Cognitive Psychology & Cognition

In Psychology of Music: From Sound to Significance (2nd edition), the authors consider music on a broad scale, from its beginning as an acoustical signal to its different manifestations across cultures. In their second edition, the authors apply the same...

"The authors are highly respected as leading figures in the field of judgment and decision making. There are many existing books on topics related to judgment and decision making, but this book makes a unique contribution to this field because of its...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262580915Author Gilbert HarmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Adaptive Intelligence is a dramatic reappraisal and reframing of the concept of human intelligence. In a sweeping analysis, Robert J. Sternberg argues that we are using a fatally-flawed, outdated conception of intelligence; one which may promote...

A User's Guide to Thought and Meaning presents a profound and arresting integration of the faculties of the mind - of how we think, speak, and see the world. Ray Jackendoff starts out by looking at languages and what the meanings of words and...

A User's Guide to Thought and Meaning presents a profound and arresting integration of the faculties of the mind - of how we think, speak, and see the world. Ray Jackendoff starts out by looking at languages and what the meanings of words and...

The Cambridge Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning is a comprehensive and authoritative 2005 handbook covering all the core topics of the field of thinking and reasoning. Written by the foremost experts from cognitive psychology, cognitive science, and...

First Minds: Caterpillars, 'Karyotes, and Consciousness presents a novel theory of the origins of mind and consciousness dubbed the Cellular Basis of Consciousness (CBC). It argues that sentience emerged with life itself. The most primitive unicellular...

This is a very unusual book. It brings to the English speaking reader a masterpiece written some 50 years ago by one of the greatest minds of the 20th century--Nicholai Aleksandrovich Bernstein--considered the founder of many contemporary fields of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780907845232Author Alva NoeFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 600gDimensions(mm) 260mm * 174mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645055924Author Patrick L Griffin OAMFormat PaperbackPage Count 412Imprint Inspiring PublishersPublisher Inspiring PublishersWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452288843Author Read MontagueFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 325g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262038812Author Todd E. FeinbergFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Secrets of Creativity: What Neuroscience, the Arts, and Our Minds Reveal draws on insights from leading neuroscientists and scholars in the humanities and the arts to probe creativity in its many contexts, in the everyday mind, the exceptional mind, the...

Contents: * Mandalas.* I. A Study in the Process of Individuation.* II. Concerning Mandala Symbolism* Index Originally published in 1972. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously...

Can you imagine not being able to recognize those you know if they wore glasses, changed their hairstyle, or perhaps put on a hat?Prosopagnosia is a severe facial recognition disorder that is thought to impact around two per cent of the population...

How embracing untranslatable terms for well-being-from the Finnish sisu to the Yiddish mensch-can enrich our emotional understanding and experience. Western psychology is rooted in the philosophies and epistemologies of Western culture. But what of...

In The Mind within the Brain, David Redish brings together cutting edge research in psychology, robotics, economics, neuroscience, and the new fields of neuroeconomics and computational psychiatry, to offer a unified theory of human decision-making. Most...

From a scientist at the forefront of revolutionary work in neuroscience, a firsthand account of his search for the biological basis of intelligence Human intelligence is among the most powerful forces on earth. It builds sprawling cities, vast...

Metaphor and Thought, first published in 1979, reflects the surge of interest in and research into the nature and function of metaphor in language and thought. In this revised and expanded second edition, the editor has invited the contributors to update...

Building on the legacy of the groundbreaking first edition, the Editors of this unique volume have selected more than 100 leading emotion researchers from around the world and asked them to address 14 fundamental questions about the nature and origins of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262517348Author Gilbert HarmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Bradford BooksPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 137mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262530873Author Christopher CherniakFormat PaperbackPage Count 171Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 295g

Featuring contributions from world-leading researchers, this book explores the relationship between visual perception and memory. It bridges the traditionally separate fields of vision science and recognition memory and deals with an interdisciplinary...

Our body's clocks make the difference between happiness and depression, health and illness, and even life and death. The brilliant scientist Paul Kelley makes a compelling case for all organisations to allow people to work and study the hours that suit...

The Blackwell Handbook of Judgment and Decision Making is a state-of-the art overview of current topics and research in the study of how people make evaluations, draw inferences, and make decisions under conditions of uncertainty and conflict. Contains...

This book offers students an introduction to human spatial cognition and experience and is designed for graduate and advanced undergraduate students who are interested in the study of maps in the head and the psychology of space. We live in space and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262531337Author Roberto CasatiFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 369g

Musical Creativities in Practice explores the social and the cultural contexts in which creativity in music occurs. It begins by considering what constitutes creativity - taking a cross cultural view of music, while investigating creative processes far...

This 2006 book explores how people's subjective, felt experiences of their bodies in action provide part of the fundamental grounding for human cognition and language. Cognition is what occurs when the body engages the physical and cultural world and...

A long-awaited book from developmental disorders expert John Morton, Understanding Developmental Disorders: A Causal Modelling Approach makes sense of the many competing theories about what can go wrong with early brain development, causing a child to...

When William Anderson published his study of the image of life known in the West as the "Green Man", he foresaw the environmental movement's identification with his subject but not that the "Green Man" should be embraced as it has been, especially in the...

Experience is a great teacher-except when it isn't.Our personal experience is key to who we are and what we do. We judge others by their experience and are judged by ours. Society venerates experience. From doctors to teachers to managers to presidents,...

"Intelligence" has long been considered to be a feature unique to human beings, giving us the capacity to imagine, to think, to deceive, to make complex connections between cause and effect, to devise elaborate stategies for solving problems. However,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062225207Author Claudia HammondFormat PaperbackPage Count 342Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 334g

David McNeill, a pioneer in the ongoing study of the relationship between gesture and language, here argues that gestures are active participants in both speaking and thinking. He posits that gestures are key ingredients in an "imagery-language...

Why are we so innovative? Where do new ideas come from? Why are human beings so exceptionally good at innovation, leaving other species mentally in the dust? How can we hold onto new ideas once they are formed? This book explores the claim that the human...

The mind is a powerful anticipatory device. It frequently makes predictions about the future, telling us not only how the world might or will be, but also how it should be - or better - how we would like it to be. These expectancies shape our lives: they...

A wide range of philosophical essays informed by the work of Harry Frankfurt, who offers a response to each essay. The original essays in this book address Harry Frankfurt's influential writing on personal identity, love, value, moral responsibility, and...

How can a psychological framework improve the success of risk management? The management of sex offenders in the community is of paramount concern to the general public, and this is reflected in the numberous recent changes to public protection...