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Introduction  

Paul Strohm

in Conscience: A Very Short Introduction

Introduction

3. Attending  

Richard Passingham

in Cognitive Neuroscience: A Very Short Introduction

3. Attending Questions 1. Why do some patients neglect things to their left after a stroke?

5. The sources of happiness  

Daniel M. Haybron

in Happiness: A Very Short Introduction

5. The sources of happiness

8. A good life  

Daniel M. Haybron

in Happiness: A Very Short Introduction

8. A good life

2. Learning about the outside world  

Usha Goswami

in Child Psychology: A Very Short Introduction

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

5. Social communication: the heart of the matter  

Uta Frith

in Autism: A Very Short Introduction

5. Social communication: the heart of the matter

6. Seeing the world differently  

Uta Frith

in Autism: A Very Short Introduction

6. Seeing the world differently

3. The first casualty: journalists at war  

Ian Hargreaves

in Journalism: A Very Short Introduction (2nd edn)

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.