Cognition and cognitive psychology

The complexity of the brain and the protean nature of behavior remain the most elusive area of science, but also the most important.

Argues that there is a fundamental, evolutionary link between cognitive systems and evolution that underlies human activity.

Whether you are a student or a working professional, you can benefit from being better at solving the complex problems that come up in your life.

A psychologically convincing and computationally tractable linking of emotions to their underlying cognitions and value structures.

Classical Concert Studies: A Companion to Contemporary Research and Performance is a landmark publication that maps out a new interdisciplinary field of Concert Studies, offering fresh ways of understanding the classical music concert in the twenty-first century.

Nostalgia is a topic that most lay people are familiar with, but, until recently, few social scientists understood.

This monograph from a leading neuroscientist and neural networks researcher investigates and offers a fresh approach to the perplexing scientific and philosophical problems of minds and brains.

What drives us to make decisions?

The Handbook consists of four major sections.

This book examines the dynamics of intelligence practices in the Scandinavian culture of high social cohesion and high trust.

Based on a conference held in honor of Professor Tarow Indow, this volume is organized into three major topics concerning the use of geometry in perception: * space -- referring to attempts to represent the subjective space within which we locate ourselves and perceive objects to reside; * color -- dealing with attempts to represent the structure of color percepts as revealed by various experimental procedures; and * scaling -- focusing on the organization of various bodies of data -- in this case perceptual -- through scaling techniques, primarily multidimensional ones.

Building on the legacy of the groundbreaking first edition, the Editors of this unique volume have selected more than 100 leading emotion researchers from around the world and asked them to address 14 fundamental questions about the nature and origins of emotion.

In the last decade, too many American theologians have been preoc- cupied with charting and interpreting in a superficial manner the move- ments of the newest stars in the Continental theological firmament.

In all cognitive domains, neuropsychological research has advanced through the study of individual patients, and detailed observations and descriptions of their cases have been the backbone of medical and scientific reports for centuries.

Benjamin Meyer performs several psycho-physical experiments to measure the re-adaptation process of glared drivers in traffic scenarios.

In recent years the psychology of reasoning has undergone radical change, which can only be seen as a Kuhn-style scientific revolution.

This book addresses emerging issues resulting from the integration of artificial intelligence systems in our daily lives.

Originally published in 1992.

This volume unites spelling and word recognition -- two areas that have largely remained theoretically and empirically distinct.

It is widely recognized that a person's values will profoundly affect what that person attends to, thinks about, and remembers.

This book examines the relationship between empathy and neoliberalism as it unfolded in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis and through the turbulent 2010s.

This volume provides an excellent overview of the field of discourse processes, capturing both its breadth and its depth.

Behavior Change Research and Theory: Psychological and Technological Perspectives provides a unified account of behavior change theories and broad coverage of application domains and best practices.

This volume features new research about the philosophy of plant intelligence and plant cognition, one of the most intriguing and complex current debates at the intersection of biology, cognitive science and philosophy.

Designed for educators, researchers, practitioners, or anyone interested in maximizing human potential, Motivation for Learning and Performance outlines 50 key motivation principles based on the latest scientific evidence from the disciplines of psychology, education, business, athletics, and neurology.

We live in a world of stories; yet few of us pause to ask what stories actually are, why we consume them so avidly, and what they do for story makers and their audiences.

Originally published in 1990.

This book claims a political value for olfactory artworks by situating them squarely in the contemporary moment of various forms of political resistance.

The way that we assess and overcome problems is an essential part of everyday life.

This textbook provides a comprehensive, but tutorial, introduction to robotics, computer vision, and control.

The mental representations of perceptual and cognitive stimuli vary on many dimensions.

The Handbook consists of four major sections.

An exploration of how LSD influences imagination and the creative process.

This magistral treatise approaches the integration of psychology through the study of the multiple causes of normal and dysfunctional behavior.

Vision therapy techniques can correct not only visual problems, but also cognitive, emotional and physical difficulties.

Science is growing at a pace that exceeds our comprehension.

Originally published in 1978, the laws and procedures governing person identification parades, photofit pictures and the forms of questions asked to obtain a description, had been increasingly called into question.

This book proposes a developmental theory of human mind as a basic interaction system of meaning making elements - so called dualities - progressing in dialectical shifts towards higher self-awareness.

How does human language work?

This volume brings together a diverse group of authors who have been associated with Robyn Dawes over the years.

Although there has been much empirical study within what has been referred to as "e;functional approaches to child language,"e; there has yet to be a major attempt to compare and contrast such proposals.

Visual information processing in humans with intellectual disabilities and in animals is presented, for conceptual and methodological reasons.

In the Handbook of Culture and Memory, Brady Wagoner and his team of international contributors explore how memory is deeply entwined with social relationships, stories in film and literature, group history, ritual practices, material artifacts, and a host of other cultural devices.

Artificial Intelligence and Animal Ecology: A Review explores the transformative synergy between AI and animal ecology, unveiling how cutting-edge technology is revolutionizing ecological research and conservation.

Ever since Alfred Binet invented the first IQ test more than a century ago, we have thought of intelligence as fixed from birth and unalterable-as genetically programmed and immutable as eye color.

This book tracks post 9/11 developments in national security and policing intelligence and their relevance to new emerging areas of intelligence practice such as: corrections, biosecurity, private industry and regulatory environments.

The use of social sterotypes as a basis for judgments and behavioral decisions has been a major focus of social psychological theory and research since the field began.