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The book explores two fundamental aspects of the human mind and
their relation to one another. The first is the way that
information is put to use in the mind. When we are doing a mental
arithmetic problem, for example, how do we bring the relevant bits
of information to mind and hold them there while carrying out the
series of calculations? This is working memory, the subject of an
enormous research literature in psychology, neuroscience, and a
great many other disciplines. Characterizing the working memory
process is now a major part of efforts to understand the human
mind. How we characterize this process depends of course on how we
characterize the human mind as a whole. In particular, is the mind
made up of a number of distinct units, each carrying out a
specialized function? There is considerable reason to say that it
is, and this modular view of the mind has become prominent in a
great deal of academic work, notably in cognitive neuroscience,
with important implications for our understanding of how working
memory works. But these implications have received surprisingly
little consideration to this point. The aim of the book is to
explore this relation between working memory and modularity, first
in general terms and then using a specific modular view of the mind
- the Modular Cognition Framework. The ideas are illustrated and
further developed through an application to language and especially
second language acquisition and use.
The book explores two fundamental aspects of the human mind and
their relation to one another. The first is the way that
information is put to use in the mind. When we are doing a mental
arithmetic problem, for example, how do we bring the relevant bits
of information to mind and hold them there while carrying out the
series of calculations? This is working memory, the subject of an
enormous research literature in psychology, neuroscience, and a
great many other disciplines. Characterizing the working memory
process is now a major part of efforts to understand the human
mind. How we characterize this process depends of course on how we
characterize the human mind as a whole. In particular, is the mind
made up of a number of distinct units, each carrying out a
specialized function? There is considerable reason to say that it
is, and this modular view of the mind has become prominent in a
great deal of academic work, notably in cognitive neuroscience,
with important implications for our understanding of how working
memory works. But these implications have received surprisingly
little consideration to this point. The aim of the book is to
explore this relation between working memory and modularity, first
in general terms and then using a specific modular view of the mind
- the Modular Cognition Framework. The ideas are illustrated and
further developed through an application to language and especially
second language acquisition and use.
This book explores the place of consciousness in second language
learning. It offers extensive background information on theories of
consciousness and provides a detailed consideration of both the
nature of consciousness and the cognitive context in which it
appears. It presents the established Modular Online Growth and Use
of Language (MOGUL) framework and explains the place of
consciousness within this framework to enable a cognitively
conceptualised understanding of consciousness in second language
learning. It then applies this framework to fundamental concerns of
second language acquisition, those of perception and memory,
looking at how second language representations come to exist in the
mind and what happens to these representations once they have been
established (memory consolidation and restructuring).
This book explores the place of consciousness in second language
learning. It offers extensive background information on theories of
consciousness and provides a detailed consideration of both the
nature of consciousness and the cognitive context in which it
appears. It presents the established Modular Online Growth and Use
of Language (MOGUL) framework and explains the place of
consciousness within this framework to enable a cognitively
conceptualised understanding of consciousness in second language
learning. It then applies this framework to fundamental concerns of
second language acquisition, those of perception and memory,
looking at how second language representations come to exist in the
mind and what happens to these representations once they have been
established (memory consolidation and restructuring).
Title: The Witwatersrand Goldfields Banket and Mining
Practice.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe
British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It
is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150
million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals,
newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and
much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along
with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and
historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The GEOLOGY
collection includes books from the British Library digitised by
Microsoft. The works in this collection contain a number of maps,
charts, and tables from the 16th to the 19th centuries documenting
geological features of the natural world. Also contained are
textbooks and early scientific studies that catalogue and chronicle
the human stance toward water and land use. Readers will further
enjoy early historical maps of rivers and shorelines demonstrating
the artistry of journeymen, cartographers, and illustrators.
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++++ British Library Truscott, Samuel John; 1898. xxiii. 495 p.; 8
. 07108.k.20.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
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as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.
Language lies at the heart of the way we think, communicate and
view the world. Most people on this planet are in some sense
multilingual. The Multilingual Mind explores, within a processing
perspective, how languages share space and interact in our minds.
The mental architecture proposed in this volume permits research
across many domains in cognitive science to be integrated and
explored within one explanatory framework, recasting compatible
insights and findings in terms of a common set of terms and
concepts. The MOGUL framework has already proven effective for
shedding light on the relationship between processing and learning,
metalinguistic knowledge, consciousness, optionality,
crosslinguistic influence, the initial state, 'UG access', ultimate
attainment, input enhancement, and even language instruction. This
groundbreaking work will be essential reading for linguists working
in language acquisition, multilingualism, and language processing,
as well as for those working in related areas of psychology,
neurology and cognitive science.
Language lies at the heart of the way we think, communicate and
view the world. Most people on this planet are in some sense
multilingual. The Multilingual Mind explores, within a processing
perspective, how languages share space and interact in our minds.
The mental architecture proposed in this volume permits research
across many domains in cognitive science to be integrated and
explored within one explanatory framework, recasting compatible
insights and findings in terms of a common set of terms and
concepts. The MOGUL framework has already proven effective for
shedding light on the relationship between processing and learning,
metalinguistic knowledge, consciousness, optionality,
crosslinguistic influence, the initial state, 'UG access', ultimate
attainment, input enhancement, and even language instruction. This
groundbreaking work will be essential reading for linguists working
in language acquisition, multilingualism, and language processing,
as well as for those working in related areas of psychology,
neurology and cognitive science.
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