Cognition and cognitive psychology

Musical leadership is associated with a specific profession-the conductor-as well as being a colloquial metaphor for human communication and cooperation at its best.

First published in 1981.

The past two decades have seen a surge of interest in the topic of consciousness, with the result that the research literature has expanded greatly.

Recent advances in medicine for resuscitation and care have led to an increased number of patients that survive severe brain damage but who are poorly responsive and non-communicative at the bedside.

In understanding human behavior, psychologists have long been interested in what motivates specific actions.

Cognition Beyond the Brain challenges neurocentrism by advocating a systemic view of cognition based on investigating how action shapes the experience of thinking.

When most people think of space, they think of physical space.

In the thoroughly updated second edition of this unique book, Catherine McBride examines how the languages we know help structure the process of becoming literate.

Originally published in 1987, this book introduces work on the intellectual development of children in the primary school.

The usual method for studying mental processes entails taking words in linguistics -- or concepts in logic -- and establishing the connections and relationships between them.

Plomp's Aspects of Tone Sensation--published 25 years ago--dealt with the psychophysics of simple and complex tones.

The intersection between the fields of behavioral decision research and neuroscience has proved to be fertile ground for interdisciplinary research.

This book explores the history and continuing relevance of melancholia as an amorphous but richly suggestive theme in literature, music, and visual culture, as well as philosophy and the history of ideas.

In 1964-1965, Hans Helmut Kornhuber and Luder Deecke achieved a scientific breakthrough with the discovery of the Bereitschaftspotential (BP), or readiness potential.

Lateral Solutions to Mathematical Problems offers a fresh approach to mathematical problem solving via lateral thinking.

This edition of the Handbook follows the first edition by 10 years.

Embodied cognition is a recent development in psychology that practitioners often present as a superseding standard cognitive science.

This collection of essays brings together research on sense modalities in general and spatial perception in particular in a systematic and interdisciplinary way.

Perception is our key to the world.

Bilingual Education: From Compensatory to Quality Schooling, Second Edition maintains its original purpose of synthesizing the research on successful bilingual education in order to demonstrate that quality bilingual education is possible and desirable.

This is the first hands-on methods guide for second-language (L2) reading research.

The Encyclopedia of Human Behavior, Second Edition, Three Voluime Set is an award-winning three-volume reference on human action and reaction, and the thoughts, feelings, and physiological functions behind those actions.

The examination and evaluation of folk psychology and lay cognition has been carried out predominantly in two domains: personality and social psychology, and the philosophy of psychology.

Originally published in 1990, this title attempts to provide for the educational practitioner an overview of a field that responded in the 1980s to a major educational agenda.

A history of movements and of how we make sense of the world.

With reports from several studies showing the benefits of teaching young children about morphemes, this book is essential reading for anyone concerned with helping children to read and write.

The Psychology of Learning and Motivation series publishes empirical and theoretical contributions in cognitive and experimental psychology, ranging from classical and instrumental conditioning to complex learning and problem solving.

Psychopaths constitute less than 1% of the general population but over 20% of prison populations.

Originally published in 1992, this book presents original psychophysiological research based on computerized techniques of recording and evaluating event-related brain potentials.

This handbook offers an in depth and comprehensive state of the art survey of the linguistic domains of modality and mood.

The Handbook of Cognitive Science provides an overview of recent developments in cognition research, relying upon non-classical approaches.

Social and Communicative Functioning in Populations with Intellectual Disability: A Developmental Perspective, Volume 65 in the International Review of Research in Developmental Disabilities series, focuses on social and communicative functioning with a particular emphasis on people with intellectual disability.

Combining the study of animal minds, artificial minds, and human evolution, this book examine the advances made by comparative psychologists in explaining the intelligent behaviour of primates, the design of artificial autonomous systems and the cognitive products of language evolution.

his book is the result of more than 30 years of experience and hard, T resourceful work by Eric Schopler and his team-first as lonely pioneers, now as leaders whose influence extends as far as Kuwait, India, and Japan.

This proceedings contains articles submitted to the sixth International Conference on Cognitive Neurodynamics (ICCN2017).

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

The Routledge International Handbook of Visual-motor skills, Handwriting, and Spelling explores the potentially controversial field of early literacy education.

Recent cognitive approaches to the study of religion have yielded much understanding by focusing on common psychological processes that all humans share.

This book presents a fresh approach to the communicability of narratives, revealing the cognitive underpinnings of Charles Sanders Peirce's pragmatistic model.

This book develops and details a rigorous, canonical modeling approach for analyzing spatio-temporal brain wave dynamics.

Originally published in English in 1976, the book draws on and extends our knowledge of the process of learning.

One of the more promising recent developments in the study of social cognition has been the cross-pollination of ideas from the fields of developmental and social psychology.

This volume reviews the full range of cognitive domains that have benefited from the study of deficits.

Offering students choices about their learning, says author Mike Anderson, is one of the most powerful ways teachers can boost student learning, motivation, and achievement.

Temperament is the first monograph in 40 years to present theories and basic findings in the field of temperament from a broad international and interdisciplinary perspective.

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

Parental involvement in children's education is a subject of growing interest and recent legislation in both the UK and USA has given formal recognition of parents' rights.