Cognition and cognitive psychology

The Centered Mind offers a new view of the nature and causal determinants of both reflective thinking and, more generally, the stream of consciousness.

Through the medium of detailed clinical case reports, written by well-respected clinicians and researchers working internationally in the field, Clinical Cases in Dysarthria discusses the challenges, and rewards of applying evidence-based procedures to people with dysarthria in real-life busy routine clinical settings.

With a style that is both detailed and accessible, this new text from Johannes Zanker provides students with a solid understanding of how our sensory and perceptual systems operate, and interact with a dynamic world.

Who benefits and who loses when emotions are described in particular ways?

This book provides an answer to the readers about scientific perspective on learning.

This book analyses the cooperation between the European Union and the United States on internal security and counter-terrorism since the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Quality, as exemplified by Quality-of-life (QoL) assessment, is frequently discussed among health care professionals and often invoked as a goal for improvement, but somehow rarely defined, even as it is regularly assessed.

First published in 1987.

Why does brain size vary so widely among vertebrate animal species?

In the last decade, too many American theologians have been preoc- cupied with charting and interpreting in a superficial manner the move- ments of the newest stars in the Continental theological firmament.

First Published in 1988.

The neural computational approach to cognitive and psychological processes is relatively new.

Owing to its bizarre nature and its implications for understanding how brains work, synesthesia has recently received a lot of attention in the popular press and motivated a great deal of research and discussion among scientists.

A presentation of current work that systematically explores and articulates the nature, origin and development of reasoning, this volume's primary aim is to describe and examine contemporary theory and research findings on the topic of deductive reasoning.

This volume is comprised of contributions to the 67th Nebraska Symposium on Motivation, which brought together various research disciplines such as psychology, education, health sciences, natural resources, environmental studies to investigate the ways in which nature influences cognition, health, human behavior, and well-being.

This book analyses discourses of the use of engagement and motivation in schools globally.

Serendipity and creativity are both broad, widely disputed, and yet consistently popular concepts which are relevant to understanding the positive aspects of our daily lives and even human progress in the arts and sciences.

This textbook offers an accessible introduction to counterinsurgency operations, a key aspect of modern warfare.

Deficits in social cognition and metacognition in schizophrenics makes it difficult for them to understand the speech, facial expressions and hence emotion and intention of others, as well as allowing little insight into their own mental state.

The new field of experimental philosophy has emerged as the methods of psychological science have been brought to bear on traditional philosophical issues.

This two-volume set provides a comprehensive overview of the multidisciplinary field of Embodied Cognition.

To demystify creative work without reducing it to simplistic formulas, Doris Wallace and Howard Gruber, one of the world's foremost authorities on creativity, have produced a unique book exploring the creative process in the arts and sciences.

This book is a unique exploration of the idea of the "e;second person"e; in human interaction, the idea that face-to-face interactions involve a distinctive form of reciprocal mental state attributions that mediates their dynamical unfolding.

For thousands of years, music has acted as a powerful medium for evoking emotions, facilitating communication, and nurturing overall well-being.

In this volume Mitrokhin presents two dictionaries produced by the KGB itself to define their activities in both offensive and defensive intelligence work.

This book examines the phenomenon of silence in relation to human behaviour from multiple perspectives, drawing on psychological and cultural-philosophical ideas to create new, surprising connections between silence, quiet and rest.

This innovative book applies findings from the field of cognitive linguistics to the study of emotions in the Hebrew Bible.

If mathematics is the purest form of knowledge, the perfect foundation of all the hard sciences, and a uniquely precise discipline, then how can the human brain, an imperfect and imprecise organ, process mathematical ideas?

This book proposes a developmental theory of human mind as a basic interaction system of meaning making elements - so called dualities - progressing in dialectical shifts towards higher self-awareness.

This book reviews the potential effect of diet modification, lipids, and carbohydrate consumptions, vitamin supplementation, antioxidants, and nutraceuticals in the prevention and management of Alzheimer's disease.

Over a decade ago the concept of "e;design experiments"e; was introduced because of the belief that many of questions could not be adequately addressed by laboratory-based experiments.

The past 15 years have witnessed an increasing interest in the comparative study of language and music as cognitive systems.

For most people, prism adaptation is an amusing demonstration, first experienced perhaps in an introductory psychology course.

When a parent is nearing the end of life, children can feel like their world has been turned upside down, and they are often scared and confused about what is happening.

This book explores the long-term outcomes of severe and ongoing trauma-particularly complex posttraumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD)-from phenomenological and cognitive perspectives.

Two experimental procedures prompted the empirical development of psychophysical models: those that measure response frequency, often referred to as response probability; and those that measure response time, sometimes referred to as reaction time.

This book was developed to help researchers and practitioners select measures to be used in the evaluation of human/machine systems.

Originally published in 1986.

In recent years-especially the past decade, in sharp contrast to preceding decades-knowledge in the field of emotions has been steadily increasing.

Road accidents are the major cause of death and injury among young people in the developing world, and the field of psychology can offer great insights into the many factors that are at play when we get behind the wheels of our cars.

This book examines India's foreign intelligence culture and strategic surprises in the 20th century.

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.

Published in 1980, part of the Experimental Psychology series.

Evidence Based Treatment with Older Adults: Theory, Practice, and Research provides a detailed examination of five research-supported psychosocial interventions for use with older adults: cognitive behavioral therapy, motivational interviewing, life review/reminiscence, problem solving therapy, and psychoeducational/social support approaches.

Someday computers will be artists.

This book examines how we perceive and understand abstract art in contrast to artworks that represent reality.

This volume is the proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Cognitive Neurodynamics (ICCN2013) held in Sweden in 2013.