Cognition and cognitive psychology

The central question in this volume is how to create a society of "e;engaged readers"e; in today's world, where reading is increasingly overruled by other media, such as television and personal computers.

Based on over fifteen years of groundbreaking research, Developing Creative Thinking Skills helps learners demonstrably increase their own creative thinking skills.

Recent work on empathy theory, research, and applications, by scholars from disciplines ranging from neuroscience to psychoanalysis.

This revised second edition of the Handbook incorporates the latest research to provide practical advice on effective teaching and learning.

"e;If a child falls victim to a crime, or becomes witness to it, they may well be questioned by the police.

Bioethics, born in the 1960s and 1970s, has achieved great success, but also has experienced recent growing pains, as illustrated by the case of Terri Schiavo.

The Aesthetic Animal answers the ultimate questions of why we adorn ourselves, embellish our things and surroundings, and produce art, music, song dance, and fiction.

Due largely to developments made in artificial intelligence and cognitive psychology during the past two decades, expertise has become an important subject for scholarly investigations.

Beginning with the view that human consciousness is essentially embodied and that the way we consciously experience the world is structured by our bodily dynamics and surroundings, the book argues that emotions are a fundamental manifestation of our embodiment, and play a crucial role in self-consciousness, moral evaluation, and social cognition.

A contemporary and interdisciplinary perspective on the study of art, connecting and integrating ideas from across the humanities and sciences.

Make important decisions, evaluate evidence, and solve ethical dilemmas through seven powerful decision-making methods.

This book aims to understand human cognition and psychology through a comprehensive computational theory of the human mind, namely, a computational "e;cognitive architecture"e; (or more specifically, the Clarion cognitive architecture).

The book is a themed, mutually referenced collection of articles from a very high-powered set of authors based on the workshop on "e;Current developments in non-human primate gesture research"e;, which was held in July 2010 at the European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany.

How the extraordinary multisensory phenomenon of synesthesia has changed our traditional view of the brain.

In recent decades, the relationship between music, emotions, health and well-being has become a hot topic.

This book is about human abilities and the ways in which people acquire and extend them.

The new field of experimental philosophy has emerged as the methods of psychological science have been brought to bear on traditional philosophical issues.

The cognitive foundations of geometry have puzzled academics for a long time, and even today are mostly unknown to many scholars, including mathematical cognition researchers.

This book reflects on the significant and highly original scientific contributions of Hans Primas.

Animals cannot use words to explain whether they feel emotions, and scientific opinion on the subject has been divided.

This book collates the work of world-leading researchers on deja vu and other dissociative states of memory and presents a snapshot of the state of the art in research on these strange phenomena.

Introduces principles drawn from quantum theory to present a new framework for modeling human cognition and decision.

Language Processing questions what happens when we process language - what mental operations occur during processing and how they are organised over time.

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.

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.

How can we best describe the processes by which we visually perceive our environment?

Examines how neuroscience can inform the concept of free will and associated practices of moral and criminal responsibility.

Why would highly skilled, well-trained pilots make errors that lead to accidents when they had safely completed many thousands of previous flights?

Originally published in 1988, this was the first textbook to review and integrate the cognitive theories underlying the practice of modern clinical psychology.

This volume describes research and theory concerning the cognitive neuroscience of attention.

The first comprehensive study of a communicating person reveals how one inhabits and makes sense of the world with others.

Creativity has long been thought of as a personal trait, a gift bestowed on some and unachievable by others.

Road accidents are the major cause of death and injury among young people in the developing world, and the field of psychology can offer great insights into the many factors that are at play when we get behind the wheels of our cars.

This volume provides an authoritative synthesis of a dynamic, influential area of psychological research.

Although philosophers have explored memory since antiquity, recent years have seen the birth of philosophy of memory as a distinct field.

Different animals have different visual systems and so presumably have different ways of seeing.

This book presents new insights into the nature of the human mind as a product of the brain.

This volume seeks to assemble various works on the ''tip-of-the-tongue state'' and related phenomena.

Bilder rücken zunehmend in den Mittelpunkt der Kommunikationsmöglichkeiten zwischen Rechner und Benutzer.

First published in 1982.

This book provides a scholarly yet accessible approach to critical psychology, specifically discussing therapeutic practices that are possible outside of the mainstream psychology industry.

In Roma Music and Emotion, author Filippo Bonini Baraldi forges a much-needed theory of music, emotion, and empathy from an anthropological perspective, addressing the failure of the prevailing psychological theories on music and emotion to account for non-western musical cultures.

"e;Clashes of Knowledge"e; is the first volume in a book series called "e;Knowledge and Space"e; dealing with spatial disparities of knowledge and the impact of the spatial context on the production and application of knowledge.

Integrated Education and Learning aims to discuss novel approaches to offer integrated educational methods.

At the heart of creativity is the practice of bringing something new into existence, whether it be a material object or abstract idea, thereby making history and enriching the creative tradition.

The Routledge Handbook of Media Use and Well-Being serves as the first international review of the current state of this fast-developing area of research.

The updated second edition of the only handbook to offer a comprehensive analysis of research and theory in the field of multimedia learning.