Cognition and cognitive psychology

A user-friendly introduction to brain and behavior, highlighting essential concepts with studies employing modern neuroscience techniques.

A mother of small children trusts her 'gut feelings' and it saves her life.

Christians are hungry for a return to their own tradition to cultivate meditation practices that are both psychologically and spiritually fruitful.

Our words and ideas refer to objects and properties in the external world; this phenomenon is central to thought, language, communication, and science.

This book is the fourth in a series based on conferences sponsored by the Metroplex Institute for Neural Dynamics (MIND), an interdisciplinary organization of Dallas-Fort Worth area neural network professionals in both academia and industry.

The life span of day treatment for children in the United States is relatively short, covering a period of about 50 years.

The Routledge History of Witchcraft is a comprehensive and interdisciplinary study of the belief in witches from antiquity to the present day, providing both an introduction to the subject of witchcraft and an overview of the on-going debates.

Rom Harre's career spans more than 40 years of original contributions to the development of both psychology and other human and social sciences.

How to self-regulate and train your brain's attentional mechanism for faster, more accurate, high-quality performance at work.

The first comprehensive coursebook on the psychology of wisdom, providing an engaging, balanced, and expert introduction to the field.

Challenging current work in communication and social psychology that assumes face-to-face interaction can be adequately understood without attending to discourse expression, this volume examines how people's goals, concerns, and intentions can be related to discourse expression.

This collection serves two important functions: it synthesizes theory and research in the vital and vibrant area of communication and emotion, and it highlights the scholarly work and contributions of Dolf Zillmann, the preeminent contributor to this area of inquiry.

* Winner of Honorable Mention Award for the Otto Klineberg Intercultural and International Relations Prize competition from SSPSI *This edited volume captures an exciting new trend in research on intergroup attitudes and relations, which concerns how individuals make judgments, and interact with individuals from different group categories, broadly defined in terms of gender, race, age, culture, religion, sexual orientation, and body type.

Memory, Consciousness, and Temporality presents the argument that current memory theories are undermined by two false assumptions: the `memory trace paradox' and `the fallacy of the homunculus'.

Cognitive Design for Artificial Minds explains the crucial role that human cognition research plays in the design and realization of artificial intelligence systems, illustrating the steps necessary for the design of artificial models of cognition.

'Painting does not imitate the world, but is a world of its own.

This book introduces studies on infant and early childhood development that are in a permanent dialogue with the psychology of music, the philosophy of mind, and human movement studies.

Our views on human nature are fundamental to the whole development, indeed the whole future, of human society.

Within our knowledge, the series of the International Conference on Cognitive Neurodynamics (ICCN) is the only conference series dedicating to cognitive neurodynamics.

Creativity and design creativity in particular are being recognized as playing an increasing role in the social and economic wellbeing of a society.

There are thousands of books about thinking.

Towards Learning and instruction in Web 3.

Chronic back and neck pain.

Crossing cultures can be a stimulating and rewarding adventure.

Most psychology research still assumes that mental processes are internal to the person, waiting to be expressed or activated.

Employees are constantly making decisions and judgments that have the potential to affect themselves, their families, their work organizations, and on some occasion even the broader societies in which they live.

This two volume set provides the complete proceedings of the 1990 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks held in Washington, D.

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.

Reviews the reasons for and the nature of great ape intelligence and its implications for human intelligence.

The burgeoning of research on signed language during the last two decades has had a major influence on several disciplines concerned with mind and language, including linguistics, neuroscience, cognitive psychology, child language acquisition, sociolinguistics, bilingualism, and deaf education.

Practical "e;brain-aware"e; facilitation tailored to the adult brain Facilitating Learning with the Adult Brain in Mind explains how the brain works, and how to help adults learn, develop, and perform more effectively in various settings.

Dark Emotions is a book about a range of emotional experiences that are often regarded or characterized as 'negative', 'disturbing' or 'dark' as contrasted with emotions that are 'positive', 'pleasant' or 'light'.

Self-Face Recognition and the Brain explores a fundamental cornerstone of human consciousness; how recognizing ourselves leads to a better understanding of the brain and higher-order thinking.

One of developmental psychology's central concerns is the identification of specific "e;milestones"e; which indicate what children are typically capable of doing at different ages.

In Drawing Life, Thomas J.

As the second decade of the twenty-first century draws to a close, the cultural, social, and economic effects of artificial intelligence are becoming ever more apparent.

In The Intelligent Movement Machine: An Ethological Perspective on the Primate Motor System, Michael Graziano offers a fundamentally new theory of motor cortex organization: the rendering of the movement repertoire onto the cortex.

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

This textbook provides an overview of research on the biological basis of memory.

Since the publication of Vygotsky's Thought and Language in the United States, a number of North American and European investigators have conducted systematic observations of children's spontaneous private speech, giving substantial support to Vygotsky's major hypotheses - particularly those regarding the social origins of higher psychological functions.

It is argued in this book that there are three major approaches to anxiety.

School success in the 21st century requires proficiency with expository discourse -- the use and understanding of informative language in spoken and written modalities.

This book unveils the concept of social love as a kind of "e;Karst River"e; that flows through the history of sociology, reassessing it as a form criticism by people in everyday life.

An integrative introduction to the theories and themes in research on creativity, the second edition of Creativity is both a reference work and text for courses in this burgeoning area of research.

Psychologic is a formal system and relationship within which psychological processes are defined.

Originally published in 1986.

First published in 1991.

The need for synthesis in the domain of implicit processes was the motivation behind this book.