Cognition and cognitive psychology

This two-volume set provides a comprehensive overview of the multidisciplinary field of Embodied Cognition.

A new model for smarter creativityInnovators and creators work in cultural, economic, and social contexts that shape their work.

The Power of Interest for Motivation and Engagement describes the benefits of interest for people of all ages.

This book sets out the big data landscape, comprising data abundance, digital connectivity and ubiquitous technology, and shows how the big data landscape and the emerging technologies it fuels are impacting national security.

Forms of Emotion analyses how drama, theatre and contemporary performance present emotion and its human and nonhuman diversity.

Our online interactions create new forms of community and knowledge, reshaping who we are as individuals and as a society.

With limited empirical research available on online teaching across cultures especially with Native and Hispanic American students, this book will present the findings of a two-year, Spencer-funded study in creating an inclusive (i.

Ten years ago, the hegemonic idea was that language was a kind of independent module within the mind, a sort of "e;print-out"e; of whatever cognitive activity was taking place, but without any influence whatsoever in that activity.

The ability to produce and understand referring expressions is basic to human language use and human cognition.

Ethical Humans questions how philosophy and social theory can help us to engage the everyday moral realities of living, working, loving, learning and dying in new capitalism.

Although current views of cognitive development owe a great deal to Jean Piaget, this field has undergone profound change in the years since Piaget's death.

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

This book defines the emerging field of Active Perception which calls for studying perception coupled with action.

Our longstanding view of memory and remembering is in the midst of a profound transformation.

The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Individual Differences provides a thorough, in-depth discussion of the theory, research, and pedagogy pertaining to the role individual difference (ID) factors play in second language acquisition (SLA).

This book offers readers a collection of 50 short chapter entries on topics in the philosophy of language.

This book argues that the science of reasoning will prove most useful if focused on studying what human reasoning does best - understanding people.

What determines why some countries succeed and others fall behind?

Time pervades every aspect of people's lives.

This authoritative collection goes beyond economic statistics and probability data to offer a robust psychological understanding of risk perception and risk taking behavior.

This book examines how people learn from words and graphics and provides 15 evidence-based principles for designing multimedia instruction.

This book brings together the study of self-reflective fiction and the contemporary 4E theories of cognition in order to challenge existing cognitive-theoretical models and approaches to literary phenomena.

Originally published in 1993, the study of cognitive development in children had moved from a focus on the intellectual processes of the individual studied in relative isolation, as in the classic work of Piaget, to a concern in the 1970s and 1980s with social cognition characterized by Vygotsky's views.

This volume adds new dimension and organization to the literature of touch and the hand, covering a diversity of topics surrounding the perception and cognition of touch in relation to the hand.

A richly rewarding vision of the burgeoning interdisciplinary field of somaesthetics, with fourteen essays by the originator of the field.

This volume aims to contribute to the integration of three traditions that have remained separate in psychology.

This is the first major textbook to offer a truly comprehensive review of cognitive science in its fullest sense.

Dedicated to the memory and work of Lisa Capps, this volume is a forum for scholars and practitioners interested in the typical and atypical development of persons with autism.

Flight from Wonder reports the findings from an empirical study of 45 Nobel laureates in science from the United States and Europe concerning the creative processes that produce scientific discoveries.

Current trends in morbidity suggest that by the beginning of the twen- ty-first century, psychiatric illness may become the most pressing problem in public health in many of the advanced countries.

This book provides clinicians and researchers with the current state-of-the-art on the pharmacological treatment of aphasia.

How can newlyweds believe they will be together forever, while knowing that the majority of marriages end in divorce?

The Routledge International Handbook of Dialectical Thinking is a landmark volume offering a multi-disciplinary compendium of the research, theory and practice that defines dialectical thinking, its importance and how it develops over the lifespan.

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Artificial intelligence research has thrived in the years since this best-selling AI classic was first published.

Presenting the work of researchers who are at the forefront of the study of memory mechanisms, this volume addresses a wide range of topics including: physiological and biophysical studies of synaptic plasticity, neural models of information storage and recall, functional and structural considerations of amnesia in brain-damaged patients, and behavioral studies of animal cognition and memory.

Humans possess an extraordinary capacity for culture, from the arts and language to science and technology.

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

The dominance of vision is so strong in sighted people that touch is sometimes considered as a minor perceptual modality.

This book explains how the brightest thinkers judge the ways we decide, argue, solve problems, and tell right from wrong.

Hypnosis in the Management of Sleep Disorders combines history and medical science to show that the use of hypnosis and hypnotic techniques is effective in the treatment of sleep disorders -- and that this is increasingly validated through modern tools (computers, fMRI images).

Police Use of Force Through the Lens provides a comprehensive look at video-recorded use-of-force incidents and how video influences perceptions about the appropriateness of the force used.

This Handbook presents a broad overview of the current research carried out in environmental psychology which puts into perspective quality of life and relationships with living spaces, and shows how this original analytical framework can be used to understand different environmental and societal issues.

Until recently, the body has been largely ignored in theories and empirical research in psychology, particularly in developmental psychology.

WJ IV Clinical Use and Interpretation: Scientist-Practitioner Perspectives provides clinical use and interpretive information for clinical practitioners using the Woodcock-Johnson, Fourth Edition (WJ IV).

This book focuses on novel design and systems engineering approaches, including theories and best practices, for promoting a better integration of people and engineering systems.

This book provides an innovative interdisciplinary approach to understanding the principles of human thinking and offers techniques concerning the solution of abstract problems and predictions based on those principles.