Cognitive Psychology category: 3003 books
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Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2006
In recent years, newspaper articles, television specials, and other media events have focused on the numerous hard decisions faced by today's youth, often pointing to teen pregnancy, drug use, and delinquency as evidence of faulty judgment. Over the past 10 years, many groups - including parents,...
by Richard de Visser, Susan Ayers
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
"As the fundamental importance of psychological aspects of medical practice becomes ever more evident, and a correspondingly greater knowledge of psychology is required of medical graduates, books like this one must become essential reading for all medical students."
- Michael Sharpe MD,...
How Children Learn to Read
Current Issues and New Directions in the Integration of Cognition, Neurobiology and Genetics of Reading and Dyslexia Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2011
This book brings together in one volume information about the neurobiological, genetic, and behavioral bases of reading and reading disabilities. In recent years, research on assessment and treatment of reading disability (dyslexia) has become a magnet for the application of new techniques and technologies...
Human Memory
Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017
This book provides a complete survey of research and theory on human memory in three major sections. A background section covers issues of the history of memory, and basic neuroscience and methodology. A core topics section discusses sensory registers, mechanisms of forgetting, and short-term/working,...
The New Reflectionism in Cognitive Psychology
Why Reason Matters
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
This volume presents detailed reviews and will be of use to anyone interested in the strengths and weaknesses of human reason. This volume will also be of use to both proponents and skeptics of dual-process theory as it represents a strong case for the wide theoretical significance of the distinction...
HCI Redux
The Promise of Post-Cognitive Interaction
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
This book explores the role of cognition in the field of human-computer interaction (HCI) assessing how the field has developed over the past thirty years and discusses where the field is heading, as we begin to live in increasingly interconnected digital environments.
Taking a broad chronological...
by Larissa Sawicki
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
The author of this book has discovered a unique approach to solve the mystery of irritable bowel syndrome disorder and other functional gastrointestinal maladies. Her knowledge will serve a reader as an eye-opener. Current books about IBS basically duplicate the same information in the narrow spectrum...
Memory, Aging and the Brain
A Festschrift in Honour of Lars-Göran Nilsson
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2009
This book brings together some of the best known experts in their fields to offer a cross-disciplinary summary of current research on human memory. More than this however, the book pays tribute to the work of Lars-Göran Nilsson and his many contributions to the psychology of human memory.
The...
Metacognitive Diversity
An Interdisciplinary Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
Metacognition refers to our awareness of our own mental processes, such as perceiving, remembering, learning, and problem solving. It is a fascinating area of research for psychologists, neuroscientists, anthropologists, sociologists and philosophers. This book explores the variability of metacognitive...
by Jonathon St. B.T. Evans, David E. Over
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
This book addresses an apparent paradox in the psychology of thinking. On the one hand, human beings are a highly successful species. On the other, intelligent adults are known to exhibit numerous errors and biases in laboratory studies of reasoning and decision making. There has been much debate...
Mental Mechanisms
Philosophical Perspectives on Cognitive Neuroscience
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2007
A variety of scientific disciplines have set as their task explaining mental activities, recognizing that in some way these activities depend upon our brain. But, until recently, the opportunities to conduct experiments directly on our brains were limited. As a result, research efforts were split between disciplines such as cognitive psychology, li
by Patrick R. Laughlin
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2011
Experimental research by social and cognitive psychologists has established that cooperative groups solve a wide range of problems better than individuals. Cooperative problem solving groups of scientific researchers, auditors, financial analysts, air crash investigators, and forensic art experts...
Backpropagation
Theory, Architectures, and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Composed of three sections, this book presents the most popular training algorithm for neural networks: backpropagation. The first section presents the theory and principles behind backpropagation as seen from different perspectives such as statistics, machine learning, and dynamical systems. The...
by Daniel S. Levine
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
The second published collection based on a conference sponsored by the Metroplex Institute for Neural Dynamics -- the first is Motivation, Emotion, and Goal Direction in Neural Networks (LEA, 1992) -- this book addresses the controversy between symbolicist artificial intelligence and neural network...