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Multisensory Control of Movement (Oxford Science Publications)
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The relationship between perception and action constitutes one of the most interesting aspects of brain function. This book takes a multidisciplinary approach to studying the problems of manipulation, orienting, and navigating in humans and animals. Its premise is that control of movement is
based on a configuration of several sensory cues, all providing input. It will be of interest to researchers, clinicians, and advanced students in neuroscience, psychology, and neurology.
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This digital document is a journal article from Cognitive Brain Research, published by Elsevier in . The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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The saccadic response to a suddenly appearing visual target stimulus is faster when an accessory auditory stimulus is presented in its spatiotemporal proximity. This multisensory facilitation of reaction time is usually considered a mandatory bottom-up process. Here, we report that it can be modulated by the predictability of the target location provided by an accessory stimulus, thereby indicating a form of top-down processing. Subjects were asked to make a saccade in the direction of a visual target randomly appearing left or right from fixation. An accessory auditory stimulus was presented either at the same location or opposite to the target, with the probability varying over blocks of presentation. Thus, the auditory stimulus contained probabilistic information about the target location (interstimulus contingency). A certain percentage of the trials were catch trials in which the auditory accompanying stimulus (Experiment 1) or the visual target (Experiment 2) was presented alone and the subjects were asked to withhold their response. In particular with visual catch trials, varying the predictability of target location resulted in reaction time facilitation in the bimodal trials, with both high (80%) and low predictability (20%), but only when both stimuli were presented within a small time window (40 ms). As subjects could not possibly follow the task instructions in this short period explicitly, we conclude that they utilized the interstimulus contingency information implicitly, thus revealing an extremely fast involuntary top-down control on saccadic eye movements.
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Effective Leadership in Adventure Programming, Second Edition, explains how the key elements of leadership work in theory and practice, and it helps train the next generation of adventure leaders—training that is paramount to developing the field.
Through this text, readers will enhance their understanding of this rapidly growing profession. Renowned authors Simon Priest and Michael Gass provide in-depth descriptions and real-world applications of the technical, organizational, instructional, and facilitative skills that are essential to adventure leadership. The authors also identify what they call the metaskills that superior leaders use to combine the other essential skills seamlessly and effectively.
The authors provide fully updated content and references, including new information on legal liability, risk management skills, and future research trends in adventure programming. They also do the following:
• Examine the historical and philosophical foundations of adventure programming • Provide safety and environmental guidelines that leaders should follow • Describe the organizational, instructional, and facilitation skills that outdoor adventure leaders should possess • Identify the importance of flexible leadership style, problem-solving and decision-making skills, experience-based judgment, effective communication, and ethical behaviors
The first edition of this book set new levels of excellence in leadership in adventure programming. The second edition preserves the comprehensive and classic nature of the original while raising the standard for the field in the 21st century. The authors' skillful approach to integrating all aspects of effective outdoor adventure leadership makes this book an ideal text for adventure leadership and programming courses and an outstanding reference for practicing professionals.
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The Adventure Leaders 'Bible'.......2000-10-06
If you either are an adventure activities leader, or in training to be one Effective Leadership in Adventure Programming is an invalueable book to have at hand.
If you are already one it is usful for doing self reviews on your current performances, as it at the end of each of the 22 chapters it has a review box called 'effective adventure leaders should', a box containing a brief review of all the main points of that chapter which directly relate to the practical aspects of what leaders should be doing to ensure maximium safety within the group, while allowing the group to get the most out of the adventure experience they have been taken on. - I can almost garentee that every leader will pick up several tips from these sections no matter how experienced they re within the adventure leadership field.
If you are training to be an adventure leader, then each of the chapters guide you through different situations, highlighting not only the actions of the coach but in the ways the clients will react from these actions in different situations depending on there previous experience, motivation, and fears. Each chapter starts with a given relistic situation which directly relates to the theme of the chapter, which is then used to explode open the actions of the group and the leader in the given situation and analysis in small detail, the quality of the planning, leadership, and group advancement.
Due to the nature of the subject it can often feel like heavy reading (which it is), but it does have everything you could ever need to know within it's pages, and so makes it the best book on the subject I know of, and being on an B.A. Adventure Education course, I've read quite a few.
Also highly recommended by me to compliment it is the book Adventure Programming by John C. Miles(Editor), Simon Priest(Editor). Hardcover (December 1999)
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Excellent Resource.......2007-03-26
This book will almost get you further than the text book itself. Great exercises - do them in pencil so you can go back and do them again and again -- answers are in the back :)
Make sure Workbook Edition Matches the text Edition.......2006-08-01
I ordered both books through Amazon. I searched for the text, and ensured it was the correct edition. There was an option provided by Amazon to add the workbook, which I also wanted. However, the workbook was for the previous version of the text, and I wasn't paying attention for the differences. At the time of this review Amazon did not offer the current version of the workbook, but other sellers had it available. As far as I can tell this won't be a mjor obstacle in doing the work as long as your instructor doesn't insist on having the correct edition assignments.
Book Fine, Wrong Edition...My Fault.......2005-09-20
The book was perfect. It was in good condition and packaged well. However it was nearly two weeks late due to problems with a backorder of the book. Plus, there was no picture of the book online, which had some hand in the ordering of the wrong edition. I don't blame Amazon.com for sending the wrong edition, because I clearly ordered it. However, I wish there would have been a picture to see the cover of the book or more description of the item on the website.
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Deutsch: Na Klar! is an exciting, beautifully illustrated, introductory program that actually uses the illustrations. By incorporating lots of authentic materials as the basis of activities, this text provides students with a context for learning German. The realia and readings are very current and give an interesting and up-to-date reflection of the culture of German-speaking countries. Students using Deutsch: Na Klar! practice all 4 skills, but work more on the receptive skills of listening and reading than in a traditional German text. A classroom listening comprehension program and the very engaging authentic readings provide this additional skill practice. Deutsch: Na Klar is very communicative, offering instructors a wide variety of lively exercises and activities to use in class. Because of the variety of practice material and its easy-to-follow chapter structure, Deutsch: Na Klar! succeeds with a wide range of students and teachers.
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One of 'those' books.......2007-10-01
Basically, this is one of those books that is fine for classroom teaching, in that it's perfectly fine as long as you have an instructor.
But, there is absolutely no reason why it should cost as much as it does (it's way too expensive here on Amazon, and $200+ at my campus bookstore!). And, there's no reason why the publisher should make minute changes every year and call it a new edition.
Oh, wait. There is one reason - it's a racket just like all of these kinds of books.
Completely Useless, unless it's all you have........2005-01-19
There's really no point to owning this book if you're enrolled in a German class, and there's absolutely no reason for a self-learner to pick this up otherwise. There's a lot of people who say this book "is great if you're in a class / using video / using audio / great teacher / etc etc..." and the truth is, when you have that much enrichment anyway, you don't need a very good book (which is the only time when using this book is acceptable). And the "listening comprehension" CD? It's much more useful as a coaster. A coaster that might cost you a whole paycheck.
Gripes:
-Never provides ANY blocks of words/pronunciations in chapters (even when it does, it tends to have whole phrases translated, not word-by-word breakdowns like you need, especially in the beginning). You have to learn 90% of your words on your own, and then try to figure out what's going on in the book based on your own knowledge. This is an almost absurd problem considering the price.
-Randomly tosses around different dialects of German with little division. Without a professor keeping you informed, you might not even notice some of the differences. My fiancee was dismayed to learn that I wasn't learning the same dialect that she knows (and her dialect is High German, which is the one you're "supposed" to learn in an introductory class). I think I'm learning a more Southern or Austrian dialect. Is that the book's fault or my professor's? Since the book doesn't help, I have absolutely no clue!
-The CD is truly worthless. It barely follows the book, and doesn't provide ANY quick access to any necessary elements. It doesn't have access to very much in the way of pronunciation at all- nearly all of the CD is composed of text application of the words with little or no motivation except as practice for what you should have learned before (except there is no "learning before"- in the book or CD). Inexcusable.
-No answer keys. The book might have you learn new phrases with something like "figure out which of the following phrases are greetings or goodbyes", and unless you ask a professor, you might never know. Again, it's just amazing that a book would cost so much and not contain something like this.
-How can you learn a language when the book never really teaches anything new, and just keeps expecting you to apply knowledge that it doesn't give? It makes no sense!
Counterpoints:
-It's... kind of pretty. If you don't mind that a lot of the pictures aren't properly explained. And those pictures are example exercises in the chapter... yeah, you'll mind.
If you HAVE to have this book for your class, just hope it's a good class. This book seems near-worthless for trying to teach yourself, which as any student knows, is critically important to ANY language class. Listen in class, and don't expect the book to be of much help.
So what do I reccomend?
Even if you class doesn't reccomend it, try to find the two workbooks/lab manuals that go along with the book. Frankly, I've found that they sometimes do a better job of teaching than the book does. AND they have answer keys to help you check your progress. Sadly, however, the manuals don't come with the necessary listening CDs, so you're still going to be left out in the cold for most of the experience. Again, just ridiculous.
Overall:
-If you're taking a German class, and this is the book, you don't have much choice anyway.
-Which is to say, if you're not taking a class and you're learning on your own, virtually any other book does a better job.
Good book - but not to be used by itself..........2004-10-18
I am currently enroled in begining German. This book is not the kind of book you can teach yourself from. You need lots of help along the way - which is fine. But the book does not stand on it's own. Also - the labs were horrible. I think you can do better for the money.
Not bad!.......2002-07-15
We use this book for german 1 and 2 here at duke. Let me start off by saying that I've never been very skilled in learning foreign languages. As such, I have a tendency to lash out at the books that are assigned the job of teaching me in this area ;) This book, I think, gives the reader every possible advantage in terms of learning the language, I think. The grammar is explained clearly, and in a logical order. I'd give it a 5, but as I said, I don't like having to learn foreign languages ;)
Wonderful College Text.......2002-04-25
This is a textbook for classroom use as opposed to self study. My two semesters of german at Penn was quite enjoyable; the textbook introduced a lot of grammar points clearly and you build vocabulary through studying themes for each chapter. I can't wait to go to Germany this summer. If your instructor chose this book for you, it is worth the price. The workbook and lab manuals are pretty easy to keep up with, so you won't feel too lost learning a new language.
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Deutsch Na Klar: An Introductory Course
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