Cognitive Psychology category: 3003 books
The Science of Giving
Experimental Approaches to the Study of Charity
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2011
Americans donate over 300 billion dollars a year to charity, but the psychological factors that govern whether to give, and how much to give, are still not well understood. Our understanding of charitable giving is based primarily upon the intuitions of fundraisers or correlational data which cannot...
Simplicity in Vision
A Multidisciplinary Account of Perceptual Organization
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2014
Perceptual organization is the neuro-cognitive process that enables us to perceive scenes as structured wholes consisting of objects arranged in space. Simplicity in Vision explores the intriguing idea that these perceived wholes are given by the simplest organizations of the scenes. Peter A. van...
Natural-Born Cyborgs
Minds, Technologies, and the Future of Human Intelligence
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2003
From Robocop to the Terminator to Eve 8, no image better captures our deepest fears about technology than the cyborg, the person who is both flesh and metal, brain and electronics. But philosopher and cognitive scientist Andy Clark sees it differently. Cyborgs, he writes, are not something to be feared--we...
Your Brain's Politics
How the Science of Mind Explains the Political Divide
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
At first glance, issues like economic inequality, healthcare, climate change, and abortion seem unrelated. However, when thinking and talking about them, people reliably fall into two camps: conservative and liberal. What explains this divide? Why do conservatives and liberals hold the positions they...
Successful Aging
A Neuroscientist Explores the Power and Potential of Our Lives
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2020
Author of the iconic bestsellers This Is Your Brain on Music and The Organized Mind, Daniel Levitin turns his keen insights to what happens in our brains as we age; why we should think about health span, not life span; and, based on a rigorous analysis of neuroscientific evidence, how you can make...
Seducing the Subconscious
The Psychology of Emotional Influence in Advertising
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2012
Our relationship with ads: it's complicated
A must-read for anyone intrigued by the role and influence of the ad world, Seducing the Subconscious explores the complexities of our relationship to advertising. Robert Heath uses approaches from experimental psychology and cognitive neuroscience...
The Secrets in Their Eyes
Transforming the Lives of People with Cognitive, Emotional, Learning, or Movement Disorders or Autism by Changing the Visual Software of the Brain
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Vision therapy techniques can correct not only visual problems, but also cognitive, emotional and physical difficulties. Based on the pioneering work of Dr Melvin Kaplan, this research-based book explains the basis of vision therapy, who it can help, and the outcomes it can bring.
Visual perceptual...
Maximum Brainpower
Challenging the Brain for Health and Wisdom
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
**“A wonderfully helpful book . . . After reading it, you will understand what you must do for your brain, and why you must do it.”—Norman Doidge, M.D., New York Timesbestselling author of The Brain That Changes Itself
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Did you know that experts are often less mentally agile than jacks-of-all-trades?...
by Gill Garratt
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
Nip workplace stress in the bud with CBT
Packed with useful tips that make it easy to incorporate CBT—Cognitive Behavioral Therapy— into your working day, CBT at Work For Dummies helps you reap the benefits of a more focused working life. You'll discover how integrating CBT at work promotes...
Metapsychology of the Creative Process
Continuous Novelty as the Ground of Creative Advance
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
Many are fascinated by the phenomenon of genius and search for an understanding of its nature. Modern research is not especially helpful in elucidating the inner process or its relation to ordinary thought. The present work comes from clinical studies of focal brain injuries that dissect unconscious...
Superportraits
Caricatures and Recognition
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 1997
As Nixon's unpopularity increased during Watergate, his nose and jowls grew to impossible proportions in published caricatures. Yet the caricatures remained instantly recognizable. Caricatures can even be superportraits, with the paradoxical quality of being more like the face than the face itself.
How...
by Derek Bickerton
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
How did humans acquire cognitive capacities far more powerful than any hunting-and-gathering primate needed to survive? Alfred Russel Wallace, co-founder with Darwin of evolutionary theory, set humans outside normal evolution. Darwin thought use of language might have shaped our sophisticated brains,...
by David A. Rosenbaum, Jonathan Vaughan, Brad Wyble
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Written specifically for those with no prior programming experience and minimal quantitative training, this accessible text walks behavioral science students and researchers through the process of programming using MATLAB. The book explores examples, terms, and programming needs relevant to those...
by Steven T. Griggs, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2012
Anger management is a skill that everyone needs and uses to some degree, in just about every situation. This 45 page ebook covers anger management in depth, just like I do in the office. I take you through, step-by-step, how to diagnose your anger, classify it and manage it.
It turns out anger management...