Cognition and cognitive psychology

A lively and informative account of the creative process and how it works by someone who obviously knows.

This book is about child sexual abuse in India.

Originally published in 1990, this comprehensive volume addresses the central issues of sentence and discourse processes, with particular emphasis placed on reading and listening comprehension.

Stella Chess's many admirers throughout the world have long looked forward to the day when she would produce her own textbook of child psychiatry.

From Fear to Flow explores how personality traits may influence attitude, behaviour and reaction to information.

This volume provides a new understanding of the role and structure of viewpoint in cognition and communication.

We make our life with things, surrounded by technical artefacts and technologies.

Until recently there had been relatively little integration of programs of research on teaching, learning, curriculum, and assessment.

This book examines the nature and causal antecedents of superior memory performance.

This book is concerned with sensory cue integration both within and between sensory modalities, and focuses on the emerging way of thinking about cue combination in terms of uncertainty.

Detection Theory: A User's Guide is an introduction to one of the most important tools for the analysis of data where choices must be made and performance is not perfect.

Oxford presents, in one convenient and coherently organized volume, 20 influential but until now relatively inaccessible articles that form the backbone of Boyd and Richerson's path-breaking work on evolution and culture.

Providing a comprehensive exploration of the major developments of social psychological theories that have taken place over the past half century, this innovative two-volume handbook is a state of the art overview of the primary theories and models that have been developed in this vast and fascinating field.

When Face Recognition Goes Wrong explores the myriad ways that humans and machines make mistakes in facial recognition.

The updated second edition of the only handbook to offer a comprehensive analysis of research and theory in the field of multimedia learning.

This introduction to the role of information structure in grammar discusses a wide range of phenomena on the syntax-information structure interface.

First Published in 1983.

Understanding causal structure is a central task of human cognition.

Advance praise for IQ A Smart History of a Failed Idea "e;An up-to-date, reader-friendly account of the continuing saga of the mismeasure of women and men.

Women in STEM are constantly facing new challenges every day.

Interdisciplinary Collaboration calls attention to a serious need to study the problems and processes of interdisciplinary inquiry, to reflect on the current state of scientific knowledge regarding interdisciplinary collaboration, and to encourage research that studies interdisciplinary cognition in relation to the ecological contexts in which it occurs.

Research into reading development and reading disabilities has been dominated by phonologically guided theories for several decades.

The book "e;Paradigm Shift for Future Tennis"e; starts with revelations that make obvious the limitations of today's tennis, which does not use the laws of modern Biomechanics and Neurophysiology.

Advances in Resting-State Functional MRI: Methods, Interpretation, and Applications gives readers with basic neuroimaging experience an up-to-date and in-depth understanding of the methods, opportunities, and challenges in rs-fMRI.

The remarkable story of a "e;talking"e; chimp, a leading scientist, and the profound insights they have uncovered about our speciesHe has been featured in cover stories in Time, Newsweek, and National Geographic, and has been the subject of a "e;NOVA"e; documentary.

This book provides a state-of-the-art review and critical evaluation of research into 'flashbulb' memories.

Architectural Affects after Deleuze and Guattari is the first sustained survey into ways of theorising affect in architecture.

Insomnia and fatigue are two of the most frequent consequences after traumatic brain injury (TBI).

This clinical guide reviews the basics of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy and presents a quartet of tested protocols for treating anxiety disorders in children and adults.

This book is the first to explore the interconnections between ecology and performance in South Asia.

What role, if any, does formal logic play in characterizing epistemically rational belief?

The need to understand human social life is basic to our human nature and fuels a life-long quest that we begin in early childhood.

¿Deseas ayudar a tus clientes a encontrar un alivio rápido a su sufrimiento y pasar a construir una vida más plena, más rica?

Neuroscience, the study of the structure and function of the brain, has captured our imaginations.

The second published collection based on a conference sponsored by the Metroplex Institute for Neural Dynamics -- the first is Motivation, Emotion, and Goal Direction in Neural Networks (LEA, 1992) -- this book addresses the controversy between symbolicist artificial intelligence and neural network theory.

There are currently several debates taking place simultaneously in various fields of psychology which address the same fundamental issue: to what extent are the processes and resources that underlie higher cognition domain-general versus domain-specific?

Is human creativity a wall that AI can never scale?

Love and Intimacy in Contemporary Society reflects on relationships in contemporary society and the role of love and intimacy in framing lives.

Transcendental phenomenology presumed to have overcome the classic mind-body dichotomy in terms of consciousness, yet, according to progress in scientific studies, the biological functions of the brain seem to appropriate significant functions attributed traditionally to consciousness.

Metacognition refers to our awareness of our own mental processes, such as perceiving, remembering, learning, and problem solving.

Aggression usually involves a sequence of behaviors, reflecting escalations and de-escalations in the form or intensity of the actions taken, which play out over time.

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.

An exploration of how statistical sampling principles impose theoretical constraints and enable novel insights on judgments and decisions.

Originally published in 1976, Volume 3 of this Handbook deals primarily with conditions of acquisition, retention and forgetting, and the manner in which acquired information and motivation combine to determine performance.

This review of recent evolutionary theories on psychopathology takes on controversies and contradictions both with established psychological thought and within the evolutionary field itself.

Combining personal stories of motivation with new research this book offers a holistic picture of primate conservation in the Anthropocene.

Skill Acquisition and Training describes the building blocks of cognitive, motor, and teamwork skills, and the factors to take into account in training them.