Cognition and cognitive psychology

This edited book adopts a cognitive perspective to provide breadth and depth to state-of-the-art research related to understanding, analyzing, predicting and improving one of the most prominent and important classes of behavior of modern humans, information search.

Autobiographical memory constitutes an essential part of our personality, giving us the ability to distinguish ourselves as an individual with a past, present and future.

Originally published in 1976.

The Wechsler Memory Scale (WMS) is one of the most popular memory scales in the United States and much of the English-speaking world.

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, this book provides a stimulating introduction to artificial intelligence (AI) - the science of thinking machines.

There are a limited number of intelligence analysis books available on the market.

This edited volume describes key domains of the emerging research literature linking exercise and mental health.

Language is the essence of interpersonal behavior and social relationships, and it is social cognitive processes that determine how we produce and understand language.

Research on language and communication development and intervention in persons with mental retardation has been conducted at a fast and furious pace during the last two decades.

Motor Control is a complex process that involves the brain, muscles, limbs, and often external objects.

A Life Worth Living brings together the latest thought on Positive Psychology from an international cast of scholars.

An explanation of the main models of memory and the various approaches used in its study.

The book Theory and Practice of Contrast completes, corrects and integrates the foundations of science and humanities, which include: theory of art, philosophy (aesthetics, epistemology, ontology, axiology), cognitive science, theory of information, theory of complexity and physics.

Although computational modeling is now a widespread technique in cognitive science and in psychology, relatively little work in developmental psychology has used this technique.

The field of human-computer interaction is striving to provide the conceptual foundations for designing computer tools and the environment needed to perform increasingly more complex and specialized tasks.

Ever since the notion of explanatory adequacy was promoted by Chomsky in his 1965 Aspects, linguists and psycholinguists have been in pursuit of a psychologically valid theory of grammar.

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

Computing isn't only (or even mostly) about hardware and software; it's also about the ideas behind the technology.

International Review of Research in Developmental Disabilities provides an ongoing scholarly look at research into the causes, effects, classification systems, and syndromes, etc.

Intelligence: Its Organization and Development is an account of the theory of intelligence, with emphasis on its organization and development.

This edited volume is the first systematic philosophical investigation of the complex and multifarious relationships between dreaming and memory.

Comprehensive and definitive review of the field of creativity.

Cognitive neuropsychology seeks to understand impairments of specific cognitive functions in relation to a model of normal cognitive processing.

This book re-examines the common view that a high level of individual creativity often correlates with a heightened risk of mental illness.

This comprehensive textbook offers a basic introduction to phonetics in an applied systematic presentation that equips the communication disorders student to deal with the wide range of speech types that will be encountered in a clinic.

Relating Events in Narrative, Volume 2: Typological and Contextual Perspectives edited by Sven Stromqvist and Ludo Verhoeven, is the much anticipated follow-up volume to Ruth Berman and Dan Slobin's successful "e;frog-story studies"e; book, Relating Events in Narrative: A Crosslinguistic Developmental Study (1994).

This volume features the complete text of all regular papers, posters, and summaries of symposia presented at the 18th annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

First Published in 1987.

An argument that representational decision making is more cognitively efficient, allowing an organism to adjust more easily to changes in the environment.

This book argues that language is a network of concepts which in turn is part of the general cognitive network of the mind.

This book presents four bridges connecting work in virtue epistemology and work in philosophy of science (broadly construed) that may serve as catalysts for the further development of naturalized virtue epistemology.

Teachers view homework as an opportunity for students to continue learning after the bell rings.

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

The United States has taken a long and winding road to racial equality, especially as it pertains to relations between blacks and whites.

COOP 2012 is the tenth COOP conference, marking twenty years from the first conference in 1992.

This book presents a selection of edited essays written by leading international scholars engaging with practicing intelligence, military, and police officers and responding to their first-hand international security cooperation experiences.

Creativity often leads to the development of original ideas that are useful or influential, and maintaining creativity is crucial for the continued development of organizations in particular and society in general.

Elena Atanassova-Cornelis, Yoichiro Sato, Tom Sauer, and their contributors examine the implications of the shifts in power for the regional security order, as the longterm relative decline of the US standing in the global hierarchy of power is more pronounced than ever due to the challenges it faces from the rising China in Asia and the reviving Russia in Europe.

This book provides the latest information about the development of intersensory perception -- a topic which has recently begun to receive a great deal of attention from researchers studying the general problem of perceptual development.

Originally published in 1978, The Process of Question Answering examines a phenomenon that relies on many realms of human cognition: language comprehension, memory retrieval, and language generation.

Animals cannot use words to explain whether they feel emotions, and scientific opinion on the subject has been divided.

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.

Theranostics and Precision Medicine for the Management of Hepatocellular Carcinoma, Volume Two: Diagnosis, Therapeutic Targets and Molecular Mechanisms for Hepatocellular Carcinoma Progression provides comprehensive information about ongoing research and clinical data surrounding liver cancer.

This book focusses on the theory and application of 'time perspective theory'.

Cognitive Views of Human Motivation contains papers that were first presented during a symposium at the annual convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), held in San Francisco in February 1974.

The view of memory use as skilled performance embraces the interactive nature of memory and higher order cognition.

Imagination is celebrated as our vehicle for escape from the mundane here and now.