Cognition and cognitive psychology

This illuminating book offers an up-to-date introduction to the psychology of language, exploring aspects of language processing that have previously not been given centre stage such as the role of body and brain, social aspects of language use, and mental models.

Richard Gregory was one of the major scientific thinkers of our time.

The role of social context in the various stages of learning to read and write is an important key to understanding literacy, and is the chief organizing theme of this book.

The World in the Head collects the best of Robert Cummins' papers on mental representation and psychological explanation.

Originally published in 1996.

Strategic Luxury Management is a case-rich and practical overview of how luxury creates value and why some firms are more successful than others.

This fully revised and updated third edition of the highly acclaimed Memory in the Real World includes recent research in all areas of everyday memory.

This book presents a journey into how language is put together for speaking and understanding and how it can come apart when there is injury to the brain.

The eighth edition of this text remains an indispensable resource for mass communication psychology and media effects courses.

First published in 1983.

First Published in 1987.

This book explores the meaning and import of neurophenomenology and the philosophy of enactive or embodied cognition for psychology.

How are we to understand the complex forces that shape human behav- ior?

First published in 1987.

Discusses how the memory of traumatic events, such as genocide and torture, is inscribed within human bodies.

In The Gestural Origin of Language, Sherman Wilcox and David Armstrong use evidence from and about sign languages to explore the origins of language as we know it today.

Building upon the theoretical work of Ferenczi, Fairbairn, and Berliner, the author describes four basic relational patterns in the lives of abused children: the reliving of abusive relationships, either as victim or as perpetrator; identification with the aggressor; masochistic self-blame; and the seeking of object contact though sex or violence.

The papers in this volume examine the state of the art in key areas of developmental cognitive neuroscience, focusing on theoretically driven research on cognition and its development.

First Published in 1986.

Although complex problem solving has emerged as a field of psychology in its own right, the literature is, for the most part, widely scattered, and often so technical that it is inaccessible to non-experts.

Many things people commonly believe to be true about education are not supported by scientific evidence.

Current theories about human memory have been shaped by clinical observations and animal experiments.

This book introduces the reader to the concept of functional synchronization and how it operates on very different levels in psychological and social systems - from the emergence of thought to the formation of social relations and the structure of societies.

Originally published in 1959, with some corrections in 1962, the author examines the common view at the time that dreams are mental activities or mental occurrences taking place during sleep.

The Two Selves takes the position that the self is not a "e;thing"e; easily reduced to an object of scientific analysis.

Embedded in a historical context, this is a novel approach to memory involving goals, cues, information, opportunity to learn, and noise.

The Cambridge Handbook of Creativity is a comprehensive scholarly handbook on creativity from the most respected psychologists, researchers and educators.

This is the Second Edition of Nathan Brody's popular book Intelligence, originally published in 1976.

This book, originally published in 1992, encapsulates ten years of research at the Open University's Human Cognition Research Laboratory.

It's on the tip of my tongue, but I can't remember her name.

In Organizational Learning and Performance: The Science and Practice of Building a Learning Culture, Ryan Smerek combines organizational examples with insights from research, to provide readers with a unique and distinctive lens to improve personal and organizational performance.

This book explores the ways in which poetic inspiration came to be associated with madness in early nineteenth-century Britain.

Basic text for freshman composition courses.

Written specifically for those with no prior programming experience and minimal quantitative training, this accessible text walks behavioral science students and researchers through the process of programming using MATLAB.

Vivid stories highlight the capabilities and limits of the human mind in this fascinating introduction to human factors psychology.

The deportation of 1,755 Jews from the islands of Rhodes and Cos in July 1944, shortly after the last deportation from Hungary, was the last transport to leave Greece for Auschwitz and brought to a close the last significant phase of the genocide of Europe's Jews (notwithstanding the death marches).

The Therapeutic Community: Research and Practice brings together the diverse lens of these communities, illuminating and challenging current practice models and research.

In this expanded and thoroughly updated second edition, Michael A.

Nietzsche is perhaps best known for his diagnosis of the problem of nihilism.

A fascinating compilation of research into memory in autism and its effect on people''s lives.

We define our conscious experience by constructing narratives about ourselves and the people with whom we interact.

Originally published in 1992, this title reviews seven major subareas in artificial intelligence at that time: knowledge acquisition; logic programming and representation; machine learning; natural language; vision; the design of an AI programming environment; and medicine, a major application area of AI.

This book presents the case that there are forms of human interaction which should be understood as properly second-person plural.

From Black Holes and Big Bangs to the Higgs boson and the infinitesimal building blocks of all matter, modern science has been spectacularly successful, with one glaring exception - intelligence.

In an age of invasive technology and mass data collection, how can we understand the true impact of surveillance on our lives and communities?

The Aesthetic Brain takes the reader on a wide-ranging journey through the world of beauty, pleasure, and art.

Great Myths of the Brain introduces readers to the field of neuroscience by examining popular myths about the human brain.

This book provides a multidisciplinary view into how individuals and groups interact with the information environments that surround them.