Eye Movements
Eye-movement recording has become the method of
choice in a wide variety of disciplines investigating how the mind and
brain work. This volume brings together recent, high-quality
eye-movement research from many different disciplines and, in doing so,
presents a comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art in
eye-movement research.
Sections include the history of
eye-movement research, physiological and clinical studies of eye
movements, transsaccadic integration, computational modelling of eye
movements, reading, spoken language processing, attention and scene
perception, and eye-movements in natural environments.
* Includes recent research from a variety of disciplines
* Divided into sections based on topic areas, with an overview chapter beginning each section
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Through the study of eye movements we can learn about the human mind,
and eye movement recording has become the method of choice in many
disciplines
Future Shock Future Shock is a book written by the sociologist and futurologist Alvin Toffler in 1970. The book has sold over 6 million copies and has been widely translated. Future shock is also a term for a certain psychological state of individuals and entire societies, introduced by Toffler in his book of the same name. Toffler's shortest definition of future shock is a personal perception of " too much change in too short a period of time". The concept of future shock bears resemblance to the late 20th/early 21st century concept of "the technological singularity", and may have been influenced by Kuhn's concept of a technological paradigm shift.
The Third Wave
The Third Wave is a book published in 1980 by Alvin Toffler. It is the sequel to Future Shock, published in 1970, and the second in a trilogy that was completed with Powershift in 1990.
The transition from the earlier hunter-gatherer societies to the agrarian and agricultural societies is also known as the Neolithic Revolution. This coincides with the transition from the Mesolithic era to the Neolithic era (respectively, the Middle and Late Stone Age). The transition from the Paleolithic to the Mesolithic (Early to Middle Stone Age), in turn, largely coincides with the emergence of the modern Homo sapiens from earlier, related archaic human species.
Nearly extinct in the present-day world, hunter-gatherer societies
(which one might term the "0th Wave" societies) are not recognized in
Toffler's scheme. Similarly, in the classical Three-age system, distinctions are recognized between the Stone Age era Bronze Age, Iron Age,
the boundary between the latter two c. 1300-1200 BC being as dramatic
as that demarcating Toffler's waves. None of these phases are clearly
recognized in the Toffler scheme, in part due to the prevalence of the
latter phase amongst present-day pre-industrial societies.
The transition from Toffler's First Wave and Second Wave is sometimes also recognized as a transition from the Iron Age to the Steel Age. At present, there is no clear delineation of the latest transition, though sometimes the term Post-industrial society, originating from Daniel Bell, is used, in addition to Toffler's "Third Wave society".
Powershift
Toffler gives a new name (
Powershift) to the rapidly unfolding events of the last decades and paints a captivating picture of the future.
Powershift
completes a monumental trilogy on change in our times, persuasively
employing a cornucopia of examples on how information and technology
have transformed business, politics, and society in general. This work
discusses new ways of thinking about change and how it causes the
abrupt transformation of an entire society form the central theme.
Within the context of a new theory of social power,
Powershift
focuses on knowledge and its changing role as manifested in the radical
transformations in business, the economy, politics, and global affairs.
Ellipsis and Nonsentential Speech (Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy) The papers in this volume address two main topics: Q1: What is the nature, and especially the scope, of ellipsis in natural language? Q2: What are the linguistic/philosophical implications of what one takes the nature/scope of ellipsis to be? Each of these main topics includes a large sub-part that deals specifically with nonsentential speech. Within the first main topic, Q1, there arises the sub-issue of whether nonsentential speech falls within the scope of ellipsis or not; within the second main topic, Q2, there arises the sub-issue of what linguistic/philosophical implications follow, if nonsentential speech does/does not count as ellipsis. * This book is unique in that it offers the reader; o Papers on the boundary between philosophy and linguistics, o Applications of advanced work in theoretical linguistics to traditional philosophical questions, o It is the only volume of papers ever published on sub-sentential speech, o Major contribution to our understanding of ellipsis in natural language, presently a central topic in syntactic theory. * This book is of interest to professionals and advanced graduate students in the fields of philosophy of language, semantics, and syntax.
