Cognition and cognitive psychology

Sensation and Perception, Fifth Edition maintains the standard of clarity and coverage set in earlier editions, which make the technical scientific information accessible to a wide range of students.

This book aims to reach an understanding of how the mind carries out three sorts of thinking -- deduction, induction, and creation -- to consider what goes right and what goes wrong, and to explore computational models of these sorts of thinking.

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Practical "e;brain-aware"e; facilitation tailored to the adult brain Facilitating Learning with the Adult Brain in Mind explains how the brain works, and how to help adults learn, develop, and perform more effectively in various settings.

This textbook augments the first edition through the inclusion of a set of reseach and review papers selected by the authors to supplement the contents of each chapter by providing a discussion of research issues and detailed investigation of individual cases.

One of the hardest problems in the history of Western philosophy has been to explain whether and how experience can provide knowledge (or even justification for belief) about the objective world outside the experiencer's mind.

International Review of Research in Mental Retardation is an ongoing scholarly look at research into the causes, effects, classification systems, syndromes, etc.

Winner of the Wallace Berry Award, Society for Music TheoryWinner of the Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award, ASCAPWhat is it about the music you love that makes you want to hear it again?

Do general-purpose creative-thinking skills -- skills like divergent thinking, which is touted as an important component of creative thinking no matter what the task domain -- actually make much of a contribution to creative performance?

Thinking and reasoning are key activities for human beings.

This book brings together a number of essays that are optimistic about the ways certain neuroscientific insights might advance philosophical ethics, and other essays that are more circumspect about the relevance of neuroscience to philosophical ethics.

First published in 1984.

Written by eminent psychologist Bernard J.

This book combines a scholarly introduction with state-of-the-art research in the characterization of Internet addiction.

This book explores how and why humans are motivated to act in the ways that they do.

Tip-of-the-Tongue experiences are one of those illusive oddities of human cognition.

This book features a comprehensive analysis of the development of shale gas resources in China, with a focus on the potential environmental impacts that may result.

Originally published in 1988, Anthony Storr's bestselling meditation on the creative individual's need for solitude has become a classic.

Stories are central to our world.

This book presents a comprehensive view of the different theories of risk management in water, drawing on recent studies that serve to inform the way that practitioners consider their own risk practice.

"e;Backs up anecdotal studies of creativity with up-to-date Information about the latest research into brain function .

Psychology of Learning and Motivation publishes empirical and theoretical contributions in cognitive and experimental psychology, ranging from classical and instrumental conditioning to complex learning and problem solving.

Every human being is aware of the flow of time.

The power of odors to unlock human memory is celebrated in literature and anecdote, but poorly documented by science.

Originally published in 1978, this seventh volume of an international series continues the objective to increase and disseminate scientific knowledge in the area of human attention, performance and information processing, and to foster international communication in this area.

This book gathers a selection of refereed papers presented at the 8th International Conference on Kansei Engineering and Emotion Research 2020 (KEER 2020), which was held in Tokyo, Japan, 7-9 September 2020.

In this volume, Berkowitz develops the argument that experiential and behavioral components of an emotional state are affected by many processes: some are highly cognitive in nature; others are automatic and involuntary.

This is the first study to examine throughly the role of US, Soviet and Cuban Intelligence in the nuclear crisis of 1962 - the closest the world has come to Armageddon.

Heroes are often admired for their ability to act without having "e;one thought too many,"e; as Bernard Williams put it.

This book explores the evolutionary and cognitive foundations of human communication, focusing on narrative as its distinctive dimension.

Introduction to Transpersonal Psychology: Bridging Spirit and Science provides an accessible and engaging introduction to this complex and evolving field.

This book is a newly revised version of the highly influential text, Rational Emotive Behavioral Approaches to Childhood Disorders: Theory, Practice and Research, based on an earlier volume by Bernard and Ellis.

From Pascal to contemporary anxieties about attention, we have constantly been urged to avoid distraction if we want to live and work better.

The Multilingual Mind explores, within a processing perspective, how languages share space and interact in our minds.

Now in its fourth edition, this highly popular text is the definitive introduction to consciousness, exploring the key theories and evidence in consciousness studies ranging from neuroscience and psychology to quantum theories and philosophy.

Analyses Fijian hierarchy and its constitution in everyday ritual behaviour.

In the World Library of Psychologists series, international experts present career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces-extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, and their major practical theoretical contributions.

For the previous 6 years before publication, Office of Naval Research (ONR) had been conducting a thematically oriented contract research program aimed, in large part, at developing the kind of broad theoretical framework necessary for a workable process interpretation of aptitude, learning, and performance.

Das Buch gibt einen fundierten Überblick über die wichtigen Fragen im Kontext von Sprache und Denken und liefert Antworten beispielsweise zu den Themen: Wie funktioniert Sprache?

The 21st Century Cold War is a multidisciplinary approach to understanding the pattern of Russian interference in the internal affairs of other nations, suggesting that what in the Cold War was a simple conflict of East vs.

Daydreaming, our ability to give 'to airy nothing a local habitation and a name', remains one of the least understood aspects of human behaviour.

This book constitutes a clear, comprehensive, up-to-date introduction to the basic principles of psychological and educational assessment that underlie effective clinical decisions about childhood language disorders.

What makes some experiences more memorable than others?

This monograph is an extension of the earlier monographs dealing with the application of the new modified involuted manifold model.

This is a collection of chapters by some of the most influential memory researchers.

This accessible book explores the nature and importance of kinaesthesia, considering how action, agency and movement intertwine and are fundamental in feeling embodied in the world.

Our world and bodies are becoming increasingly polluted with chemicals capable of interfering with our hormones and thus, possibly, our present and future neural and mental health.

This book addresses an intriguing question: are our decisions rational?