Cognition and cognitive psychology

Leaders in the field provide an introduction to video games and learning, including essays on game design and game culture.

Based on the ideas of Russian psychologists Lev Vygotsky and Alexander Luria, this book explores methods of preventing or overcoming learning disabilities.

An essential guide to the sensitive topic of cousin marriage, examining its social, medical, political and legal connotations.

This book reviews current research on the nature of high quality learning and the factors that facilitate or inhibit it.

This book explains how the brightest thinkers judge the ways we decide, argue, solve problems, and tell right from wrong.

Based on the ideas of Russian psychologists Lev Vygotsky and Alexander Luria, this book explores methods of preventing or overcoming learning disabilities.

An essential guide to the sensitive topic of cousin marriage, examining its social, medical, political and legal connotations.

This book reviews current research on the nature of high quality learning and the factors that facilitate or inhibit it.

This book explains how the brightest thinkers judge the ways we decide, argue, solve problems, and tell right from wrong.

Interpreting Figurative Meaning explores interdisciplinary debates on the ways in which humans comprehend figurative language in everyday life.

Interpreting Figurative Meaning explores interdisciplinary debates on the ways in which humans comprehend figurative language in everyday life.

This volume provides a new understanding of the role and structure of viewpoint in cognition and communication.

This volume provides a new understanding of the role and structure of viewpoint in cognition and communication.

In this previously unpublished series of interviews, Chomsky discusses his iconoclastic and important ideas concerning language, human nature and politics.

Describes fundamental differences in learning beliefs between the Western mind model and the East Asian virtue model of learning.

Describes fundamental differences in learning beliefs between the Western mind model and the East Asian virtue model of learning.

In this previously unpublished series of interviews, Chomsky discusses his iconoclastic and important ideas concerning language, human nature and politics.

Reviews the most important topics in current primatology using research on the long-studied Arashiyama population of Japanese macaques.

This book addresses the difference between the mental processes of animals and those of the human mind.

This book addresses the difference between the mental processes of animals and those of the human mind.

Reviews the most important topics in current primatology using research on the long-studied Arashiyama population of Japanese macaques.

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

Explores the long-term studies at Mahale, Tanzania and the important insights they have provided into wild chimpanzee behaviour and ecology.

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

Explores the long-term studies at Mahale, Tanzania and the important insights they have provided into wild chimpanzee behaviour and ecology.

This unique book presents current research on how young children perceive and think about their own and others'' bodies.

This unique book presents current research on how young children perceive and think about their own and others'' bodies.

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

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

This nearly one-million-word volume provides an up-to-date and accessible reference resource on all major aspects of speech and language.

This nearly one-million-word volume provides an up-to-date and accessible reference resource on all major aspects of speech and language.

Shows how to apprehend inner experience in high fidelity, demonstrating that such apprehension can be fascinating and of fundamental importance.

This book describes the conceptual and linguistic underpinnings of narrative interpretation.

Shows how to apprehend inner experience in high fidelity, demonstrating that such apprehension can be fascinating and of fundamental importance.

This book describes the conceptual and linguistic underpinnings of narrative interpretation.

This book comprehensively examines children''s ideas about death, both biological and religious.

This book comprehensively examines children''s ideas about death, both biological and religious.

In this volume, cognitive scientist Stellan Ohlsson presents a unified theory of the mind''s response to complex, turbulent environments.

In this volume, cognitive scientist Stellan Ohlsson presents a unified theory of the mind''s response to complex, turbulent environments.

This volume provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date compendium of theory and research in the field of human intelligence.

This volume provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date compendium of theory and research in the field of human intelligence.

This collection provides readers with a comprehensive overview of the American federal criminal justice system.

This book focusses on the theory and application of 'time perspective theory'.

This book argues that the science of reasoning will prove most useful if focused on studying what human reasoning does best - understanding people.

Belief change lies at the heart of all human aspirations.

This book examines how early modern and recently emerging theories of consciousness and cognitive science help us to re-imagine our engagements with Shakespeare in text and performance.

This book breaks new ground towards an understanding of the mental processes involved in presupposition, the comprehension of information taken for granted.

This book identifies the 'cognitive humanities' with new approaches to literature and culture that engage with recent theories of the embodied mind in cognitive science.

This book presents a theory of the self whose core principle is that the consciousness of the self is a process of self-representing that runs throughout our life.

Rapid advances in cognitive neuroscience and converging technologies have led to a vigorous debate over cognitive enhancement.