Cognitive Psychology category: 3003 books
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Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Spatial cognition is a broad field of enquiry, emerging from a wide range of disciplines and incorporating a wide variety of paradigms that have been employed with human and animal subjects. This volume is part of a two- volume handbook reviewing the major paradigms used in each of the contributors'...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
This work is a collection of theoretical statements from a broad range of memory researchers. Each chapter was derived from a presentation given at the 2nd International Conference on Memory, held at Abano Termi, Italy, 15th to 19th July 1996. The contributions cover imagery, implicit and explicit...
on Human Memory
Evolution, Progress, and Reflections on the 30th Anniversary of the Atkinson-shiffrin Model
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1999
The model of human memory proposed in 1968 by Atkinson and Shiffrin has the distinction of having revolutionized information-processing theory. It catapulated a whole generation of cognitive psychologists into sustained research programs that continue to be productive year after year. The book's notable...
Made for Life (PLE: Emotion)
Coping, Competence and Cognition
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Originally published in 1980, this title considers the relationship between feeling able to cope and being able to learn – that is, the interdependence of affect and cognition in children under five. It argues that in order to make full use of his cognitive capacities the child must first develop...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2016
Neuroimaging Personality, Social Cognition, and Character covers the science of combining brain imaging with other analytical techniques for use in understanding cognition, behavior, consciousness, memory, language, visual perception, emotional control, and other human attributes. Multidimensional...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Animal researchers commonly present pictures to their subjects, usually birds or monkeys, in order to infer how natural objects are perceived and conceptualised, or to discover the brain mechanisms underlying these abilities. This unique book questions the premise of this experimental approach and...
Presence
How Mindfulness and Meditation Shape Your Brain, Mind, and Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Mindfulness and one of the roads to it, meditation, have become increasingly popular as a way to promote health and well-being. Meditation can create mindfulness in daily life, which becomes an ingrained habit if applied consistently-it can boost immune function; lower levels of stress, anxiety, or...
Intelligence and Personality
Bridging the Gap in Theory and Measurement
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
This volume brings together leading researchers in a major new effort to bridge the historical gap between the domains of ability and personality. The result is a remarkable collection of chapters analyzing critical issues at the interface--style, structure, process, and context. Contributors address:
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Early Experience, the Brain, and Consciousness
An Historical and Interdisciplinary Synthesis
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2007
This new book examines the interrelationship between neuroscience and developmental science to help us understand how children differ in their capacity to benefit from their early motor and cognitive experiences. In so doing, it helps us better understand how experience affects brain growth and a child�s capacity to learn. In this interdisciplinary
Orthographies and Reading
Perspectives from Cognitive Psychology, Neuropsychology, and Linguistics
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
Originally published in 1984, the previous two decades had seen a rebirth of psychological interest in the process of reading. Attention had increasingly been directed to aspects of fluent reading, such as eye-movement control or contextual effects within the sentence, to a great extent progress had...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2005
The ability to navigate across town, comprehend an animated display of the functioning of the human heart, view complex multivariate data on a company's website, or to read an architectural blueprint and form a three-dimensional mental picture of a house are all tasks involving visuospatial thinking....
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Si nce the beginning of the 1970's the psychological study of imagery has shown a renewal of scientific interest reflected in a di verse body of theory, research paradigms, and data, which, with dil1iculty, ean be managed by a reader interested in imagery. Further, ment. al i lllagery appears to be...
Advances in Biolinguistics
The Human Language Faculty and Its Biological Basis
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
Biolinguistics is a highly interdisciplinary field that seeks the rapprochement between linguistics and biology. Linking theoretical linguistics, theoretical biology, genetics, neuroscience and cognitive psychology, this book offers a collection of chapters situating the enterprise conceptually, highlighting...
International Conference of the Learning Sciences
Facing the Challenges of Complex Real-world Settings
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
The field of the learning sciences is concerned with educational research from the dual perspectives of human cognition and computing technologies, and the application of this research in three integrated areas:
*Design: Design of learning and teaching environments, tools, or media, including innovative...