Cognition and cognitive psychology

Gathers decades of research on figurative language cognition to answer the question, ''Why don''t people just say what they mean?

Enhancing your decision-making skills to make smarter decisions is the best way you can purposefully improve your life.

The field of social cognitive neuroscience has captured the attention of many researchers during the past ten years.

Originally published in 1992, this title reviews seven major subareas in artificial intelligence at that time: knowledge acquisition; logic programming and representation; machine learning; natural language; vision; the design of an AI programming environment; and medicine, a major application area of AI.

Idioms have always aroused the curiosity of linguists and there is a long tradition in the study of idioms, especially within the fields of lexicology and lexicography.

Pseudoscience and Deception is a compilation of some of the most eye-opening skeptical articles pertaining to extraordinary claims and pseudoscience.

Jonathan L.

This edited volume presents a balanced approach to the ongoing debate of just how general the "e;general factor"e; of intelligence is.

There are few more unsettling philosophical questions than this: What happens in attempts to reduce some properties to some other more fundamental properties?

The research textbook surveys the field for young HCI researchers who are making their way in the world of research.

Centered around major topic areas of both theoretical and practical importance, the World Congress on Neural Networks provides its registrants -- from a diverse background encompassing industry, academia, and government -- with the latest research and applications in the neural network field.

In wesentlichen Teilen beschreibt die Psychoanalyse eine Theorie des Denkens, sei es unter der Perspektive von Primär- und Sekundärprozess, der Selbst- und Objektrepräsentanzen, der Symbolisierung oder der Ich-Funktionen.

Throughout the twentieth century there had been substantial links between scientific psychology and education.

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.

Published in 1989, Recent Perspectives on American Sign Language is a valuable contribution to the field of Cognitive Psychology.

This volume pulls together interdisciplinary research on cognitive representations in the mind and in the world.

Integrates a neuroscience approach to study aging.

The immense growth of research on implicit and explicit memory is making it difficult to keep up with new methods and findings, to gauge the implications of new discoveries, and to ferret out new directions in research and theory development.

This book tells the story of teaching Kathakali, a seventeenth century Indian dance-drama, to contemporary performers in Australia.

Originally published in 1984, the previous two decades had seen a rebirth of psychological interest in the process of reading.

Media Technology and Cultures of Memory studies narrative memories in India through oral, chirographic and digital cultures.

Atypical Interaction presents a state-of-the-art overview of research which uses conversation analysis to explore how communicative impairments impact on conversation and other forms of talk and social interaction.

Originally published in 1976, this volume is based on a conference held in 1974.

My writing career has been, at least in this one respect, idiosyncratic: it had to mark and chart, step by step, its own peculiar champaign.

The Bible is a collection of 66 books written by many writers over a vast time period, and yet it's the unified Word of God.

Enriching Vocabulary in Secondary Schools explores the importance of vocabulary for academic, social, emotional, and employment outcomes.

Most designers know that yellow text presented against a blue background reads clearly and easily, but how many can explain why, and what really are the best ways to help others and ourselves clearly see key patterns in a bunch of data?

While society has widely condemned the effects on preteens and teens' natural social maturation of digitally enabled communication, such as texting and messaging, and of social media apps, such as Facebook, Instagram, and SnapChat, these forms of communication are adversely affecting everyone, including adults.

According to Putnam to talk of "e;facts"e; without specifying the language to be used is to talk of nothing; "e;object"e; itself has many uses and as we creatively invent new uses of words "e;we find that we can speak of 'objects'that were not 'values of any variable'in 1 any language we previously spoke"e; .

Originally published in 1991, the essays in this volume are written by philosophers who were convinced that Wittgenstein's investigations in philosophical psychology were of direct relevance to current experimental psychology at the time.

Originally published in 1982, this book examines the current status of expectancy-value models in psychology.

Embark on a remarkable journey of self-discovery and personal growth with ACTivate Your Life.

Originally published in 1989.

Published in 1976, Language, Memory, and thought is a valuable contribution to the field of Cognitive Psychology.

How do rebel groups decide how to recruit members?

Language and communication problems have long figured prominently in the definition of mental retardation.

Das Buch gibt einen fundierten Überblick über die wichtigen Fragen im Kontext von Sprache und Denken und liefert Antworten beispielsweise zu den Themen: Wie funktioniert Sprache?

Development of Dyslexia and Other SpLDs is the fourth book in the series Living Confidently with Specific Learning Difficulties (SpLDs).

We've outsourced too much of our thinking.

This book presents a theory of learning new causal relationships by making use of perceived regularities in the environment, general knowledge of causality, and existing causal knowledge.

Design thinking, the label given to the acts of designing, has become a paradigmatic view that has transcended the discipline of design and is now widely used in business and elsewhere.

Research on human judgment and decision making has been strongly guided by a normative/descriptive approach, according to which human decision making is compared to the normative models provided by decision theory, statistics, and the probability calculus.

The epistemology and the phenomenology of perception are closely related insofar as both depend on experiences of self-evident objectivity--experiences in which the objectivity of a state of affairs is evident from within our experience of that state of affairs.

This is the third volume of a three-volume set on The Innate Mind.

Key Thinkers in Individual Differences introduces the life, work and thought of 25 of the most influential figures who have shaped and developed the measurement of intelligence and personality.

Revision Revisited LINDA ALLAL* & LUCILE CHANQUOY** *University ofGeneva, SWitzerland, **UniversityofNantes, France Revision is a fundamental component of the writing process.

The Handbook of Computational Social Science is a comprehensive reference source for scholars across multiple disciplines.

This book is not an intellectual history or popular summary of recent work on consciousness in humans.