Cognition and cognitive psychology

This lively, provocative text presents a new way to understand friendship.

This book tells the story of teaching Kathakali, a seventeenth century Indian dance-drama, to contemporary performers in Australia.

When it comes to relationships, there's no shortage of advice from self-help 'experts', pick-up artists, and glossy magazines.

Musical leadership is associated with a specific profession-the conductor-as well as being a colloquial metaphor for human communication and cooperation at its best.

As the 66th volume in the prestigious Nebraska Series on Motivation, this book focuses on understanding emotion and motivation as two factors that not only influence social and cognitive processes, but also shape the way we navigate our social world.

It's one of the great mysteries of teaching: Why do some students "e;get it"e; and some students don't?

Handbook of Research Methods in Human Memory and Cognition is a compilation of critical examinations of major contemporary research methods in the area of human memory and cognition.

Containing contributions from world leaders honouring Bruce Whittlesea's lifetime contribution to memory research, this volume reflects the current understanding amongst memory researchers that memory is more than passive acquisition and retrieval, but involves constructions, attributions, and inferences.

Originally published in 1965, this title is a series of exploratory essays on approaches to thinking.

When you look at an image, what do you see and feel?

Shaun Gallagher presents a ground-breaking interdisciplinary account of human action, bringing out its essentially social dimension.

The Science of Stories explores the role narrative plays in human life.

In this intelligent and incisive book, Olga Bogdashina explores old and new theories of sensory perception and communication in autism.

An accessible review of genetic and neuroimaging research that explains what determines intelligence and how we might enhance it.

An extraordinary tale, much-neglected by historians, of courage, bravery and eventual tragedy which took place during the First World War in the Middle East.

Some Implications of the Perceptgenetic Studies We should be most grateful to Professor Gudmund Smith for this compilation of studies on perceptgenesis (PG).

This volume offers a comprehensive view of posters presented at the VIIth International Conference on Event Perception and Action.

Most research on children's lexical development has focused on their acquisition of names for concrete objects.

Originally published in 1979, Perceiving Others is an excellent, short introduction to the area of social psychology known as 'person perception', 'social perception' or 'impression formation' - how people interpret each others' moods, predict each others' behaviour and sum up each others' characters.

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

This ebook is now available from Bloomsbury Academic.

Flashbacks in Film examines film flashback as a rich multimodal narrative device, analyzing the cognitive underpinnings of film flashbacks and the mechanisms that lead viewers to successfully comprehend them.

Speech Production: Models, Phonetic Processes andTechniques brings together researchers from many different disciplines - computer science, dentistry, engineering, linguistics, phonetics, physiology, psychology - all with a special interest in how speech is produced.

How brain science answers the most intriguing questions about the meaning of lifeWhy is life worth living?

Is it possible to construct an artificial person?

Originally published in 1982, Learning to Learn in Higher Education analyses the factors that govern effective student learning and looks at the way that these can be improved by changing the way that courses are administered.

The Routledge International Handbook of Memory Studies offers students and researchers original contributions that comprise the debates, intersections and future courses of the field.

Throughout the twentieth century there had been substantial links between scientific psychology and education.

Military Intelligence and the Arab Revolt examines the use and exploitation of intelligence in formulating Britain's strategy for the Arab Revolt during the First World War.

First published in 1985.

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

A book that challenges common misconceptions about the nature of intelligence Satoshi Kanazawa's Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters (written with Alan S.

Human Motor Control is a elementary introduction to the field of motor control, stressing psychological, physiological, and computational approaches.

Psychology of Learning and Motivation publishes empirical and theoretical contributions in cognitive and experimental psychology, ranging from classical and instrumental conditioning to complex learning and problem solving.

The design and functioning of an information system improve to the extent that the system can handle the questions people ask.

This book presents a collection of articles reflecting state-of-the-art research in visual perception, specifically concentrating on neural correlates of perception.

Originally published in 1988, neuropsychology had evolved considerably in the decade prior to publication.

In an era of intensified international terror, universities have been increasingly drawn into an arena of locating, monitoring and preventing such threats, forcing them into often covert relationships with the security and intelligence agencies.

Isurin presents a case study of Russian collective memory as it is constructed by producers and consumed by people.

Measuring and Visualizing Space in Elementary Mathematics Learning explores the development of elementary students' understanding of the mathematics of measure, and demonstrates how measurement can serve as an anchor for supporting a deeper understanding of number operations and rational numbers.

This edited volume addresses the key issues of ethics, war and international relations in the post-9/11 world.

Decades of research on affect and emotion have brought out the paramount importance of affective processes for human lives.

With this volume, Advances in Clinical Child Psychology enters its second decade.

This book elucidates the poetics of Philodemus of Gadara, a first century BCE Epicurean philosopher and poet, whose On Poems survives in extensive fragments among the Herculaneum papyri.

This unique contribution to the field of education offers a comparative look at the application of cognitive theory to instruction.

This book presents the basic concepts of classical psychophysics, derived from Gustav Fechner, as seen from the perspective of modern measurement theory.

Modern medicine enables us to keep many people alive after they have suffered severe brain damage and show no reliable outward signs of consciousness.

How does a person's way of thinking influence their personality, their values and their choice of career?

Written by one of the pioneers in visual perception,Seeingprovides an overview of the basics of sight, from the anatomy of the eye, to optical illusions, to the way neural systems process visual signs.