Cognition and cognitive psychology

This book discusses how scientific and other types of cognition make use of models, abduction, and explanatory reasoning in order to produce important and innovative changes in theories and concepts.

This ambitious and important second edition of the Handbook of Medical Neuropsychology takes an in-depth approach to the medical conditions and methods of neurorehabilitation.

This book illustrates the link that unites memory, thought, and narration, and explores how the act of telling helps people to understand themselves and others.

This book gathers the papers presented at the XXIX International Congress INGEGRAF "e;The digital transformation in graphic engineering,"e; which was held in Logrono, Spain on June 20-21, 2019.

The book discusses Franz Brentano's impact on Austrian philosophy.

This book offers the first systematic guide to machine ethics, bridging between computer science, social sciences and philosophy.

This is the first comprehensive guide to the design of behavioral randomized clinical trials (RCT) for chronic diseases.

The second edition of this book brings together a cutting edge international team of contributors to critically review the current knowledge regarding the effectiveness of training interventions designed to improve cognitive functions in different target populations.

In this volume, the authors consider how environmental changes affect our social, cultural and political lives and, in doing so, have a direct influence on individuals' health.

This book introduces the reader to the concept of functional synchronization and how it operates on very different levels in psychological and social systems - from the emergence of thought to the formation of social relations and the structure of societies.

This edited book adopts a cognitive perspective to provide breadth and depth to state-of-the-art research related to understanding, analyzing, predicting and improving one of the most prominent and important classes of behavior of modern humans, information search.

This monograph presents innovative research regarding the body experience of human individuals who are using assistive robotic devices such as wearable robots or teleoperation systems.

This book provides an introduction and overview of the rapidly evolving topic of game user experience, presenting the new perspectives employed by researchers and the industry, and highlighting the recent empirical findings that illustrate the nature of it.

Imagination is highly valued and sought-after, yet elusive and ill-defined.

This is a book about imaginative work and its relationship with the construction of knowledge.

This book reports on cutting-edge research concerning social practices.

Nietzsche is perhaps best known for his diagnosis of the problem of nihilism.

Interactive media designers have been discussing modes to optimize interaction design beyond mere usability.

This book addresses the ways in which clinical psychologists ought to conceptualize and respond to the prejudice and oppression that their clients experience.

Max Wertheimer (1880-1943), a pioneer of 20th-century psychology, had a major influence on the development of cognitive psychology, especially the psychology of perception and of productive thinking.

This book discusses the application of various statistical methods to texts, rather than numbers, in various fields in behavioral science.

This book presents an analysis of the correlation between the mind and the body, a complex topic of study and discussion by scientists and philosophers.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the latest developments in the social psychology of nonverbal communication.

This book sums up key research findings, and theoretical and technological advances having a direct bearing on neuroergonomics.

This book explores relationships and maps out intersections between discussions on causation in three scientific disciplines: linguistics, philosophy, and psychology.

This book introduces the Aristotelian-Thomistic view of the human person to a contemporary audience, and reviews the ways in which this view could provide a philosophically sound foundation for modern psychology.

This book provides a scholarly yet accessible approach to critical psychology, specifically discussing therapeutic practices that are possible outside of the mainstream psychology industry.

This monograph presents a clear account of when and how attentional processes can shape perceptual experience.

This book provides an overview of theoretical thinking about the communicative scope of emotional expressions as well as an overview of the state of the art research in emotional psychology.

Old age is currently the greatest risk factor for developing dementia.

This book discusses how scientific and other types of cognition make use of models, abduction, and explanatory reasoning in order to produce important and innovative changes in theories and concepts.

This brief charts out principles for a cultural psychology of remembering.

This brief presents the case study of a hill in Czech Republic (Rip) and its region, and contributes to theorization in sociocultural psychology on three points, along three current debates.

Indigenous Counseling is based in universal principals/truths that promote a way to think about how to live in the world and with one another that extends beyond the scope of Western European thought.

This brief sets out on a course to distinguish three main kinds of thought that underlie scientific thinking.

Tools and technologies have long complemented and extended our physical abilities: from pre-historic spearheads to steam-propelled ploughs and high-tech prosthetics.

Based on a collection of chapters of leading scholars in the field, the purpose of this book is to intervene in current debates on the scientific foundation of psychological theory, methodology and research practice, and to offer an in-depth, situated and contextual understanding of psychological generalization.

This book presents a unified account of the self, based on a network of knowledge sourced from several scientific accounts of selfhood.

Based on a collection of chapters of leading scholars in the field, the purpose of this book is to intervene in current debates on the scientific foundation of psychological theory, methodology and research practice, and to offer an in-depth, situated and contextual understanding of psychological generalization.

This book deals with the complexity of art by focusing on the singularity of the work of art.

The Psychology of Brexit examines the psychological causes, catalysts, and consequences of Brexit.

This book presents the proceedings of the NeuroIS Retreat 2019, held on June 4-6 in Vienna, Austria, reporting on topics at the intersection of information systems (IS) research, neurophysiology and the brain sciences.

This book discusses human perception and performance within the framework of the theory of self-organizing systems.

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.

This book brings together cutting-edge contemporary research and discussion concerning drinking practices among young adults (individuals aged approximately 18-30 years old).

This book presents a proposal to better define thematic relations by exploring the relation between language and cognition.