Cognitive Psychology & Cognition

This edited volume summarizes recent findings of leading researchers investigating the brain systems that underlie memory. The book reviews recent progress in understanding forms of memory in animals and humans and the interaction of cortical and...

How do human beings comprehend, evaluate, and utilize the physical environments they inhabit? In this edited volume, a distinguished group of international contributers examines in detail the interconnections between what we know about, feel, and hope to...

The Psychology of Learning and Motivation series features empirical and theoretical contributions in cognitive and experimental psychology, ranging from classical and instrumental conditioning, to complex learning and problem-solving.Book InformationISBN...

The Psychology of Learning and Motivation, Volume 72 in this preeminent series, features empirical and theoretical contributions in cognitive and experimental psychology, ranging from classical and instrumental conditioning, to complex learning and...

Knowledge and Vision, Volume 70, the latest release in the Psychology of Learning and Motivation, features empirical and theoretical contributions in cognitive and experimental psychology, ranging from classical and instrumental conditioning, to complex...

Rethinking Thought takes readers into the minds of 30 creative thinkers to show how greatly the experience of thought can vary. It is dedicated to anyone who has ever been told, "You're not thinking!", because his or her way of thinking differs...

Written by James R. Flynn of the "Flynn effect" (the sustained and substantial increase in intelligence test scores across the world over many decades), Intelligence and Human Progress examines genes and human achievement in all aspects,...

Embodied theories claim that semantic representations are grounded in sensorimotor systems, but the contribution of sensorimotor brain areas in representing meaning is still controversial. One current debate is whether activity in sensorimotor areas...

The Psychology of Learning and Motivation, Volume 71, the latest release in the series, features empirical and theoretical contributions in cognitive and experimental psychology, ranging from classical and instrumental conditioning to complex learning...

"Learning to Think: Thinking to Learn" has grown out of a conference organized by the OECD Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) in July 1989. Its purpose is to discuss and advance the state of knowledge about how young people...

An Invitation to Cognitive Science provides a point of entry into the vast realm of cognitive science, offering selected examples of issues and theories from many of its subfields. All of the volumes in the second edition contain substantially revised...

Written by the world's leading memory scientists in a highly accessible language, this volume brings together facts and theories of cognitive psychology; memory development in childhood and old age; memory impairment in brain injury and disease; the...

From an early age, humans know a surprising amount about basic physical principles, such as gravity, force, mass, and shape. We can see this in the way that young children play, and manipulate objects around them. The same behaviour has long been...

For years now, learning has been at the heart of research within cognitive psychology. How do we acquire new knowledge and new skills? Are the principles underlying skill acquisition unique to learning, or similar to those underlying other behaviours? Is...

We acquire concepts such as "atom," "force," "integer," and "democracy" long after we are born; these concepts are not part of the initial cognitive state of human beings. Other concepts like "object,"...

This book examines the practices of contesting evidence in democratically constituted knowledge societies. It provides a multifaceted view of the processes and conditions of evidence criticism and how they determine the dynamics of de- and...

Essential subject-specific guidance to the 11+ and other entrance test questions. Bond How to do 11+ Verbal Reasoning includes: *guidance and practice for the 4 key components covered in the 11+ exam *answers for each activity *tutors' tips and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780716723677Author Robert W. WeisbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint W.H.Freeman & Co LtdPublisher Macmillan LearningWeight(grams) 486g

Dance has always been an important aspect of all human cultures, and the study of human movement and action has become a topic of increasing relevance over the last decade, bringing dance into the focus of the cognitive sciences. This book discusses the...

Damage to the brain can impair language in many different ways, severely harming some linguistic functions whilst sparing others. To achieve some understanding of the apparently bewildering diversity of language disorders, it is necessary to interpret...

Psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are known to be highly heritable. Despite decades of research, however, the genetic variations conferring susceptibility to these illnesses have yet to be identified. Such genetic variations...

`To sleep: perchance to dream'. As Freud and Jung have attempted to prove, there is great significance in all our dream matter, whether it be childhood or sex, success or peril. Dreams, daydreams, premonitions, and nightmares of all kinds have fired the...

This anthology draws on the dream material of a variety of authors to explore the dream exerience in literature from pre-Christian times to the present.Book InformationISBN 9780192141309Author Stephen BrookFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint Oxford...

The Third Edition builds upon the previous edition to provide a comprehensive, coherent, and up-to-date introduction to the area of thought processes in normal human adults. The major topics covered are: thinking directed at solving well-defined...

`An excellent example of an up-to-date text, and well worth exploring... detailed and thorough' - Physiotherapy `The author has done an outstanding job of presenting in a coherent way what has become a very diverse and sometimes theoretically dense field...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780131867192Author Jean Marie StineFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Director BooksPublisher Prentice Hall Europe (a Pearson Education...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780887063589Author Gordon G. GlobusFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

First published in 1977, this is a volume about the scientific study of thinking: its possibility, its part state and its future prospects. The editors have brought together a set of readings which draw on work in cognitive psychology, artificial...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781460003589Author Orlando CeaserFormat PaperbackImprint Guardian BooksPublisher Guardian BooksWeight(grams) 64g

What is dreaming? What causes dreaming? Why are dreams so strange and why are they so hard to remember? Modern science has given us a new and increasingly clear and complete picture of how dreaming is created by the brain.This picture is important not...

Steven Rose's The Making of Memory is about just that, in both its senses: the biological processes by which we humans - and other animals - learn and remember, and how researchers can explore these mechanisms. But it is also about much more. When the...

This concise introduction to cognitive science provides undergraduate and graduate students with the theoretical foundations of classical and connectionist cognitive science to explain and teach the underlying unity of the field.About the AuthorMichael...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780135664315Author K. Thomas FinleyFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Prentice-HallPublisher Pearson Education LimitedWeight(grams) 474g

Your brain is like a sleeping giant - its potential is far greater than was generally imagined. Even the commonly heard statement that on average we use only one per cent of our brains may well be an overestimation. Tony Buzan, the leading expert in the...

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Psychodynamic Therapy reintroduces psychoanalytic and psychodynamic theory to the practice of clinical psychology in ways that are easily understandable, practical, and immediate in their application. Huprich readily demonstrates that, contrary to what...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781859063941Author Charles PhillipsFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Connections Book Publishing LtdPublisher Eddison Books Ltd

In this book, Charles Phillips presents 100 engaging puzzles and posers, tasks and challenges, specially designed to exercise your memory and improve your powers of recall. These are supplemented by practical tips and routines for developing and...

This concise introduction to cognitive science provides undergraduate and graduate students with the theoretical foundations of classical and connectionist cognitive science to explain and teach the underlying unity of the field.About the AuthorMichael...

By being guided to look at their eyes beyond the diagnosis of a problem, readers will come to understand that their visual symptoms are valuable messages through which they can be more aware of their true nature. If an eye problem exists, a person can...