Cognition and cognitive psychology Books

Focusing on the broad range of attitudes Black people employ to make sense of their Blackness, this volume offers the latest research on racial identity. The first section explores meaning-making, or the importance of holding one type of racial-cultural...

Language comprises a major mark of humans compared with other primates and is the main vehicle for social interaction. A major characteristic of any natural language is that the same communication, idea, or intention can be articulated in different...

This innovative volume provides a state-of-the-art overview of the relationship between language and cognition with a focus on bilinguals. It brings together contributions from international leading figures in various disciplines and showcases...

This volume provides an integrative review of the emerging and increasing use of network science techniques in cognitive psychology, first developed in mathematics, computer science, sociology, and physics. The first resource on network science for...

Cada día en nuestra vida, siempre nos enfrentamos a situaciones que requieren que tomemos decisiones. Algunos son fáciles, pero hay algunos que son difíciles de decidir. La mayoría de las veces, tomamos decisiones lo suficientemente rápido, nunca...

Το βιβλίο Ρήξη: Βρίσκοντας τις πραγματικές σας δυνατότητες σε έναν κόσμο που αλλάζει είναι ένας μεταμορφωτικός οδηγός που δίνει στους αναγνώστες τη δυνατότητα να αντιμετωπίσουν τις προκλήσεις της ζωής και να ξεκλειδώσουν τις κρυμμένες δυνατότητές τους σε...

Ruptura: Encontrando Seu Verdadeiro Potencial Num Mundo em Transformação é um guia transformador que capacita os leitores a enfrentar os desafios da vida e a desbloquear o seu potencial oculto num mundo em constante evolução. Este livro inovador oferece...

Vi ägnar åtskillig tid åt att oroa oss, älta och grubbla över saker som inte kan ändras eller påverkas. Dagar såväl som sömnlösa nätter. Tidigare har man ofta rekommenderat olika distraktionstekniker, men dessa försvårar på sikt även om de hjälper i...

Fight, Flight or Flourish: How neuroscience can unlock human potential takes the latest research in neuroscience and translates it into actionable steps you can take today to help you and your team thrive at work!This practical book offers dozens of...

This book provides an overview of cutting-edge methods currently being used in cognitive psychology, which are likely to appear with increasing frequency in coming years.Once built around univariate parametric statistics, cognitive psychology courses now...

Imagery, Language and Visuo-Spatial Thinking discusses the remarkable human ability to use mental imagery in everyday life: from helping plan actions and routes to aiding creative thinking; from making sense of and remembering our immediate environment...

What if you already had everything you needed to take your life to the next level?That you already are who you want to be.Uncovering a thrilling world of infinite powers and limitless possibilities for growth, Shay Stone shows us the way to...

For the creative fulfillment of writers who identify as runners, walkers, or movers, Running, Thinking, Writing: Embodied Cognition in Composition unveils the varied understandings of the relationship between writing activity and physical activity...

An important goal in contemporary educational psychology research is adolescentstudents’ development of higher‐order thinking, which includes, among otherthings, that these students become competent and independent learners andproblem solvers. This...

The model system of eyeblink classical conditioning in humans has enormous potential for the understanding and application of fundamental principles of learning. This collection makes classical conditioning accessible to...

I first met Ernest Furchtgott twenty-five years ago after joining the faculty of the College of Social Work at the University of South Carolina. At that time, Ernie chaired the Department of Psychology. In the following three...

This handbook celebrates the abundantly productive interaction of neuropsychology and medicine. This interaction can be found in both clinical settings and research l- oratories, often between research teams and clinical...

The Nature and Development of Animal Intelligence is a book written by Wesley Mills in 1898. The book explores the topic of animal intelligence and aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of the subject. Mills examines the different types of animal...

Originally published in 1925, this book embodies the results of research on red-green colour-blind subjects, supplemented by brief accounts of blue-yellow, total, and acquired colour-blindness to complete the description of the different forms of the...

Vygotsky at Work and Play is an intimate portrayal of the Vygotskian-inspired approach to human development known as 'social therapeutics' and 'the psychology of becoming'. Holzman provides an accessible, practical-philosophical portrayal of a unique...

Many topics have inspired significant amounts of neuroimaging research in recent years, and the study of mental imagery was one of the earliest to receive a thorough empirical investigation. Twenty years later, the goal of understanding this pervasive...

This collection of essays focuses on the interface between delusions and self-deception. As pathologies of belief, delusions and self-deception raise many of the same challenges for those seeking to understand them. Are delusions and self-deception...

In this timely and comprehensive text, Cesare Cornoldi and Tomaso Vecchi describe their recently developed experimental approach to the investigation of visuo-spatial cognition, based upon the analysis of individual differences. A review of the most...

Cognitive analytic therapy (CAT) is an established form of integrated psychotherapy, which has been applied in a variety of clinical settings to a diversity of disorders with promising outcomes. In Cognitive Analytic Therapy for Offenders, the authors...

What can research in cognitive psychology offer the growth of educational technology and instructional media? Originally published in 1988, this book argues that, for much of its history, educational technology has been concerned with justifying and...

Originally published in 1974, this introductory text has been designed specifically for teachers in training, and it presents the basic psychological principles governing learning, perception, motivation and the retention of knowledge at the time. The...

Originally published in 1978, this study examines the shortcomings of some theoretical approaches to psychological and neurophysiological mechanisms at the time. Keith Oatley illustrates the extent of these shortcomings by showing how inefficient brain...

Originally published in 1963, this is a classic work on the psychology of perception. By means of suitable patterns on a partly concealed rotating disc Michotte was able to give the impression of objects in movement; and where certain conditions of...

Originally published in 1974: 'This book sets forth a theory of cognitive development based on simple but powerful processes of inference. The theory is applied with great ingenuity and freshness to complex phenomena found during intellectual development...

Originally published in 1978, the laws and procedures governing person identification parades, photofit pictures and the forms of questions asked to obtain a description, had been increasingly called into question. The problem had been highlighted by...

Perception is about the reception, selection, acquisition, transformation and organization of sensory information. This book, originally published in 1976, discusses a number of aspects of human perception within a theoretical framework in which man is...

Originally published in 1987, this book introduces the reader to work on the intellectual development of adolescents relevant to the secondary school teacher. It covers the teaching of English, history, geography, economics, politics, legal studies,...

Technological developments during the Second World War led to an approach that linked ideas from computer science to neuroscience, linguistics, philosophy and psychology, known today as the Cognitive Revolution. Leaving behind traditional behaviourist...

The relationship between brain and mind is one of the most baffling problems in science but potentially one of the most interesting. First published in 1985, this collection of original essays traces the development of mind in animals and human beings...

This book, originally published in 1970, concerns the new technique of computer simulation in psychology at the time. Computer programs described include models of learning, problem-solving, pattern recognition, the use of language, and personality. More...

Research on training programs for students with learning difficulties has usually focused on the development of social and behavioural skills and the acquisition of cognitive interventions and procedures. Originally published in 1989, this book attempts...

""An Introduction to the Science of Thought"" is a book written by Stephen Southric Hebberd and originally published in 1892. The book is a comprehensive exploration of the science of thought, which includes an analysis of the various components of...

Unraveling the Maze of the Mind for Emotional Well-beingDive into the insightful world of "Thoughts are Not Facts - A Guide to Mastering Cognitive Distortions," a transformative book designed to empower individuals in their journey towards mental clarity...

La resolución de problemas psicológicos tiene un impacto profundo en el individuo y en la sociedad en su conjunto, mejorando el bienestar, fortaleciendo las relaciones, fomentando la productividad y contribuyendo a la creación de comunidades más...

The past few decades have seen a huge increase in global interest in psychology, with more psychologists, psychology programmes and students than ever before. Culture and Cognition: A collection of critical essays is made up of chapters written by...

Uncover the secret world of body language and learn to read people like an open book.Have you always wanted to tap into the hidden world of body language, but you never knew where to begin? Do you want to turn yourself into a human lie detector and start...

During the final decade or so of his life, Hartman frequently delivered a series of lectures in which he outlined the need for a scientific theory of human values, the theoretical requirements demanded of an effective value theory, and his rationale...

Originally published in 1987, this title is about theory construction in psychology. Where theories come from, as opposed to how they become established, was almost a no-man's land in the history and philosophy of science at the time. The authors argue...

Clinicians and practitioners-in-training can often lose sight of the normal developmental landscape that underlies behavior, especially in the field of cognitive development. It exists in an insular bubble within the broader field of psychology, and...

Can you learn without knowing it? This controversial and much debated question forms the basis of this collection of essays as the authors discuss whether the measurable changes in behaviour that result from learning can ever remain entirely unconscious...

Our use of spatial prepositions carries an implicit understanding of the functional relationships both between objects themselves and human interaction with those objects.This is the thesis rigorously explicated in Saying, Seeing and Acting. It aims to...