Cognition and cognitive psychology

Commercial and Popular Music in Higher Education brings together working examples of pedagogy in emerging areas of popular and commercial music to offer practical insights and provide a theoretical framework for today's music educators.

In einer Welt, in der wir täglich unterschiedliche Rollen einnehmen müssen, stellt sich die Frage: Wer sind wir wirklich hinter den Masken, die wir tragen?

Within the last three decades, interest in the psychological experience of human faces has drawn together cognitive science researchers from diverse backgrounds.

As our understanding of the human memory system broadens and develops, new opportunities arise for improving students' long-term knowledge retention in the classroom.

The area of cognitive processing of Chinese and Japanese is currently attracting a great deal of attention by leading cognitive psychologists.

Understanding Intuition: A Journey In and Out of Science explores the biological and cognitive mechanisms that account for intuition, and examines the first-person experience.

What place does consciousness have in the natural world?

The bestselling editor of This Explains Everything brings together 175 of the worlds most brilliant minds to tackle Edge.

This volume represents major research issues in language production today, presenting readers with a picture of the breadth of current research in the field.

This book seeks to build bridges between neuroscience and social science empirical researchers and theorists working around the world, integrating perspectives from both fields, separating real from spurious divides between them and delineating new challenges for future investigation.

Clinical neuropsychology typically employs large standardized test-batteries to cover the cognitive deficits caused by brain lesions and neurodegenerative diseases.

The Handbook of Self-Regulation represents state-of-the-art coverage of the latest theory, research, and developments in applications of self-regulation research.

A comprehensive and interdisciplinary approach to the study of memory, language and cognitive processing across various populations of bilingual speakers.

This book provides a comprehensive account of the role of recursion in language in two distinct but interconnected ways.

"e;The authors are highly respected as leading figures in the field of judgment and decision making.

One thing that separates human beings from the rest of the animal world is our ability to control behavior by referencing internal plans, goals, and rules.

The Elements of Cognitive Aging provides a qualitative overview (mostly using graphical meta-analysis) of the vast literature on aging and speeded tasks-bringing together, for the first time, almost everything we know about aging and processing speed.

A neuroscientist's bold proposal for tackling one of the greatest challenges of our timebrain and mental illnessesBrain research has been accelerating rapidly in recent decades, but the translation of our many discoveries into treatments and cures for brain disorders has not happened as many expected.

This book explains the current issues in cognition, aging, and psychopathology.

This handbook on human multitasking provides an integrative overview on simultaneous and sequential multitasking and thus combines theorizing on dual task limitations as well as costs related to task switching.

Coughing and Clapping: Investigating Audience Experience explores the processes and experiences of attending live music events from the initial decision to attend through to audience responses and memories of a performance after it has happened.

This monograph presents innovative research regarding the body experience of human individuals who are using assistive robotic devices such as wearable robots or teleoperation systems.

Human Judgment and Decision Processes in Applied Settings is the second to two volumes that attempt to define the areas of progress in the understanding of human decision making processes.

Curiosity and Exploration: Theories and Results provides a systematic review of research on curiosity and exploration and is intended to present theories, methods, and research findings and to compare these with other fields of psychology.

Human beings have the unique ability to consciously reflect on the nature of the self.

Although attention, perception and memory are identifiable components of the human cognitive system, this book argues that for a complete understanding of any of them it is necessary to appreciate the way they interact and depend on one another.

Thinking Visually documents the many ways pictures, visual images, and spatial metaphors influence our thinking.

Human sexuality touches us all, pun intended.

Reflections of a Neuropsychologist: Brushes with Brains follows the life of an influential neuropsychologist's fascinating and varied career.

Pleasure is fundamental to well-being and the quality of life, but until recently, was barely explored by science.

This book originated at a workshop by the same name held in May 2018 at the University of Pavia.

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This book presents a unified account of the self, based on a network of knowledge sourced from several scientific accounts of selfhood.

Provides an interdisciplinary overview and critical examination of how individuals are affected by mass mediaThere are few areas of modern social science that are as fiercely debated as media psychology.

How do children learn about the expression and meaning of emotions - both happy and sad?

This book proposes a novel and rigorous explanation of consciousness.

This book delivers an interpretive framework for making sense of today's geopolitical landscape and casts new light on the impact ideology and technology have had on American foreign policy and contemporary security practices.

Alexithymia is a multifaceted construct that is characterized by several facets, including difficulties identifying one's feelings; difficulties describing one's feelings to others; and an externally focused, utilitarian cognitive style.

Our sense that a waltz is "e;in three"e; or a blues song is "e;in four with a shuffle"e; comes from our sense of musical meter.

When it comes to relationships, there's no shortage of advice from self-help 'experts', pick-up artists, and glossy magazines.

Identifies how human judgment and decision making may evolve, develop and be learned or trained.

This book reports on cutting-edge research concerning social practices.

Interest in cognitive development has been resurgent in recent years as a result of continuing improvements in technology and the new methods of research these enable.

One of the most successful methods for discovering the way mental processes are organized is to observe the effects in experiments of selectively influencing the processes.

Originally published in 1978, the contributors to this volume offer here chapters and position papers concerned with children's memory.

Cognition and Instruction focuses on the relationship of knowledge acquisition processes with instruction, including reading, writing, mathematics, curriculum design and reform, and reasoning.