions
1. Why do some patients neglect things to their left after a stroke?
Daniel M. Haybron
A Very Short Introduction
Daniel M. Haybron
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5. The sources of happiness
Usha Goswami
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2. Learning about the outside world
Nature versus nurture
innate . Even if this view is wrong, and there is no innate knowledge about the world present in the brain at birth, babies certainly learn about the world very fast indeed. Further, the kinds of information that they learn appears to be ‘constrained’. Some types of information are learned more easily. For example, causal relations appear to be learned particularly easily by babies. This may suggest that certain aspects of the external world are prioritized for learning. Internal ‘constraints on learning’ would govern these priorities, helping to determine
Uta Frith
A Very Short Introduction
Uta Frith
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5. Social communication: the heart of the matter
Uta Frith
in
6. Seeing the world differently
Ian Hargreaves
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3. The first casualty: journalists at war
‘The first casualty when war comes is truth,’ said Senator Hiram Johnson in 1917, a provocation to journalists about their vulnerability to patriotic pressure that has echoed down the century, from an age of relative innocence in the politics of mass media, to a digital era which is transforming both war reporting and the nature of war itself.
