Cognition and cognitive psychology

This book is the first to offer an overview of the increasingly studied field of face perception.

Body and space refer to vital and interrelated dimensions in the experience of sounds and music.

This book seeks to understand emotions in the virtual world.

Foundations of Sensation and Perception offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the science of sensation and perception.

Most textbooks are cumbersome to carry, expensive to buy, difficult to read, and boring.

Neuroticism--the tendency to experience negative emotions, along with the perception that the world is filled with stressful, unmanageable challenges--is strongly associated with anxiety, depression, and other common mental health conditions.

This innovative new book sets out practical guidance for people with dementia, their families and carers on reducing the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias.

Consciousness has long been a subject of interest in philosophy and religion but only relatively recently has it become subject to scientific investigation.

Causal reasoning is one of our most central cognitive competencies, enabling us to adapt to our world.

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.

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.

Analogical thinking lies at the core of human cognition, pervading from the most mundane to the most extraordinary forms of creativity.

"e;The Student EQ Edge is more relevant today than any other time in the history of our world.

This book provides a presentation of the concept of "e;atmosphere"e; in the realm of aesthetics.

A leading contrarian thinker explores the ethical paradox at the heart of history's wounds The conventional wisdom about historical memory is summed up in George Santayana’s celebrated phrase, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

This book analyzes research on education, identity and community, exploring the ways in which learning can be characterized across ''whole-life'' experiences.

This book brings together essays by experts to illustrate the nature of negative creativity.

This important book provides a broad, integrated overview of current research on word-finding deficit, anomia, the most common symptom of language dysfunction occurring after brain damage.

Originally published in 1989, this sourcebook for anatomic studies in the neuropsychology of visual perception contains chapters on disorders of visual agnosias, impaired object perception and spatial neglect, and abnormal visual imagery.

The sciences philosophy, psychology and neuroscience share the basis that all refer to the human being.

A TOOLKIT FOR IMPROVING YOUR SELF ESTEEM WITH CBTHealthy self esteem does not mean thinking you are the best at everything - it means being comfortable with yourself even when you are not.

People in highly developed countries are getting older and older.

Exploring Immigrant and Sexual Minority Mental Health provides mental health practitioners with up-to-date theory, cutting-edge research, and therapeutic strategies to assist them in their work with multicultural clients.

Motivation provides an accessible introduction to motivation and emotion, combining classic studies with current research and uses numerous real-world examples to engage the student and make, often difficult, theoretical concepts come to life.

Advanced Logo shows how LOGO can be used as a vehicle to promote problem solving skills among secondary students, college students, and instructors.

Vision dominates philosophical thinking about perception, and theorizing about experience in cognitive science has traditionally focused on a visual model.

This text, a collaboration between a clinical psychologist and a cognitive psychologist, offers a cognitive account of depression.

Using Chomsky's minimalist program as a framework, this volume explores the role of formal (or functional) features in current descriptions and accounts of language acquistion.

Neuropsychological and Cognitive Processes in Reading explores reading and reading disabilities within the context of cognitive psychology and neuropsychology.

Connectionist accounts of language acquisition, processing, and dissolution proliferate despite attacks from some linguists, cognitive scientists, and engineers.

The Peripheral Mind introduces a novel approach to a wide range of issues in the philosophy of mind by shifting the focus of analysis from the brain to the Peripheral Nervous System (PNS).

A common question posed to PhD students from friends and family is, "e;What will you do after?

Individuals of Asian descent are a demographic often overlooked in mainstream body image scholarship.

The Routledge Companion to Interdisciplinary Studies in Singing, Volume III: Wellbeing explores the connections between singing and health, promoting the power of singing-in public policy and in practice-in confronting health challenges across the lifespan.

This volume unites spelling and word recognition -- two areas that have largely remained theoretically and empirically distinct.

This monograph from a leading neuroscientist and neural networks researcher investigates and offers a fresh approach to the perplexing scientific and philosophical problems of minds and brains.

Measuring the Impact of Dyslexia shows the considerable benefits of recognising and celebrating the skills of those with information processing differences, explains their unique brain organisation and shows how they can excel as contributing members of society with proper support and guidance.

One of the world''s most distinguished anthropologists proposes that cognitive science enriches, rather than threatens, the work of social scientists.

The first ever reference book on the behaviour, physiology, conservation and biogeography of the dwarf and mouse lemurs of Madagascar.

This handbook presents a cutting-edge overview of cognitive development, spanning methodology, key domain-based findings and applications.

Despite the wealth of literature available on the subject of dyslexia, there is little that explores the subject beyond a single theoretical framework.

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This book, by leading scholars, represents some of the main work in progress in biolinguistics.

The concept of rationality is a common thread through the human and social sciences -- from political science to philosophy, from economics to sociology, and from management science to decision analysis.

This book examines the dynamics of terrorist financing, including a discussion about the importance of money from both the terrorist and the counter-terrorist perspective.