Cognitive Psychology & Cognition

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780671495190Author Tony BuzanFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Prentice Hall & IBDPublisher Prentice Hall (a Pearson Education company)Weight(grams)...

Stanislav Grof's first 17 years of research into the non-ordinary states of consciousness induced by LSD and other psychedelics led to a revolutionary understanding of the human psyche. His research was the impetus behind a vastly expanded cartography of...

In this updated and expanded edition of The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance, some of the world's foremost experts on expertise share their scientific knowledge of expertise and expert performance and show how experts may differ...

Why do we dream? What is the connection between our dreams and our mental health? Can we teach ourselves to have lucid dreams?The Psychology of Dreaming delves into the last 100 years of dream research to provide a thought-provoking introduction to what...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780671870744Author Scott WetzlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Prentice Hall & IBDPublisher Prentice Hall (a Pearson Education company)Weight(grams)...

For thousands of years, voyagers of inner space--spiritual seekers, shamans, and psychoactive drug users--have returned from their inner imaginal travels reporting encounters with alien intelligences. Inner Paths to Outer Spacepresents an innovative...

Cognitive Psychology: Revisiting the Classic Studies critically reflects upon 15 of the most influential cognitive psychology papers ever published by researchers such as Chomsky, Loftus, Tulving, and Stroop. This book will familiarise you with the...

Why do things look blurry underwater? Why do people drive too fast in fog? How do you high-pass filter a cup of tea? What have mixer taps to do with colour vision? Basic Vision: An Introduction to Visual Perception demystifies the processes through...

- The author is one of the most influential AI reseachers of recent decades.- Written in an accessible language, the book provides a probing account of AI today and proposes a new narrative to connect and make sense of events that happened in the recent...

In this long-out-of-print counterculture classic, Dr. John C. Lilly takes readers behind the scenes into the inner life of a scientist exploring inner space, or "far-out spaces," as Lilly called them. The book explains how he derived his theory of the...

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Anxiety Relief"This book is filled with solid, practical advice to defeat anxiety, based on scientifically backed techniques and years of clinical experience." Helen Odessky, PsyD, author of Stop Anxiety from Stopping...

Unlock your mind From the bestselling authors of Thinking, Fast and Slow; The Black Swan; and Stumbling on Happiness comes a cutting-edge exploration of the mysteries of rational thought, decision-making, intuition, morality, willpower, problem-solving,...

Decades of research document plants' impressive abilities: they communicate with each other, manipulate other species, and move in sophisticated ways. Lesser known, however, is that although plants may not have brains, their internal workings reveal a...

Ranging from Homer to Picasso, and from the Iranian Revolution to The Wizard of Oz, this spirited and radiant book awakens us anew to the role of color in our lives Our lives are saturated by color. We live in a world of vivid colors, and color marks our...

Safety-I is defined as the freedom from unacceptable harm. The purpose of traditional safety management is therefore to find ways to ensure this 'freedom'. But as socio-technical systems steadily have become larger and less tractable, this has become...

What is consciousness? How does the subjective character of consciousness fit into an objective world? How can there be a science of consciousness? In this sequel to his groundbreaking and controversial The Conscious Mind, David Chalmers develops a...

'An endlessly fascinating tour of the many different factors influencing our decision-making and reasoning' David Robson, author of The Expectation Effect'An eye-opening and engaging richness of information that gives us a detailed insight into the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780544334595Author Dr John W PilleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Harvest PublicationsPublisher Harvest PublicationsWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm)...

When Moral Politics was first published two decades ago, it redefined how Americans think and talk about politics through the lens of cognitive political psychology. Today, George Lakoff's classic text has become all the more relevant, as liberals and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781873385227Author Stephen McConkeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Learning TogetherPublisher Learning Together

This study synthesizes current information from the various fields of cognitive science in support of a new and exciting theory of mind. Most psychologists study horizontal processes like memory and information flow; Fodor postulates a vertical and...

This second edition of the renowned Cambridge Handbook of Creativity expands on the first edition with over two thirds new material reaching across psychology, business, entrepreneurship, education, and neuroscience. It introduces creativity scholarship...

Sport and exercise psychology has grown exponentially as an academic discipline and profession in the past decade. The dominant approach to sport and exercise psychology practice is the cognitive-behavioural approach that stems from cognitive behavioural...

In this classic work, one of the greatest mathematicians of the twentieth century explores the analogies between computing machines and the living human brain. John von Neumann, whose many contributions to science, mathematics, and engineering include...

For decades, the conventional wisdom of neuroscience held that the hardware of the brain is fixed - that we are stuck with what we were born with. But recent pioneering experiments in neuroplasticity reveal that the brain is capable not only of altering...

What if the most serious personal and global challenges won't be solved with more thinking or talking?The world is louder than ever. It's not just the noise in our ears, but also the noise on our screens and in our heads. 'Silence is golden,' the adage...

Play Anything is nothing short of brilliant... I will be recommending this provocative and entertaining book to everyone I know." u- Jane McGonigal, bestselling author of Reality is Broken and SuperBetter ife is boring: filled with meetings and...

Through a richly detailed close reading of Wilfred R. Bion's work on dreaming, as scattered across multifarious and largely unworked texts, this book argues that Bion's thinking can form a unified theory of dreams which extends and has further...

A cutting-edge guide to the psychology and neuroscience of spiritual experiences Spiritual experiences have occurred within people around the world and throughout history, up to and including the present day. The founders of every major religion...

Discover how to tap into the potential of the subconscious brain to improve memory, clear brain fog and have greater clarity of mind.Can you remember a time in your life when you felt absolutely confident, happy and free? Imagine if you could feel that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Royal Society Prize for Science Books 2007.Book InformationISBN 9781400077427Author Daniel GilbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House IncPublisher...

Language, Cognition, and Human Nature collects together for the first time much of Steven Pinker's most influential scholarly work on language and cognition. Pinker's seminal research explores the workings of language and its connections to cognition,...

Combining up-to-date scholarship with clear and accessible language and helpful exercises, Metaphor: A Practical Introduction is an invaluable resource for all readers interested in metaphor. This second edition includes two new chapters-on 'metaphors in...

'Genius... personal, poetic and truthful. [It] reads as light as a souffle, yet also has the resonant depth to haunt you for the rest of your days.' GuardianInto the Silent Land marks the debut of an astonishing new voice. Paul Broks draws on his many...

Since the so-called 'cognitive revolution' in psychology in the 1960s, it has often been said that 'behaviourism is dead'. This book demonstrates why this is not the case and how the behavioural approach has continued to flourish.Leslie begins by...

The human brain is an impossibly complex and delicate instrument - capable of extraordinary calculations, abundant creativity and linguistic dexterity. But the brain is not just the most brilliant of evolutionary wonders. It's also one of the most...

Music therapy is growing internationally to be one of the leading evidence-based psychosocial allied health professions, meeting needs right across the lifespan. Music therapy is a relational therapy in which the therapist and client collaborate to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839401077Author Anthony PeakeFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint ArcturusPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd

Cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman's exploration of the extraordinary creative genius of the mind's eye "has many virtues, of which sheer intellectual excitement is the foremost" (Nature). Hoffman explains that far from being a passive recorder of a...

Recent clinical trials show that psychedelics such as LSD and psilocybin can be given safely in controlled conditions, and can cause lasting psychological benefits with one or two administrations. Supervised psychedelic sessions can reduce symptoms of...