Cognition and cognitive psychology

This book addresses a central question: how did cognition emerge in human history?

Coping with Aging is the final project of the late Richard S.

This state-of-the-art handbook provides an authoritative overview of the field of perception, with special emphasis on new developments and trends.

By creating certain marks on paper, or by making certain sounds-breathing past a moving tongue-or by articulation of hands and bodies, language users can give expression to their mental lives.

Summarizing is the process of reducing the large volume of information in something like a novel or a scientific paper to a short summary or abstract comprising only the most essential points.

Not all memories are created equal.

Originally published in 1980, this title came about after many late night discussions between the authors during a 3-week workshop on Mathematical Approaches to Person Perception in 1974.

Sleep and ADHD begins with an overview of sleep (normal sleep, sleep cues, developmental phases, etc.

Originally published in 1990.

This volume is a comprehensive, up-to-date, and readable introduction to linguistic meaning.

Demonstrates how our understanding of pragmatics can be informed by the study of speech disorders.

This book focuses on the importance of adaptation and personalization in today's society and the upgraded role computational systems and the Internet play in our day-to-day activities.

The Neuropsychology of Space: Spatial Functions of the Human Brain summarizes recent research findings related to understanding the brain mechanisms involved in spatial reasoning, factors that adversely impact spatial reasoning, and the clinical implications of rehabilitating people who have experienced trauma affecting spatial reasoning.

Informed by clinical case studies, scientific research, and relevant theories, Counseling for Artists, Performers, and Other Creative Individuals takes an in-depth look at the ways creative traits, the arts and entertainment industries, and mental health interact.

This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.

Developmental language disorders (DLD) occur when a child fails to develop his or her native language often for no apparent reason.

This volume seeks to assemble various works on the ''tip-of-the-tongue state'' and related phenomena.

This introductory textbook features expert, cutting-edge theory and research on creativity tailored for undergraduate courses.

In the past few years, there has been an explosion of eye movement research in cognitive science and neuroscience.

Dyslexia: Theories, Assessment and Support offers a broad perspective on dyslexia, providing a range of views from theory to practice which help explain the continued controversy surrounding the condition.

The chapters in Thinking With Data are based on presentations given at the 33rd Carnegie Symposium on Cognition.

How can an infinite number of sentences be generated from one human mind?

Picturebooks, understood as a series of meaningful text-picture relations, are increasingly acknowledged as an autonomous sub-genre of children's literature.

There is a growing interest in what psychoanalytic theory brings to studying and researching music.

If the timing is right, the learning that occurs in the first five years can be a gold mine, promoting valuable cognitive and physical development that lasts a lifetime.

The social character of psychological phenomena has never been easy to comprehend.

How do people manage their environments?

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

Speed in acquiring the knowledge and skills to perform tasks is crucial.

This book summarizes a network of interrelated ideas which I have developed, off and on, over the past eight or ten years.

The Learning Engineering Toolkit is a practical guide to the rich and varied applications of learning engineering, a rigorous and fast-emerging discipline that synthesizes the learning sciences, instructional design, engineering design, and other methodologies to support learners.

Denny Balla stellt anschaulich und praxisnah ein Beratungs- bzw.

This edited volume addresses the main lessons and legacies of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis from a global perspective.

This is a book about the development of action and skill in the first years of life.

Digital Learning and Collaborative Practices offers a comprehensive overview of design-based, technology-enhanced approaches to teaching and learning in virtual settings.

In diesem Buch werden sowohl die Grundlagen zum Verständnis von Motivation und Emotion in Lern- und Arbeitskontexten dargelegt als auch Beispiele für die Arbeit mit diesen Konzepten in verschiedenen Anwendungsbereichen illustriert.

Acquisition of Complex Arithmetic Skills and Higher-Order Mathematics Concepts focuses on typical and atypical learning of complex arithmetic skills and higher-order math concepts.

Techno-Geopolitics explores contemporary U.

Design synthesis is a way of thinking about complicated, multifaceted problems of a large scale with a repeatable degree of success.

The Psychology of Learning and Motivation, Volume 81, the latest release in this ongoing series, features empirical and theoretical contributions in cognitive and experimental psychology, ranging from classical and instrumental conditioning, to complex learning and problem-solving.

What makes us laugh?

This wide-ranging introduction to the psychology of human language use offers a new breadth of approach by breaching conventional disciplinary boundaries with examples and perspectives drawn from many subdisciplines - cognitive and social psychology, psycholinguistics, neuropsychology and sociology.

Due largely to developments made in artificial intelligence and cognitive psychology during the past two decades, expertise has become an important subject for scholarly investigations.

Researching Creativity in Second Language Acquisition explains the links between creativity and second language learning and how to propel the research of creativity as an individual difference in second language acquisition forward at multiple levels.

There have been many books, movies, and even TV commercials featuring Neandertals--some serious, some comical.

This monograph addresses the worlds of social science theory and artificial intelligence AI.

This book collects the lifelong research on boredom by American psychologist Augustin de la Pena (1942-2021).

Life Experiences of Adults with Intellectual and Development Disabilities, Volume 67 in the International Review of Research in Developmental Disabilities, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters written by an international board of authors.