Cognition and cognitive psychology Books

This book addresses the fundamentals of machine ethics. It discusses abilities required for ethical machine reasoning and the programming features that enable them. It connects ethics, psychological ethical processes, and machine implemented procedures...

This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction into the areas of human action planning and action control. It discusses the basic theoretical issues and questions in understanding the planning and control of human goal-directed action. The authors...

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...

This Brief brings together empirical accounts that contribute to the investigation of the cultural phenomena of deep personal experiences. It examines everyday life experiences and its influence on the development of successful social interactions...

This SpringerBrief provides an interdisciplinary synthesis based on psychology, logic, mathematics, cognitive science, and the history of science. It presents psychology as a science that suffers from a reduced understanding of the most fundamental logic...

This is a tale of one company's journey as they master the art of achieving more by doing less.Contrast this with standard industry practice of adding ever increasing management systems and compliance to passive organisations that only decreases...

Preferences are assumed to play a crucial role in many phenomena that are studied in learning psychology, social psychology, consumer science, emotion research, and clinical psychology. Given the pervasive impact that preferences have on behaviour, it is...

Semantic priming has been a focus of research in the cognitive sciences for more than thirty years and is commonly used as a tool for investigating other aspects of perception and cognition, such as word recognition, language comprehension, and knowledge...

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Dancing with the Muse in Old Age uses current science to present old age as a potentially happy, creative, and productive time. Numerous models-including many elders active in the arts-illustrate the possibilities. 

Originally published in 1986, designed for teachers and those concerned with the education of primary and secondary school pupils, Learning Strategies presented a new approach to 'learning to learn'. Its aim was to encourage teachers to start thinking...

Dieses Buch beleuchtet die faszinierende Welt der Gesichtswahrnehmungen und Sinnestäuschungen und zeigt auf, wie diese Phänomene unser Verständnis der Welt um uns herum beeinflussen.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important,...

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...

We are heading for uncertain times. And uncertainty is one thing that the brain doesn’t like.This uncertainty is fuelled by a growing drive for businesses to not just innovate, but to disrupt. The result? Technological capabilities that are quickly...

The first edition of this book was a groundbreaking, research-based clinical guide to the neurofeedback treatment of ADHD. This second edition maintains this high standard and has been extensively revised and expanded to include new research, an...

This work by Runkel introduces Perceptual Control Theory, PCT, which is a new conception of how all living organisms function. Runkel links PCT thinking to the psychological literature and discusses it against the background of that literature. FROM THE...

First published in 1984. This volume was organized for students of human memory and related cognitive processes. The issues deal not only with memory in unimpaired individuals, but also with impaired patients and with consolidation in lower animals. The...

First published in 1981. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Because every literary image is also a mental image, and because every mental image is a representation of an absent entity, Christopher Collins argues, imagination is a poiesis, a making-up, an act of play for both author and reader. In a book that...

First published in 2007. The focus of this book is on the cognitive processes involved in comprehension, and moreover, on techniques that help readers improve their ability to comprehend text and it is also on reading comprehension strategies. Indeed,...

This extremely up-to-date book, Speech Production and Second Language Acquisition, is the first volume in the exciting new series, Cognitive Science and Second Language Acquisition. This new volume provides a thorough overview of the field and proposes a...

The organization of the first Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition (SARMAC) conference centered around two specifically identifiable research topics -- autobiographical memory and eyewitness memory. These two areas -- long-time staples on...

This volume examines the scientific basis of reductionist approaches to understanding visual perception. The author makes the provocative argument that contemporary neuroscience and cognitive science have gone off on a wild-goose chase in the search for...

The symposium on which this volume was based brought together approximately fifty scientists from a variety of backgrounds to discuss the rapidly-emerging set of competing technologies for exploiting a massive quantity of textual information. This group...

Directed to scholars and senior-level graduate students, this book is an iconoclastic survey of the history of dualism and its impact on contemporary cognitive psychology. It argues that much of modern cognitive or mentalist psychology is built upon a...

Pointing has captured the interest of scholars from various fields who study communication. However, ideas and findings have been scattered across diverse publications in different disciplines, and opportunities for interdisciplinary exchange have been...

Communication and Social Cognition represents the explosion of work in the field of social cognition over the past 25 years. Expanding the contribution made by Social Cognition and Communication, published in 1982, this scholarly collection updates the...

 Invariances in Human Information Processing examines and identifies processing universals and how they are implemented in elementary judgemental processes. This edited collection offers evidence that these universals can be extracted and identified...

This book describes how Human Factors and Sensemaking can be used as part of the concept and design of safety critical systems, in order to improve safety and resilience.

The Gestalts of Mind and Text bridges literary studies and cognitive psychology to provide a unique contribution to the field of Cognitive Literary Studies. The book presents an investigation of metaphor in poetic texts, adopting and developing empirical...

In The American Father, Wade C. Mackey documents a wealth of infor­ mation demonstrating the vast benefits to society when its children are raised in families with fathers. The biopsychosocial approach Mackey in human employs...

A number of factors converged to prompt this volume at this particular time. For several years, supervisors in predoctoral and internship programs have noted the need for a compendium of selected articles to illustrate the...

In Perspectives in Creativity experts in the psychology of creativity take stock of the field by examining their own experiences. The contributors relate how they embarked on their work, how their ideas developed, what in their thinking remained the...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2013 im Fachbereich Verkehrswissenschaft, Note: 1,3, Technische Universität Dresden, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Mobilität wird als Grundbedürfnis des Menschen angesehen und ist ein Indikatorfür Wohlstand und Entwicklung...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2013 im Fachbereich Verkehrswissenschaft, Note: 2,0, Deutsche Außenhandels- und Verkehrsakademie DAV Bremen, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Das Food Chain Management (FCM) ist ein Teilgebiet der Agrar- und Ernährungswissenschaft...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Verkehrswissenschaft, Note: 1,4, Deutsche Außenhandels- und Verkehrsakademie DAV Bremen, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Studienarbeit beschäftigt sich mit dem Einsatz von Telematiksystemen im Fuhrpark von...

Doktorarbeit / Dissertation aus dem Jahr 2003 im Fachbereich Verkehrswissenschaft, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: The movement of crowds is a field of research that attracts increasinginterest. This is due to three major reasons:...

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Do you tend to burden yourself with other people’s problems and feel overwhelmed by others’ emotions clashing with your own feelings? Do you feel drained after being surrounded by too many people? Or constantly find the urge to seek out quiet...

Do you feel endlessly overwhelmed by your own negative brain? Do you lack focus, worry about the future and feel daily anxiety? If you want a more peaceful, self-controlled mind, this book is for you. Being anxious and...

Do you want to be logical like Einstein, observant like Sherlock, and rational like Plato? These great names have something in common: they are all exceptional critical thinkers. What did they do differently that made them so recognizable for...

The research on human expertise and complex skill acquisition that Wlliam G. Chase performed in the decade between publication of the classic chess studies he conducted with Herb Simon in 1973 and his untimely and tragic death has proven profoundly...