Experimental psychology

Presenting a philosophical and psychological overview of the history of the concept of intelligence, this controversial text does not aim to supply yet another opinion on, or interpretation of the concept of intelligence, but rather attempts to find out how to approach this concept on a scientific level.

A comprehensive and critical overview of the major genetically modified mouse lines used to model human neurobehavioral disorders.

This book introduces a new data analysis technique that addresses long standing criticisms of the current standard statistics.

The discovery of mirror neurons caused a revolution in neuroscience and psychology.

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

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Advances in Cognitive-Behavioral Research and Therapy, Volume 4 comprises a diversity of advances in cognitive-behavioral research and practice.

Advances in Cognitive-Behavioral Research and Therapy, Volume 3 provides information pertinent to the fundamental aspects of cognitive-behavioral approaches to psychotherapy.

Metacognition refers to the awareness an individual has of their own mental processes (also referred to as ' thinking about thinking').

With Beyond Rationality, Kenneth R.

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

Seeing into Screens: Eye Tracking and the Moving Image is the first dedicated anthology that explores vision and perception as it materializes as viewers watch screen content.

4E cognition (embodied, embedded, enactive, and extended) is a relatively young and thriving field of interdisciplinary research.

Quest for Confirmation, the second volume of the series Come Along: We Are Truth-Bound, is a cross-examination of the concepts derived in Volume One, A Dialogue and Dialectic: Bridging the Great Epistemic Divides.

Psychology is of interest to academics from many fields, as well as to the thousands of academic and clinical psychologists and general public who can't help but be interested in learning more about why humans think and behave as they do.

Psychology of Learning and Motivation, Volume 66, the latest release in this longstanding series publishes empirical and theoretical contributions in cognitive and experimental psychology, ranging from classical and instrumental conditioning, to complex learning and problem-solving.

Making a Machine That Sees Like Us explains why and how our visual perceptions can provide us with an accurate representation of the external world.

In the late 1960s and early 1970s David Marr produced three astonishing papers in which he gave a detailed account of how the fine structure and known cell types of the cerebellum, hippocampus and neocortex perform the functions that they do.

Analogical thinking lies at the core of human cognition, pervading from the most mundane to the most extraordinary forms of creativity.

Perceptual organization comprises a wide range of processes such as perceptual grouping, figure-ground organization, filling-in, completion, perceptual switching, etc.

Music's ability to express and arouse emotions is a mystery that has fascinated both experts and laymen at least since ancient Greece.

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

Challenging problems both attract and repel us.

Hypnoanalysis presents a critical review of a report on hypnoanalysis.

Essentials of Statistical Analysis "e;In Focus"e; supports users of Gregory J.

Although much of the hubris and hyperbole surrounding the 1990's Internet has softened to a reasonable level, the inexorable momentum of information growth continues unabated.

Ever since the first successful International Cognitive Technology (CT) Conference in Hong Kong in August 1995, a growing concern about the dehumanising potential of machines, and the machining potential of the human mind, has pervaded the organisers' thinking.

What produces emotions?

This book contains an edited selection of papers presented at the Eighth Research Conference on Subjective Probability, Utility and Decision Making, held in Budapest.

What is the connection between causation and responsibility?

Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, Volume 71 in a series that is considered the premier outlet for reviews of mature, high-impact research programs in social psychology covers a variety of topics, with this release containing chapters on Understanding the Causes and Consequences of Belief in Conspiracy Theories, Fostering Inclusion: A Model for Understanding the Factors that Enhance and Undermine Identity-Safety, Intellectual Humility: On Understanding Our Limits, Ideology, Motivation, and the Connection between Cognition and Behavior, The Psychology of Science Rejection, and more.

This book brings together recent research on the ability of human listeners to discern changes in the shape of complex acoustic spectra.

What is the connection between causation and responsibility?

This book reports recent landmark developments and the state of the art in NDS science in psychological theory and research.

Stimulus class formation has been studied independently by two groups of researchers.

In order to understand how the brain works, it is essential to know what is computed by different brain systems, and how those computations are performed.

The Science of Dream Interpretation presents a scientific, historic and psychological account of dream interpretation by introducing the biological and evolutionary foundations of sleep, dreams and dream interpretation.

The intent of this book is to describe those perceptual and cognitive components which contribute to skilled motor performance in a wide variety of disciplines, including sports, microsurgery, video games, and speech.

With Beyond Rationality, Kenneth R.

'Gaining control' tells the story of how human behavioral capacities evolved from those of other animal species.

Pinpoints exactly what critical thinking is and uses cutting-edge research to show how to teach and assess it.

Advances in Experimental Social Psychology continues to be one of the most sought after and most often cited series in this field.

Research Methods for the Behavioral Sciences, Third Edition employs a problem-focused approach to present a clear and comprehensive introduction to research methods.

This interdisciplinary new work explores one of the central theoretical problems in linguistics: learnability.

What are the fundamental mechanisms of decision making, processing speed, memory and cognitive control?

The study of attention in the laboratory has been crucial to understanding the mechanisms that support several different facets of attentional processing: Our ability to both divide attention among multiple tasks and stimuli, and selectively focus it on task-relevant information, while ignoring distracting task-irrelevant information, as well as how top-down and bottom-up factors influence the way that attention is directed within and across modalities.

This Brief introduces two empirically grounded models of situated mental phenomena: contextual social cognition (the collection of psychological processes underlying context-dependent social behavior) and action-language coupling (the integration of ongoing actions with movement-related verbal information).