Cognition and cognitive psychology

The years 1945-61 saw the greatest transformation in weaponry that has ever taken place, as atomic and thermonuclear bombs, intercontinental ballistic missiles and chemical and biological weapons were developed by the superpowers.

This book discusses the application of various statistical methods to texts, rather than numbers, in various fields in behavioral science.

Hilary Kornblith presents a new account of reflection, and its importance for knowledge, reasoning, freedom, and normativity.

In our daily lives, in our memories and fantasies, our mental worlds overflow with faces.

This Handbook is the first volume to provide a comprehensive, in-depth, and balanced discussion of ellipsis phenomena, whereby the meaning of an utterance is richer than would be expected based solely on its linguistic form.

In dit boek wordt uitgelegd op welke manier metacognitieve therapie (MCT) kan worden toegepast bij  jongeren (12-18 jaar) waarbij een gegeneraliseerde angststoornis (GAS) is vastgesteld.

An evaluation of Chomsky''s work from the perspectives of linguistics, evolution of language, history of physics, and philosophy of mind.

The National Mind argues that understanding the power of nationalism requires probing into its cognitive and emotional influence on our everyday perceptions, feelings, beliefs, and behavior.

Affect and emotion have come to dominate discourse on social and political life in the mobile and networked societies of the early 21st century.

This book is a result of a symposium at a recent annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association that explored foundational issues relative to situated cognition theory.

This textbook offers a tutorial introduction to robotics and Computer Vision which is light and easy to absorb.

The relationship of language to cognition, especially in development, is an issue that has occupied philosophers, psychologists, and linguists for centuries.

How many words do we use in a day?

In this resonant, scholarly work, Bruce Ross presents an encompassing theoretical framework and overview of autobiographical memory.

In clear, congenial style Barry Blake explains how language works.

The book Theory and Practice of Contrast completes, corrects and integrates the foundations of science and humanities, which include: theory of art, philosophy (aesthetics, epistemology, ontology, axiology), cognitive science, theory of information, theory of complexity and physics.

One of the most pressing questions in neuroscience, psychology and economics today is how does the brain generate preferences and make choices?

This collection considers issues that have emerged in Early Modern Studies in the past fifteen years relating to understandings of mind and body in Shakespeare's world.

The present edition of this book is a revision and expansion of the first two editions which appeared in 1980 and 1985, and in German translation in 1991.

Discover the human imagination - what it entails, how it evolved, and why it singularly defines us as a species.

What are the ways in which we can understand the meaning of the psychology of meaning in people's lives?

International Review of Research in Developmental Disabilities, Volume 54 shares the latest research on the interactions between families of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and service delivery systems.

Perception is our key to the world.

This book advances a new theory of what it means to be an autonomous individual with free will and an authentic self.

Gathers decades of research on figurative language cognition to answer the question, ''Why don''t people just say what they mean?

Communication and language disorders are often considered from one particular point of view - either psychological or neurological.

AI for Knowledge explores the question of whether artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming knowledge access and creation for the good.

Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 4th Edition, is a revised and updated edition of the landmark text focusing on the development of brain and behaviour during infancy, childhood, and adolescence.

This book explores the evolutionary and cognitive foundations of human communication, focusing on narrative as its distinctive dimension.

Human cognitive processes and defense mechanisms, as described in psychoanalysis, bring about new notions and paradigms for artificial intelligence systems.

Over the last several decades, video testimony with aging Holocaust survivors has brought these witnesses into the limelight.

An aptitude test is designed to measure the potential for achievement in an individual, whilst an IQ test is a standardized test designed to measure intelligence.

ICPA provides a forum for researchers and academics who share a common interest in ecological psychology to come together, present new research, and foster ideas towards the advancement of the field.

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

How the extraordinary multisensory phenomenon of synesthesia has changed our traditional view of the brain.

In The Intelligent Movement Machine: An Ethological Perspective on the Primate Motor System, Michael Graziano offers a fundamentally new theory of motor cortex organization: the rendering of the movement repertoire onto the cortex.

Origins of Terrorism: The Rise of the World's Most Formidable Terrorist Groups examines the roots of Islamic terrorism, it's history, and some of the foundational figures in prominent terrorist organizations.

Foundations of Bilingual Memory provides a valuable update to the field of bilingual memory and offers a new psychological perspective on how the bilingual mind encodes, stores, and retrieves information.

This book shows how Shakespeare's excellence as storyteller, wit and poet reflects the creative process of conceptual blending.

Reading is one of the most sophisticated demonstrations of human pattern recognition and symbolic processing skill.

It is evident from recent political campaigns, such as that of Donald Trump, that the deployment of attention is crucial for political outcomes.

First published in 1987.

This book examines the arguments and evidence for and against conceptual metaphors across academic disciplines.

The ability to regulate and control our behaviors is a key accomplishment of the human species, yet the psychological mechanisms involved in self-regulation remain incompletely understood.

Caruso argues against retributivism and develops an alternative for addressing criminal behavior that is ethically defensible and practical.

At least one of every three Americans has used an illicit drug.

This introduction to the dissipative quantum model of brain and to its possible implications for consciousness studies is addressed to a broad interdisciplinary audience.