Cognition and cognitive psychology

This important volume brings together significant findings on the neural bases of spoken language -its processing, use, and organization, including its phylogenetic roots.

The notion of stratification has played an important role in linguistics and evolutionary studies for some time, but its role in cognitive science has not yet been well articulated and identified.

A new approach to linguistic meaning and grammatical constructions based on simple geometric principles.

Motivational science is one of the fastest-growing areas of research in social psychology, incorporating multiple perspectives from social-personality research.

This book offers a unique perspective on Emotional Intelligence (EI) research in Eastern Europe, analyzing current trends in the research and application of EI in a region with a distinct socio-political history.

Enriching Vocabulary in Secondary Schools explores the importance of vocabulary for academic, social, emotional, and employment outcomes.

This book is designed to be an introduction to the theories of measurement and meaningfulness, and not a comprehensive study of those topics.

First published in 1978.

An exploration of consciousness in all matter--from quantum to cosmos *; Outlines theories of consciousness in ancient and modern philosophy from before Plato to Alfred North Whitehead *; Reveals the importance of understanding mind-in-matter for our relationships with the environment, with other people, even with ourselves Are rocks conscious?

The concept behind this book is to take a holistic view of food texture, starting with the determination of food texture, its perception in the mouth, and its measurement by both sensory and instrumental methods, and to examine the relation between them.

Although current debates in epistemology and philosophy of mind show a renewed interest in perceptual illusions, there is no systematic work in the philosophy of perception and in the psychology of perception with respect to the concept of illusion and the relation between illusion and error.

A Practical Guide to Finding Treatments That Work for People with Autism provides a logical, culturally sensitive, and values-based resource to aid practitioners in making informed decisions on the most effective treatment for any given client at any given time.

This is a history of the Norwegian Intelligence Service (NIS) during the Cold War, based on its secret archives.

This volume is the 10th in the Studies in Perception and Action series and contains research presented at the 15th International Conference on Perception and Action (ICPA) meeting in the summer of 2009.

This volume is a selection of Broome's recent papers on normativity, rationality, and reasoning.

Community music around the world reflects the growing and diverse ways humans collectivise and express themselves in ways that articulate our cultural, social, and environmental complexity.

The Sense of Hearing is a highly accessible introduction to auditory perception, addressing the fundamental aspects of hearing.

This volume, like the other eight in the Current Issues in Autism series, grew from our annual TEACCH conference.

This book examines the structural development of the Secret Intelligence Service from its inception to the end of the Cold War.

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.

Ways of Sensing is a stimulating exploration of the cultural, historical and political dimensions of the world of the senses.

The chapters in Human Spatial Memory: Remembering Where present a fascinating picture of an everyday aspect of mental life that is as intriguing to people outside of academia as it is to scientists studying human cognition and behavior.

Cognitive science is the study of minds and mental processes.

This book examines how technology such as smartphones, computers, and the internet shape our physical health, cognitive and psychological development, and interactions with one another and the world around us.

This book sheds new light on the life and the influence of one of the most significant critical thinkers in psychology of the last century, Theodore R.

This book tries to address the following questions: How should the uncertainty and incompleteness inherent to sensing the environment be represented and modelled in a way that will increase the autonomy of a robot?

The events of 9/11 and subsequent acts of jihadist terrorism, together with the failures of intelligence agencies over Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction, have arguably heralded a new age of intelligence.

How is one to understand the nature of intelligence?

How a million little things are dragging you down, and what to do about it.

With an array of critical and engaging pedagogical features, the fifth edition of Motor Learning and Control for Practitioners offers the best practical introduction to motor learning available.

This book explores thought experiments in Shakespeare and shows how experimental psychology can be found in early modern English literature.

Genius can seem incomprehensible even to seasoned researchers.

First published in 1987.

Our experience of objects (and consequently our theorizing about them) is very rich.

This book combines chapters written by leading social psychologists and economists, illuminating the developing trends in explaining and understanding economic behavior in a social world.

When I heard the rumor that the findings about the central nervous system obtained with new technology, such as Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and Positron Emission Tomography (PET), were too subtle to correlate with the crude results of many decades of behavioristic psychology, and that some psychologists were now turning to descriptions of subjective phenomena in William James, Edmund Husserl, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty-and even in Buddhism-I asked myself, "e;Why not Aron Gurwitsch as well?

The need to understand human social life is basic to our human nature and fuels a life-long quest that we begin in early childhood.

This book is the first to offer an overview of the increasingly studied field of face perception.

This book is the first to summarize the voluminous literature on the development of cognitive, codification, language, and expressive/affective (CCCE) skills from a clinical standpoint.

This volume provides an overview of a relatively neglected branch of connectionism known as localist connectionism.

The last two years have witnessed deterioration in the global security situation characterised by increasing tensions among major powers.

Within our knowledge, the series of the International Conference on Cognitive Neurodynamics (ICCN) is the only conference series dedicating to cognitive neurodynamis.

Prior to 1990, fewer than five percent of domestic infant adoptions were open.

This pioneering volume brings a rarely-studied population--wives and girlfriends of men who molest children--into the clear focus necessary to understand the dynamics of these disturbed families.

This volume of Progess in Brain Research follows on from the 32nd International Symposium of the Groupe de recherche sur le systeme nerveux central (GRSNC), May 2010, and aims to provide an overview of the various neural mechanisms that contribute to learning new motor and sensory skills, and to adapting to changed circumstances, including the use of devices and implants to substitute for lost sensory or motor abilities (brain machine interfaces).

Paired-Associates Learning: The Role of Meaningfulness, Similarity, and Familiarization focuses on the role of meaningfulness, similarity, and familiarization of stimuli in paired-associates (PA) learning.

A practical guide to the assessment, diagnosis, and management of dementia and mild cognitive impairment for healthcare professionals.

How the scientific study of magic reveals intriguing—and often unsettling—insights into the mysteries of the human mind.