Experimental psychology

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

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

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

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

Everyone knows what consciousness is: it is what vanishes when we fall into dreamless sleep and reappears when we wake up or when we dream.

Everyone knows what consciousness is: it is what vanishes when we fall into dreamless sleep and reappears when we wake up or when we dream.

We grow up thinking there are five senses, but we forget about the ten neglected senses of the body that both enable and limit our experience.

We grow up thinking there are five senses, but we forget about the ten neglected senses of the body that both enable and limit our experience.

The world of perception is multisensory.

The way that we interact with the environment on a daily basis is inherently multisensory.

"e;This book is the fruit of Alex Shepherds remarkable teaching experience in one of the most prestigious universities in the world.

Visual control of our actions can be unconscious as well as conscious.

Visual control of our actions can be unconscious as well as conscious.

Brain imaging has revolutionised the field of Psychology - once more concerned with IQ tests, reaction times and questionnaires.

Brain imaging has revolutionised the field of Psychology - once more concerned with IQ tests, reaction times and questionnaires.

The ability to communicate through spoken and written language is one of the defining characteristics of the human race, yet it remains a deeply mysterious process.

While the field of vision science has grown significantly in the past three decades, there have been few comprehensive books that showed readers how to adopt a computional approach to understanding visual perception, along with the underlying mechanisms in the brain.

While the field of vision science has grown significantly in the past three decades, there have been few comprehensive books that showed readers how to adopt a computional approach to understanding visual perception, along with the underlying mechanisms in the brain.

Musical Excellence offers performers, teachers, and researchers, new perspectives and practical guidance for enhancing performance and managing the stress that typically accompanies performance situations.

'Working Memory, Thought, and Action' is the magnum opus of one of the most influential cognitive psychologists of the past 50 years.

Behavioural experiments are one of the central and most powerful methods of intervention in cognitive therapy.

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

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

First Minds: Caterpillars, 'Karyotes, and Consciousness presents a novel theory of the origins of mind and consciousness dubbed the Cellular Basis of Consciousness (CBC).

First Minds: Caterpillars, 'Karyotes, and Consciousness presents a novel theory of the origins of mind and consciousness dubbed the Cellular Basis of Consciousness (CBC).

Our sense that a waltz is "e;in three"e; or a blues song is "e;in four with a shuffle"e; comes from our sense of musical meter.

Neuroscience of Rule-Guided Behavior brings together, for the first time, the experiments and theories that have created the new science of rules.

With Beyond Rationality, Kenneth R.

Scientists currently study memory from many different perspectives: neurobiological, ethological, animal conditioning, cognitive, behavioral neuroscience, social, and cultural.

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.

"e;The question for me is how can the human mind occur in the physical universe.

We effortlessly recognize all sorts of events--from simple events like people walking to complex events like leaves blowing in the wind.

The field of cognitive modeling has progressed beyond modeling cognition in the context of simple laboratory tasks and begun to attack the problem of modeling it in more complex, realistic environments, such as those studied by researchers in the field of human factors.

Order affects the results you get: Different orders of presenting material can lead to qualitatively and quantitatively different learning outcomes.

Findings from research on false memory have major implications for a number of fields central to human welfare, such as medicine and law.

Research relevant to the topic of distinctiveness and memory dates back over 100 years and boasts a literature of well over 2,000 published articles.

The job of any sensory system is to create objects in the world out of the incoming proximal stimulus energy.

Working memory--the ability to keep important information in mind while comprehending, thinking, and acting--varies considerably from person to person and changes dramatically during each person's life.

Philosophers since Aristotle have explored emotion, and the study of emotion has always been essential to the love of wisdom.

What, if anything, do dreams tell us about ourselves?

Although researchers have long been aware that the species-typical architecture of the human mind is the product of our evolutionary history, it has only been in the last three decades that advances in such fields as evolutionary biology, cognitive psychology, and paleoanthropology have made the fact of our evolution illuminating.

Episodic memory is a major area of research in psychology.

In everyday life, and particularly in the modern workplace, information technology and automation increasingly mediate, augment, and sometimes even interfere with how humans interact with their environment.

For years, What the Face Reveals has been a singular collection of previously published original research using the Facial Action Coding System (FACS) to study facial behavior.

For years, What the Face Reveals has been a singular collection of previously published original research using the Facial Action Coding System (FACS) to study facial behavior.

The study of expertise weaves its way through various communities of practice, across disciplines, and over millennia.

Foundations of Art Therapy: Theory and Applications is an essential and comprehensive introduction to the field of art therapy that blends relevant psychological and neuroscience research, theories, and concepts and infuses cultural diversity throughout each chapter.

Advances in Motivation Science, Volume Eight, the latest release in Elsevier's serial on the topic of motivation science, contains interesting articles that cover topics such as The functional architecture of human motivation: Personality systems interactions theory, Teacher motivational messages used prior to examinations: What are they, how are they evaluated, and what are their educational outcomes?

The Advances in Experimental Social Psychology series is the premier outlet for reviews of mature, high-impact research programs in social psychology.

The Neuroscience of Meditation: Understanding Individual Differences explores the individual differences in learning and practicing meditation, while also providing insights on how to learn and practice effectively.