Cognition and cognitive psychology Books

The universalist view that acquisition of phonology is guided by universal principles has been the dominant position for decades.  More recently, an alternative view has brought into focus the relationship between developmental markedness and...

Neural Plasticity Across the Lifespan reviews the recent scientific developments which are transforming our understanding of the human brain. For many years it was thought that modifications to the structural and functional organization of the brain were...

This classic edition of Alan Parkin's landmark textbook provides a clear, fundamental grounding in cognitive psychology for undergraduate students new to the subject. Essential Cognitive Psychology presents the reader with highly accessible overviews of...

This Classic Edition of the best-selling textbook offers an in-depth overview of approaches to the study of memory. With empirical research from both the real world and the neuropsychological clinic, the book explains the fundamental workings of human...

<At first glance, issues like economic inequality, healthcare, climate change, and abortion seem unrelated. However, when thinking and talking about them, people reliably fall into two camps: conservative and liberal. What explains this divide? Why do...

This second edition of The Child as Thinker has been thoroughly revised and updated to provide an informed and accessible overview of the varied and extensive literature on children's cognition. Both theory and research data are critically examined and...

Want to learn how to become a meditation guru? Look no further! Learn to discover the beauty of the present moment right now! Just take a deep breath in through the nose... and exhale ... This guide offers the essentials of meditation practice by...

This book was written as a result of the many individuals I had the opportunity to treat who had addiction issues. As a Probation officer, Correctional Counselor and Psychotherapist, I would make referrals to various agencies to assist these individuals...

For some time now, the study of cognitive development has been far and away the most active discipline within developmental psychology. Although there would be much disagreement as to the exact proportion of papers published in...

Embark on a Journey through the Labyrinth of Today's Dynamic WorldNavigating the twists and turns of our rapidly evolving society has never been more compelling. "V.U.C.A. Revolution: Young Generations in a Dynamic World" unveils the roadmap to...

Alcorn examines qualities of student resistance to new and uncomfortable information and proposes methods for teachers to work productively with such resistance. Drawing on research from numerous disciplines showing how emotion grounds human reason, he...

This book helps to bridge the gap between science and literary scholarship. Building on findings in the evolutionary human sciences, the authors construct a model of human nature in order to illuminate the evolved psychology that shapes the organization...

The Psychology of Memory provides a unique insight into a fundamental part of being human, debunking many common misconceptions about what memory is, how memory works, and the accuracy of our memories. It explores the complexity of human memory and the...

In the World Library of Psychologists series, international experts present career-long collections of what they judge to be their most interesting publications - extracts from books, key articles, research findings, and practical and theoretical...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

At the heart of life is creativity, a wonderful energy we all carry within us.Creativity isn’t just for little kids or artists, and it doesn’t just mean painting, drawing, writing or playing an instrument.Creativity means using the energy of...

This book explores the universal human existential trauma of "original loss," a trauma the author describes as arising from our primal, human evolutionary loss of experiencing ourselves as innately belonging to, and instinctively at home within, the...

Discourse on Thinking questions that must occur to us the moment we manage to see a familiar situation in unfamiliar light.

Evolving Arms Race: Outsmarting Cognitive Warfare with Next-Gen AI (Highlights the dynamic nature of the threat and the need for advanced solutions)CONVERSATIONAL CHAT INFORMATIVE BOOKBy ABEBE- BARD AI WOLDEMARIAM Main argument:Cognitive warfare is a...

Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2010 in the subject Psychology - Cognition, , language: English, abstract: The article offers a comprehensive overview of the Active Perception theory (PA); with the Complex Adaptive Systems theory in the...

Pour apprendre à se connaitre soi-même le cheval est un bon maître qui reflète avec justesse ce qui se tapit au fond de nous, dans une situation et à un moment donnés ; c'est aussi l'objectif de l'approche cognitivo-comportementale qui, à travers les...

If life can feel at times like a challenging tightrope walk, how do we face life’s difficulties yet remain resilient and open-hearted?  Rather than seeking “perfect” balance, or tiptoeing on our journey, how do we learn to...

The chapters in this volume are testament to the many ways in which Robert Bjork's ideas have shaped the course of research on human memory over four decades. It showcases the theoretical advances and recent findings by researchers whose work and careers...

This book highlights some of the most intriguing, surprising, and enlightening experimental studies on the topic of donation behavior, opening up exciting pathways to cross-cutting the divide between theory and practice.

Individuals do not always perform to their full capability on cognitive tasks. When this occurs, the usual explanation is that the individual was not properly motivated. But this begs the important question: How and why does motivation interact with and...

People base thousands of choices across a lifetime on the views they hold of their skill and moral character, yet a growing body of research in psychology shows that such self-views are often misguided or misinformed. Anyone who has dealt with others in...

Executive functions develop during the first years of life and determine future learning and personal development. Executive dysfunction is related to various neurodevelopmental disorders, so its study is of great interest for intervention in children...

Neurodivergent Tokenism by Megan Dennis is a comprehensive exploration of the historical context, understanding, and impact of neurodivergent tokenism in education, the workplace, and society, offering strategies for addressing and advancing...

From the New York Times Bestselling author of What Doesn't Kill Us"Crazy good writing" -Wim Hof, "The Iceman"Thrive or die: That’s the rule of evolution. Despite this brutal logic, some species have learned to survive in...

Humans learn by association. Every concept that you understand is connected to an earlier concept. So then, what happens if you retrace those connections? Wouldn’t you eventually find a starting point? Indeed, you would. The Tangled Mind argues...

Drawing on a wide variety of modern and classical sources and multiple disciplines, this book presents hypothesizes about the relationship between human language and thought to brain specialization. The authors focus on...

Human Development in Adulthood is a comprehensive, multidisciplinary overview of adult development in a number of areas both personal and societal, from mental and physical health, to economic and social conditions...

This volume has been composed as an appreciation of Martin L. Albert in the year of his 60th birthday. At least one contributor to each paper in this volume has been touched by Marty in some way; lie has mentored some, been a...

Classical conditioning of the nictitating membrane (NM) eyeblink response in rabbits is a useful model system for the study of the neurobiology of learning and memory. This paradigm that is so well described on a biological...

This volume goes beyond theory and gives the empirical and conceptual tools to conduct an experimental analysis of virtually every substantive topic in human language and cognition, both basic and applied. It challenges...

urrently a paradigm shift is occurring in for the conventional understanding of represen- which the traditional view of the brain as tions. The paper also summarizes the rationale for C representing the "things of the world" is...

When we say that a person deserves a positive or negative outcome, we are making a judgment that is influenced by a number ofvariables. We would certainly take into account whether the person was resp- ...

Unlike any book before it, this volume embodies the state-of-the-art regarding the experimental study of human communication, by bringing together cutting edge findings from psycholinguistics, communication, cognition, neuroscience, language, and...

Moral Inferences is the first volume to thoroughly explore the relationship between morality and reasoning. Drawing on the expertise of world-leading researchers, this text provides ground-breaking insight into the importance of studying these distinct...

Some of the central problems to be solved by the brain, such as figure-ground coding and object recognition, concern the binding of separately coded feature elements into coherent object representations. The binding problem has recently been approached...

This special issue ponders a detailed and contemporary analysis of the theoretical underpinnings of short-term and working memory. Articles focus on short-term memory for phonological, semantic, and spatial material, on executive function and on...

Influential theories on affect and emotion propose a fundamental differentiation between emotion and cognition, and research paradigms designed to test them focus on differences rather than similarities between affective and cognitive processes. This...

This volume explores the well-documented phenomena of memory distortion in a variety of settings, as well as how it can be ameliorated or prevented altogether. The editors have recruited some of the very best researchers in the applied cognitive field...