Cognition and cognitive psychology

This volume provides a tutorial review and evaluation of scientific research on the accuracy and reliability of eyewitness identification.

In the general study of speech and phonetics, vowels have stood in second place to consonants.

In the general study of speech and phonetics, vowels have stood in second place to consonants.

A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2013!

A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2013!

Is the everyday understanding of belief susceptible to scientific investigation?

Is the everyday understanding of belief susceptible to scientific investigation?

This book collates the most up to date evidence from behavioural, brain imagery and stroke-patient studies, to discuss the ways in which cognitive and neural processes are responsible for language processing.

This book collates the most up to date evidence from behavioural, brain imagery and stroke-patient studies, to discuss the ways in which cognitive and neural processes are responsible for language processing.

This volume examines the explanatory nesting approach in the analysis of international relations and its continuing relevance in the 21st century.

This volume examines the explanatory nesting approach in the analysis of international relations and its continuing relevance in the 21st century.

Working memory - the conscious processing of information - is increasingly recognized as one of the most important aspects of intelligence.

Working memory - the conscious processing of information - is increasingly recognized as one of the most important aspects of intelligence.

Improvisation is a performance practice that animates and activates diverse energies of inspiration, critique, and invention.

Improvisation is a performance practice that animates and activates diverse energies of inspiration, critique, and invention.

This book uses insights from the cognitive sciences to illuminate Kafka's poetics, exemplifying a paradigm for literary studies in which cognitive-scientific insights are brought to bear directly on literary texts.

This book uses insights from the cognitive sciences to illuminate Kafka's poetics, exemplifying a paradigm for literary studies in which cognitive-scientific insights are brought to bear directly on literary texts.

Does the world appear the same to everyone?

Does the world appear the same to everyone?

The development of self- and emotional regulatory processes helps children to regulate their behavior based on their cultural context and to develop positive social relationships.

The development of self- and emotional regulatory processes helps children to regulate their behavior based on their cultural context and to develop positive social relationships.

The nature of mental images and their relation to language has caused controversy amongst psychologists for years, and the so-called "e;imagery debate"e; is still unresolved.

The nature of mental images and their relation to language has caused controversy amongst psychologists for years, and the so-called "e;imagery debate"e; is still unresolved.

When retrieving a quote from memory, evaluating a testimony's truthfulness, or deciding which products to buy, people experience immediate feelings of ease or difficulty, of fluency or disfluency.

When retrieving a quote from memory, evaluating a testimony's truthfulness, or deciding which products to buy, people experience immediate feelings of ease or difficulty, of fluency or disfluency.

Using data taken from a major European Union funded project on speech understanding, the SunDial project, this book considers current perspectives on human computer interaction and argues for the value of an approach taken from sociology which is based on conversation analysis.

Using data taken from a major European Union funded project on speech understanding, the SunDial project, this book considers current perspectives on human computer interaction and argues for the value of an approach taken from sociology which is based on conversation analysis.

Based on ethnographic research in England, Doubting Ghosts explores the paradoxes faced by paranormal investigators or "e;ghost hunters"e;: in spite of spending significant time observing and documenting what they suspect to be paranormal phenomena-in a scientific, secular and rational fashion-many paranormal investigators remain skeptical about the existence of the paranormal.

One of the most exciting recent innovations in the social sciences has been the emergence of 'behaviour economics', which extends the notion of rational choice to allow for both motivation beyond self-interest and intuitions that cannot be reduced to the logic of a situation.

First published in 1974, Attributes of Memory rejected the prevalent stress on the structure of memory.

First published in 1974, Attributes of Memory rejected the prevalent stress on the structure of memory.

Creativity can be as difficult to define as it is to achieve.

Creativity can be as difficult to define as it is to achieve.

This book starts from the proposition that the field of intelligence lacks any systematic ethical review, and then develops a framework based on the notion of harm and the establishment of Just Intelligence Principles.

This book starts from the proposition that the field of intelligence lacks any systematic ethical review, and then develops a framework based on the notion of harm and the establishment of Just Intelligence Principles.

Why have people from different cultures and eras formulated myths and stories with similar structures?

Why have people from different cultures and eras formulated myths and stories with similar structures?

This new book is the first full account, inside or outside government, of China's efforts to acquire foreign technology.

This new book is the first full account, inside or outside government, of China's efforts to acquire foreign technology.

Originally published in 1972, the aim of Psychology and Visual Aesthetics was to present a study mainly concerned with experimental work on visual aesthetics.

First published in 1987.

First published in 1987.

This textbook augments the first edition through the inclusion of a set of reseach and review papers selected by the authors to supplement the contents of each chapter by providing a discussion of research issues and detailed investigation of individual cases.

This textbook augments the first edition through the inclusion of a set of reseach and review papers selected by the authors to supplement the contents of each chapter by providing a discussion of research issues and detailed investigation of individual cases.

First Published in 1987.

First Published in 1987.

First Published in 1983.

First Published in 1983.

Human faces are unique biological structures that convey a complex variety of important social messages.

Human faces are unique biological structures that convey a complex variety of important social messages.