Cognition and cognitive psychology

Exploring the concept of copyright subject matter through the lenses of law, aesthetics, and cognitive science, this book describes the historical evolution of a work into an artefact that qualifies as copyrightable subject matter.

The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Listening offers a state-of-the-art, systematic discussion of the role of listening in second language acquisition (SLA) and use.

Developmental changes in cognitive abilities in childhood have long been of interest to researchers across many fields, including behavioral sciences, communications, education, and medicine.

How is it possible to think new thoughts?

The worlds of new music and historically informed performance might seem quite distant from one another.

This volume considers how children's thinking evolves during development, with a focus on the role of experience in causing change.

Originally published in 1987, Being Skilled presents a new model of how children learn to read, and in particular those who learn quickly and precociously.

This volume presents research from a variety of perspectives on the enhancement of human intelligence.

This unique collection examines "e;the acting person"e; as an important unit of analysis for science studies, using an integrative approach of in-depth case studies to explore the cognitive, social, cultural, and personal dimensions of a series of key figures in the sciences, from Goethe to Kepler to Rachel Carson.

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

Can problems be solved by setting them aside or by sleeping on them?

How to find clarity amid the turbulence of work and lifeWe all wish we had more time to pause and reflect about small decisions and big goals—and everything in between.

This book is about the representations - both visual and linguistic - which people give of their own places of origin.

This book proposes a novel and rigorous explanation of consciousness.

Visuospatial processing is key to learn and perform professionally in the domains of health and natural sciences.

Within an increasingly multimedia focused society, the use of external representations in learning, teaching and communication has increased dramatically.

Neural Models of Plasticity: Experimental and Theoretical Approaches is an outgrowth of a conference that was held at Woods Hole, Massachusetts, in the spring of 1987.

This book focuses on the design of displays and user interfaces for the older user.

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Trotz Ausbildung und Renommee leiden wir in gewissen Situationen unter einer eklatanten Denkschwäche.

As the first book to examine the psychological motivations underlying people's attitudes, as well as why people form attitudes, this volume presents empirical research describing theoretical perspectives and practical applications.

This handbook provides a critical guide to the most central proposition in modern linguistics: the notion, generally known as Universal Grammar, that a universal set of structural principles underlies the grammatical diversity of the world's languages.

Infants and children are the often-ignored heroes when it comes to understanding human evolution.

First published in 1980.

First Published in 1988.

From readability to operability, this book presents a number of experiments to analyze the characteristics of paper and digital displays in reading and writing.

Originally published in 1986, the emphasis in this book is on dreaming rather than sleeping.

Originally published in 1978, this volume provided a broad survey of the latest research and theory, at the time, concerning the potential detrimental effects of inappropriate uses of tangible rewards to modify behaviour.

This practice-focused guide introduces The SmartStart Toolbox as a remedial program to help mental health professionals and adoptive parents promote the educational and social development of internationally adopted children aged 4-8.

This volume explores human-machine collaboration and provides machine-generated auto-summaries of emerging research trends in motivation science.

Originally published in 1985, this book sought to thoroughly examine and better understand a dimension of interpersonal relations which at the time had often proven elusive, confusing, and quite difficult to operationalize.

This book provides a unique and accessible account of current research on reading and dyslexia in different orthographies.

While creativity and criticality may seem contrary to one another, they are in fact intimately interconnected.

More than 40 years ago, E.

Integrates a neuroscience approach to study aging.

We have acquired important new knowledge about the nature and development of perception in recent years, and the insights of Eleanor Jack Gibson have had a prominent role in guiding the search for that knowledge.

In The Human Factor, Kim Vicente coined the term 'Human-tech' to describe a more encompassing and ambitious approach to the study of Human-Technology Interaction (HTI) than is now evident in any of its participating disciplines, such as human factors, human-computer interaction, cognitive science and engineering, industrial design, informatics or applied psychology.

Diversity drives better business results; however, despite decades of effort, women make up only 15% of engineers.

Originally published in 1982, the editors felt that their field was clearly in need of explanatory accounts for many different areas.

The empirical study of consciousness is in constant progress.

The world is witnessing the rapid evolution of its own nervous system by an unparalleled growth in communication technology.

Here, Daniel S.

The purpose of Remembering the Times of Our Lives: Memory in Infancy and Beyond is to trace the development from infancy through adulthood in the capacity to form, retain, and later retrieve autobiographical or personal memories.

This book seeks to re-define the role of fantasy in human life by overturning mainstream psychology's understanding of daydreams as being task-distracted mind wandering by proposing that all waking fantasies function to transform mood states into specific emotional reactions.

BORB provides a set of standardised procedures for assessing neuropsychological disorders of visual object recognition, based on tests developed in the cognitive neuropsychological literature.

The development of the theory of fuzzy sets was motivated largely by the need for a computational framework for dealing with systems in which human judgement, behavior and emotions play a dominant role.

Originally published in 1995, this volume is the direct result of a conference in which a number of leading researchers from the fields of artificial intelligence and biology gathered to examine whether there was any ground to assume that a new AI paradigm was forming itself and what the essential ingredients of this new paradigm were.

This book explores the history and continuing relevance of melancholia as an amorphous but richly suggestive theme in literature, music, and visual culture, as well as philosophy and the history of ideas.