Cognition and cognitive psychology Books

Use willpower to achieve the life that you want.Most people can't accomplish what they want. They let themselves underachieve, and don't have the energy to do better. But you are different. You will learn how the true meaning of mind over matter.Learn to...

How to systematically engineer creativity from nothing and unleash your inner ingenuity.Creative thinking is surrounded by so much mystique and myth. It's time to cut through the static and learn how to become an idea-generating machine.Spark your...

Neuroscience made simple: practical methods to rewire your brain and take control of your thoughts, actions, and inner voice.Despite our best efforts, most of the time, we act without thinking. We make poor decisions. But this isn’t our fault!...

How to systematically engineer creativity from nothing and unleash your inner ingenuity.Creative thinking is surrounded by so much mystique and myth. It’s time to cut through the static and learn how to become an idea-generating machine. Spark...

In the World Library of Psychologists series, international experts themselves present career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces - extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, and their major practical...

In order to produce coherent behaviour in a complex world, forms of visual attention are necessary in order for us to select appropriate objects for action. Over the past ten years, there have been considerable advances in research into visual attention,...

Over the past thirty years, and particularly within the last ten years, researchers in the areas of social psychology, cognitive psychology, clinical psychology, and neuroscience have been examining fascinating questions regarding the nature of...

Dance has always been an important aspect of all human cultures, and the study of human movement and action has become a topic of increasing relevance over the last decade, bringing dance into the focus of the cognitive sciences. Since the first edition...

Arithmetic is still hugely important in many aspects of modern life, but our personal attitudes to it differ greatly. Many people struggle with the basic principles of arithmetic, whilst others love it and feel confident in their arithmetical abilities...

Dual Process Theory 2.0 provides a comprehensive overview of the new directions in which dual process research is heading. Human thinking is often characterized as an interplay between intuition and deliberation and this two-headed, dual process view of...

Conscious Action Theory provides a logical unification between the spirit and the material, by identifying reality as an event that processes personal experiences into explanatory memories, from which personal experiences are regenerated in a...

Sensation of Movement explores the role of sensation in motor control, bodily self-recognition and sense of agency. The sensation of movement is dependent on a range of information received by the brain, from signalling in the peripheral sensory organs...

Originally published in 1987, this title aimed to present an eclectic and biased account of the status of perception-action relationships in various fields at the time. The chapters can be divided into three sections. The first focuses on motor control,...

Originally published in 1992, when connectionist natural language processing (CNLP) was a new and burgeoning research area, this book represented a timely assessment of the state of the art in the field. It includes contributions from some of the best...

Complex system studies are a growing area of central importance to a wide range of disciplines, ranging from physics to politics and beyond. Adopting this interdisciplinary approach, Systems, Self-Organisation and Information presents and discusses a...

Science and Magic in the Modern World is a unique text that explores the role of magical thinking in everyday life. It provides an excellent psychological look at the subconscious belief in magic in both popular culture and society, as well as...

Can problems be solved by setting them aside or by sleeping on them? Incubation, the process of stopping conscious work on problems for a set period of time, is an integral part of the creative problem solving process. Providing an overview of the main...

Current research perspectives on physical appearance by distinguished behavioral scientists from around the world were brought together in a special issue of Current Psychology and are offered here in a useful compendium

Originally published in 1995, this title is a result of an interdisciplinary study in architectural theory, psychology and philosophy and the author's experience as a practicing architect. It tries to relate theories of aesthetics and recent advances in...

This book provides a clear understanding of the neuro mechanisms of emotional intelligence and its applications to education and organizations through practical exercises.

Plain Language: A Psycholinguistic Approach employs principles from the field of psycholinguistics to explore factors that make a sentence or text easy or difficult to process by the cognitive mechanisms that support language processing, and describes...

The Origins of Consciousness challenges the dominant view that consciousness is an emergent property of the complex human brain.

This volume reflects the multiplicity of perspectives in the theory and practice of creativity, while it is broadly accepted that the dynamism of humanity's responses to our evolving scientific, social and environmental needs depends on our creativity...

This book provides in-depth description, explanation, and discussion of goal frustration. It brings together a repertoire of perspectives and strategies that educators and scholars from diverse educational contexts have conceptualized and/or implemented...

This book offers a new standpoint to understanding tolerance to human diversity by approaching it from the perspectives of cognitive, developmental and prosocial psychology. Emphasising the positive aspects of social perception and behaviour, it invites...

Let's RE:THINK ThisIf you are a creative artist you probably make most of your money doing other things, besides your art. Certainly, if you are a poet, you are doing it for the thrill of calling yourself a poet, right. I would guess poetry sales are...

"O Enxame da Sabedoria"Descubra o poder transformador da cooperação, resiliência e harmonia com "O Enxame da Sabedoria". Inspirado na organização impecável e comunicação precisa das abelhas, este livro oferece lições profundas para cultivar uma mente...

Comprendre le TOP et ses cousins cachésTDA/H - TSA - HPI & compagnie ! Je réagis, donc je suis !Manuel de survie pour les rebelles involontaires(et leur entourage) Tu as déjà eu l'impression d'être étiqueté(e) plus vite qu'une promo au supermarché...

Ever feel like your mind is playing tricks on you? Like one small parenting mistake suddenly turns into a catastrophic event in your head? Welcome to the world of cognitive distortions-those sneaky mental habits that twist reality into something far more...

Navigate the world of ADHD parenting with confidence - discover how to turn challenges into opportunities for growth and connection! Do you ever feel overwhelmed by the unpredictable nature of parenting a child with ADHD?Are you constantly questioning if...

As a socially disruptive technology, Ambient Intelligence is ultimately directed towards humans and targeted at the mundane life made of an infinite richness of circumstances that cannot fully be considered and easily be anticipated. Most books, however,...

Fifty years ago, enthused by successes in creating digital computers and the DNA model of heredity, scientists were con?dent that solutions to the problems of und- standing biological intelligence and creating machine intelligence were within their grasp...

The challenge presented by the recent tendencies to "naturalize" phenomenology, on the basis of the progress in biological and neurological sciences, calls for an investigation of the traditional mind-body problem. The progress in phenomenological...

Unique in that it collects, presents, and synthesizes cutting edge research on different aspects of statistical reasoning and applies this research to the teaching of statistics to students at all educational levels, this...

These volumes represent the proceedings of NATO Advanced Study Institute on the topic of "Cognitive Processes and Spatial Orientation in Animal and Man" held at La-Baume-les-Aix, Aix-en-Provence, France, in June-July 1985. The...

This book presents the contributions of the members of an Advanced Research Workshop on Cogni ti ve Science Perspectives on Emotion, Motivation and Cognition. The Workshop, funded mainly by the NATO Scientific Affairs Division,...

The locus of concreteness effects in memory for verbal materials has been described here in terms of the processing of shared and distinctive information. This theoretical view is consistent with a variety of findings ...

The institutionalization of History and Philosophy of Science as a distinct field of scholarly endeavour began comparatively early - though not always under that name - in the Australasian region. An initial lecturing ...

The fifth Summer School organized by the European Associa­ tion of Experimental Social Psychology was held in Aix-en-Proven­ ce (France, from July 12 to 31, 1981. Previous schools had taken place in The Hague (The Nederlands)...

INTRODUCTION MOODS AND PHILOSOPHY, I. Ferber and H. Kenaan.- I. WONDER THAUMA IDESTHAI: THE MYTHICAL ORIGINS OF PHILOSOPHICAL WONDER, V. Lev-Kenaan.- ATTENTIVENESS: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDY OF THE RELATION OF MOOD TO MEMORY, W. Froman.- A MOOD OF...

Preface: Anita Konzelmann Ziv.- Self-Evaluation - Philosophical Perspectives.- PART I - Evaluative and Self Evaluative Attitudes.- How to Have Self-Directed Attidudes: Lynne Ruder Baker.- Interpretation, Cause and Avowal: On the Evaluative Dimension of...

Within our knowledge, the series of the International Conference on Cognitive Neurodynamics (ICCN) is the only conference series dedicating to cognitive neurodynamics. This volume is the proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Cognitive...

Acknowledgements PART 1: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES: NEW PARADIGMS OF WORK AND LEARNING 1 Introduction Marja-Leena Stenström & Päivi Tynjälä 2 Connectivity and Transformation in Work-Related Learning - Theoretical Foundations Päivi Tynjälä 3 Being,...

CREATIVITY HAS become a popular slogan in contemporary education and society. We are urged continually to be creative with respect to all our endeavours - to be creative writers, creative cooks, creative teachers, creative...

In Decembe,r, 1984 a NATO-sponsored Advanced Study Institute entitled "Human Asessment:Cognition and Motivation" took place in Athens. It succeeded in attracting a great many of the most eminent scholars and researchers in this...

This third volume of American University Publications in Philos­ ophy continues the tradition of presenting books in the series shaping current frontiers and new directions in phi. osophical reflection. In a period emerging...