Cognitive Psychology category: 3003 books
by Judit Kormos
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
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 new integrative model of how L2 speech is produced.
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Memory, Language, and Bilingualism
Theoretical and Applied Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
The relationship between memory and language and the topic of bilingualism are important areas of research in both psychology and linguistics and are grounded in cognitive and linguistic paradigms, theories and experimentation. This volume provides an integrated theoretical/real-world approach to...
The Feeling Body
Affective Science Meets the Enactive Mind
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
A proposal that extends the enactive approach developed in cognitive science and philosophy of mind to issues in affective science.
In The Feeling Body, Giovanna Colombetti takes ideas from the enactive approach developed over the last twenty years in cognitive science and philosophy of mind...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2009
This well-established international series examines major areas of basic and clinical research within neuroscience, as well as emerging and promising subfields.
This volume explores interdisciplinary research on Attention and interaction of Attention with other cognitive processes including...
Handbook of Cognitive Science
An Embodied Approach
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2008
The Handbook of Cognitive Science provides an overview of recent developments in cognition research, relying upon non-classical approaches. Cognition is explained as the continuous interplay between brain, body, and environment, without relying on classical notions of computations and representation...
Revision Cognitive and Instructional Processes
Cognitive and Instructional Processes
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Revision Revisited LINDA ALLAL* & LUCILE CHANQUOY** *University ofGeneva, SWitzerland, **UniversityofNantes, France Revision is a fundamental component of the writing process. So fundamental that for some specialists writing is largely a matter of revising, or as Murray (1978) stated, "Writing...
by Sébastien Tremblay
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
The importance of 'situation awareness' (SA) in assessing and predicting operator competence in complex environments has become increasingly apparent in recent years. It has been widely established that SA is a contributing factor to many commercial and military accidents and incidents. Yet determining...
by Geoff Dean
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
This Brief provides a theoretical and conceptual development of a new Risk Assessment Toolbox (RAT) for the early detection of violent extremists. It is based on a neurocognitive perspective, conceptualized as ‘neuroplasticity-in-action’ arising from brain-based neural patterns expressed in...
by David Kemmerer
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Language is one of our most precious and uniquely human capacities, so it is not surprising that research on its neural substrates has been advancing quite rapidly in recent years. Until now, however, there has not been a single introductory textbook that focuses specifically on this topic.
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Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
Hallucinatory phenomena have held the fascination of science since the dawn of medicine, and the popular imagination from the beginning of recorded history. Their study has become a critical aspect of our knowledge of the brain, making significant strides in recent years with advances in neuroimaging,...
Apraxia
The Cognitive side of motor control
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Apraxia is a symptom of cerebral lesions that has puzzled clinicians and researchers for some 100 years. It has engendered many fascinating descriptions and a wide diversity of conflicting theoretical accounts. This book is the first one that gives a comprehensive account of clinical and experimental...
Vision
A Computational Investigation into the Human Representation and Processing of Visual Information
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2010
Available again, an influential book that offers a framework for understanding visual perception and considers fundamental questions about the brain and its functions.
David Marr's posthumously published Vision (1982) influenced a generation of brain and cognitive scientists, inspiring many...
Cognitive Assessment
A Multidisciplinary Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
This volume is an outgrowth of an invitational conference held in October 1991 on the main campus of Texas A&M University and sponsored by a grant from the Dean's Office of the College of Education. The expressed purpose of the conference was to allow researchers from too often dispa rate areas...
Methods of Thought
Individual Differences in Reasoning Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2004
How do people make inferences? How do their reasoning processes differ and why? Methods of Thought attempts to answer these questions by looking in detail at the different reasoning strategies people apply, how these are acquired, how they are selected and how use of these strategies is influenced...