Cognition and cognitive psychology

This book challenges neurocentrism by advocating a systemic view of cognition based on investigating how action shapes the experience of thinking, placing interactivity at its heart.

The Handbook of Communication Science and Biology charts the state of the art in the field, describing relevant areas of communication studies where a biological approach has been successfully applied.

Why do recent depictions of government secrecy and surveillance so often use images suggesting massive size and scale: gigantic warehouses, remote black sites, numberless security cameras?

This book presents an analysis of the correlation between the mind and the body, a complex topic of study and discussion by scientists and philosophers.

Synthesizing research on metacognition and intersecting it with studies on second and foreign language writing, Sin Wang Chong puts forward a conceptual framework of metacognition and metacognitive knowledge that is employed as an analytical lens to examine junior secondary EFL students' writing proficiencies.

The first clearly-illustrated, comparative book on developmental primate skeletal anatomy, focused on the highly informative newborn stage.

The study of discrimination and generalization in animals traditionally involves stimuli that are simple, uniform, and restricted in time or space.

An ethical and philosophical examination of our understanding of human powers and nature.

Neuroscience of Rule-Guided Behavior brings together, for the first time, the experiments and theories that have created the new science of rules.

Originally published in 1993, this title provided a lively but comprehensive account of experimental and theoretical approaches to the study of human memory at the time.

This volume presents a distinctly multilevel perspective on creativity and innovation that considers individual-level, team-level, and firm-level factors.

Human brains can be seen as knowledge processors in a distributed system.

Bishop and Trout here present a unique and provocative new approach to epistemology (the theory of human knowledge and reasoning).

The ability to learn concepts lies at the very core of human cognition, enabling us to efficiently classify, organize, identify, and store complex information.

This book uniquely identifies the five key emotions that prevent clients from reaching their full creative potential and provides coaches tools to help them overcome them, boosting their productivity as well as their ability to complete and promote their work and personal development.

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

This book grew out of a five-year collaboration between groups of American and German mathematics educators.

Metacognition is a term that spans many sub-areas in psychology and means different things to different people.

This eagerly awaited volume presents Anderson's cumulative progress in unified social psychology.

Originally published in 1990.

Recent years have witnessed important advancements in our understanding of the psychological underpinnings of subjective properties of visual information, such as aesthetics, memorability, or induced emotions.

This is a very unusual book.

'Laurence Alison is one of my academic heroes.

Many patients with stroke, head injuries or dementia suffer severe memory impairment and in many cases improvement may fail to occur.

The modern study of cognition finds itself with two widely endorsed but seemingly incongruous theoretical paradigms.

This is a collection of essays on issues related to the evolutionary design and the practical future of intelligent tutoring systems.

This book, first published in 2002, compiles psychologists'' best attempts to answer important questions about intuitive judgment.

Originally published in 1993, this book provides the clinician, researcher and student with a comprehensive account of the neuropsychology of the amnesic syndrome.

This book contributes to the study of collective memory and the sociology of terrorism by analysing the role of memorialization in relation to terrorism, its victims, and the broader society.

This interdisciplinary synthesis of the social psychological aspects of language use provides an integrative and timely review of language as social action.

This textbook provides a general introduction to the field of neural networks.

The Interactional Instinct explores the evolution of language from the theoretical view that language could have emerged without a biologically instantiated Universal Grammar.

The Electrical Fields of Consciousness: Brain Waves and Dreaming examines neuro-electrophysiology from its origins in the electrical fields of primitive organisms to its roles in the electrophysiologically defined states of human consciousness.

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

Originally published in 1986, this volume was the result of a conference in honor of the 65th birthday of the late Kenneth MacCorquodale, an exceptionally eloquent spokesman for the field of experimental analysis of behaviour at the time.

This volume pulls together interdisciplinary research on cognitive representations in the mind and in the world.

This book updates the Dual Coding Theory of mind (DCT), a theory of modern human cognition consisting of separate but interconnected nonverbal and verbal systems.

This volume centers on the exploration of the ways in which the canonical texts and thinkers of the phenomenological and existential tradition can be utilized to address contemporary, concrete philosophical issues.

Bilingual Education: From Compensatory to Quality Schooling, Second Edition maintains its original purpose of synthesizing the research on successful bilingual education in order to demonstrate that quality bilingual education is possible and desirable.

The behaviorist credo that animals are devices for translating sensory input into appropriate responses dies hard.

How do rebel groups decide how to recruit members?

This edited collection offers an empirical exploration of social memory in the context of politics, war, identity and culture.

As little as 10 years ago, it was believed that memory went from short to long term via one consolidation practice that made that memory intractable.

The senses can be powerful triggers for memories of our past, eliciting a range of both positive and negative emotions.

In the World Library of Psychologists series, international experts present career-long collections of what they judge to be their most interesting publications - extracts from books, key articles, research findings, practical and theoretical contributions.

Where do new ideas come from?

Fifty years ago, enthused by successes in creating digital computers and the DNA model of heredity, scientists were con?

This volume presents a state-of-the-science review of the most promising current European research -- and its historic roots of research -- on complex problem solving (CPS) in Europe.