Cognition and cognitive psychology

This book undertakes a systematic analysis of the workings of ideology in discourse, using an interdisciplinary approach that links language, cognition and society.

What does it feel like to wake up one day speaking with a foreign accent from a country one has never visited?

Spatial Cognition brings together psychology, computer science, linguistics and geography, discussing how people think about space (our internal cognitive maps and spatial perception) and how we communicate about space, for instance giving route directions or using spatial metaphors.

Human culture depends on human minds for its creation, meaning and exchange.

A major new theory of why human intelligence has not evolved in other speciesThe Human Evolutionary Transition offers a unified view of the evolution of intelligence, presenting a bold and provocative new account of how animals and humans have followed two powerful yet very different evolutionary paths to intelligence.

An extraordinary tale, much-neglected by historians, of courage, bravery and eventual tragedy which took place during the First World War in the Middle East.

In this clear and up-to-date introduction, Thomas D.

The Chatterbugs Manual is a practical resource for all those supporting the development of the foundation communication skills of attention and listening, turn-taking and early vocabulary in children.

This is the first volume in the Counterpoints Series, which explores the issues being debated in psychology, child development, linguistics, and neuroscience.

With reports from several studies showing the benefits of teaching young children about morphemes, this book is essential reading for anyone concerned with helping children to read and write.

A comprehensive Introduction to the world of brain and behavior computational models This book provides a broad collection of articles covering different aspects of computational modeling efforts in psychology and neuroscience.

Consciousness seems to be an enigmatic phenomenon: it is difficult to imagine how our perceptions of the world and our inner thoughts, sensations and feelings could be related to the immensely complicated biological organ we call the brain.

This book provides a historical study of the theory and praxis of modern insurgencies and counterinsurgencies (COIN).

The idea for this volume took root during a recent annual convention of the American Psychological Association.

A comprehensive review of all issues related to cognitive load theory, written by prolific researchers from around the world.

This well-documented book divides the process of constructing new problem-solving strategies into two parts: discovery of the new strategy, and its generalization to new contexts.

The result of the second Appalachian conference on neurodynamics, this volume focuses on the problem of "e;order,"e; its origins, evolution, and future.

Winner of the 2018 Western Canada Jewish Book AwardWinner of the 2017 Canadian Jewish Literary AwardEven as the Holocaust grows more distant with the passing of time, its traumas call out to be known and understood.

This book brings together a diversity of perspectives on the psychology of ageing.

A study of hedonism could conceivably operate on a massive scale.

The biomedical sciences have recently undergone revolutionary change, due to the ability to digitize and store large data sets.

This edited volume reviews the latest research on investigative interviewing in order to provide insights on the psychological processes of the person being interviewed as well as to offer guidelines for conducting credible and useful interviews.

This is naturalistic theory of when, how and why our utterances are interpreted as speech acts: assertions, orders or promises.

This unique volume focuses on computing systems that exhibit intelligent behavior.

This unique text/reference advocates a novel forgetful approach to dealing with personal multimedia content in the long run, which is inspired by the effectiveness of human forgetting as a mechanism for helping us to stay focused on important things.

Embodied cognition is one of the foremost areas of study and research in philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, and cognitive science.

This book explores the concept of psychophysics and details the development of the ideas which made the mathematisation of desire possible.

This book presents a dualistic view of the mind that goes against the dominant materialist views.

This collection examines the many internal and external factors affecting cognitive processes.

Thinking and reasoning are key activities for human beings.

The Handbook of Computational Social Science is a comprehensive reference source for scholars across multiple disciplines.

This book presents the latest developments of Systems Thinking in Practice to the analysis and design of complex sociotechnical systems.

Der Band schließt an die erfolgreichen Buchreihe des Autorenteams an und enthält Übungseinheiten speziell für ältere Menschen mit Gedächtnisstörungen und stärkeren Beeinträchtigungen sowie für bereits an Alzheimer erkrankte Personen.

This Element examines visual perception in the context of activities that involve moving about in complex, dynamic environments.

What impact can video games have on us as players?

This book tackles the challenging question which mathematical formalisms and possibly new physical notions should be developed for quantitatively describing human cognition and behavior, in addition to the ones already developed in the physical and cognitive sciences.

Gualtiero Piccinini articulates and defends a mechanistic account of concrete, or physical, computation.

This collection provides a transnational, interdisciplinary perspective on artistic responses to war from 1914 to the present, analysing a broad selection of the rich, complex body of work which has emerged in response to conflicts since the Great War.

The nature of truth is a current preoccupation both in political and social debates.

This book studies the human ability to process information in digital environments, focusing on how technologies can be designed to help human attention.

A textbook that lays down the foundational principles for understanding social neuroscienceHumans, like many other animals, are a highly social species.

Neuropsychiatric problems after critical illness are receiving increasing attention, particularly in the critical care medicine literature, but mental health and primary care clinicians should also be interested in these common problems, given the growing number of critical illness survivors who need care.

Faith Through the Prism of Psychology introduces readers to the structure and function of the inherent ability of our Self to invest objects with reality - existentialization (EXON).

This concise volume addresses the question of whether or not language, and its structure in literary discourses, determines individuals' mental "e;vision,"e; employing an innovative cross-disciplinary approach using readers' drawings of their mental imagery during reading.

This practical guide explains the use of randomization tests and provides example designs and macros for implementation in IBM SPSS and Excel.

Max Wertheimer (1880-1943), a pioneer of 20th-century psychology, had a major influence on the development of cognitive psychology, especially the psychology of perception and of productive thinking.

Coping with spatial expressions in a plausible manner is a crucial problem in a number of research fields, specifically cognitive science, artificial intelligence, psychology, and linguistics.