Cognitive Psychology category: 3003 books
Creative People at Work
Twelve Cognitive Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 1992
To demystify creative work without reducing it to simplistic formulas, Doris Wallace and Howard Gruber, one of the world's foremost authorities on creativity, have produced a unique book exploring the creative process in the arts and sciences. The book's original "evolving systems approach" treats...
by Nelson Cowan
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
The idea of one's memory "filling up" is a humorous misconception of how memory in general is thought to work; it is actually has no capacity limit. However, the idea of a "full brain" makes more sense with reference to working memory, which is the limited amount of information...
Cognition Beyond the Brain
Computation, Interactivity and Human Artifice
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
This book challenges neurocentrism by advocating a systemic view of cognition based on investigating how action shapes the experience of thinking, placing interactivity at its heart. This systemic viewpoint makes three main claims. First, that many elaborate cognitive skills like language, problem...
by Morton P. Friedman, Edward C. Carterette
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 1996
Cognitive Ecology identifies the richness of input to our sensory evaluations, from our cultural heritage and philosophies of aesthetics to perceptual cognition and judgment. Integrating the arts, humanities, and sciences, Cognitive Ecology investigates the relationship of perception and cognition...
Hands On, Minds On
How Executive Function, Motor, and Spatial Skills Foster School Readiness
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
A growing body of research indicates that three foundational cognitive skills—executive function, motor skills, and spatial skills—form the basis for children to make a strong academic, behavioral, and social transition to formal school. Given inequitable early learning environments or “opportunity...
Person Memory (PLE: Memory)
The Cognitive Basis of Social Perception
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Originally published in 1980, this title came about after many late night discussions between the authors during a 3-week workshop on Mathematical Approaches to Person Perception in 1974. In subsequent meetings a mutual interest emerged in the development of cognitive information processing metaphors...
Semantic Priming
Perspectives from Memory and Word Recognition
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2005
Semantic priming has been a focus of research in the cognitive sciences for more than thirty years and is commonly used as a tool for investigating other aspects of perception and cognition, such as word recognition, language comprehension, and knowledge representations. Semantic Priming: Perspectives...
by Italian National Research Council, Rosaria Conte, Cristiano Castelfranchi
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 1995
This monograph addresses the worlds of social science theory and artificial intelligence AI. The book examines the interaction of individual cognitive factors and social influence on human action and discusses the implications for developments in artificial intelligence.; This book is intended for...
Human Performance
Cognition, Stress and Individual Differences
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Human Performance provides the student and researcher with a comprehensive and accessible review of performance, in the real world and essential cognitive science theory.
Four main sections cover both theoretical and practical issues: Section One outlines the perspectives on performance offered by...
Handbook of Learning and Cognitive Processes (Volume 2)
Conditioning and Behavior Theory
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
Originally published in 1975, Volume 2 of this Handbook looks at areas traditionally associated with learning theory such as conditioning, discrimination and behavior theory. It deals with concepts and theories growing principally out of laboratory studies of conditioning and learning. The intention...
Mental Models In Cognitive Science
Essays In Honour Of Phil Johnson-Laird
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Phil Johnson-Laird's theory of mental models has proved to be an influential development in the cognitive sciences. This theory aims to provide a detailed account of both reasoning and inference on the one hand, and language on the other. It can therefore be regarded as a step toward the much-sought-after...
Cognition Beyond the Brain
Computation, Interactivity and Human Artifice
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
Cognition Beyond the Brain challenges neurocentrism by advocating a systemic view of cognition based on investigating how action shapes the experience of thinking. The systemic view steers between extended functionalism and enactivism by stressing how living beings connect bodies, technologies, language...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2005
This book examines the major progress made in recent psychological science in understanding the cognitive control of thought, emotion, and behavior and what happens when that control is diminished as a result of aging, depression, developmental disabilities, or psychopathology. Each chapter of this...
The Nature of Expertise in Professional Acting
A Cognitive View
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
For nearly 25 years, expertise has been considered an important testing ground for theories of cognition. Cognitive scientists have examined experts as diverse as chess masters, waiters, field-hockey players, and computer programmers. Recently, increased attention has been given to the arts, including...