Cognitive Psychology category: 3003 books
Context and Cognition
Ways of Learning and Knowing
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
Originally published in 1993, the study of cognitive development in children had moved from a focus on the intellectual processes of the individual studied in relative isolation, as in the classic work of Piaget, to a concern in the 1970s and 1980s with social cognition characterized by Vygotsky's...
The Neuroscience of Emotion
A New Synthesis
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
A new framework for the neuroscientific study of emotions in humans and animals
The Neuroscience of Emotion presents a new framework for the neuroscientific study of emotion across species. Written by Ralph Adolphs and David J. Anderson, two leading authorities on the study of emotion, this...
Comparative Psychology
Evolution and Development of Behavior, 2nd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
Comparative Psychology (second edition) is a core textbook for senior undergraduate and graduate courses in Comparative Psychology, Animal Behavior, and Evolutionary Psychology. Its main goal is to introduce the student to evolutionary and developmental approaches to the study of animal behavior.
The...
Cultural Development of Mathematical Ideas
Papua New Guinea Studies
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
Drawing upon field studies conducted in 1978, 1980 and 2001 with the Oksapmin, a remote Papua New Guinea group, Geoffrey B. Saxe traces the emergence of new forms of numerical representations and ideas in the social history of the community. In traditional life, the Oksapmin used a counting system...
The Anorexia Recovery Skills Workbook
A Comprehensive Guide to Cope with Difficult Emotions, Embrace Self-Acceptance, and Prevent Relapse
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
If you have anorexia, there is hope for a full recovery. The Anorexia Recovery Skills Workbook offers an integrated and comprehensive program to help you rebuild a healthy relationship with food, gain a sense of autonomy and independence, develop a sense of self-worth and self-esteem, and set healthy...
by Morten H. Christiansen, Christopher Collins, Shimon Edelman
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Languages differ from one another in bewildering and seemingly arbitrary ways. For example, in English, the verb precedes the direct object ('understand the proof'), but in Japanese, the direct object comes first. In some languages, such as Mohawk, it is not even possible to establish a basic word...
Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Technology
Theoretical and Cognitive Issues
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013
This book contains contributions presented during the international conference on Model-Based Reasoning (MBR´012), held on June 21-23 in Sestri Levante, Italy. Interdisciplinary researchers discuss in this volume how scientific cognition and other kinds of cognition make use of models, abduction,...
Eye Tracking
A comprehensive guide to methods and measures
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2011
We make 3-5 eye movements per second, and these movements are crucial in helping us deal with the vast amounts of information we encounter in our everyday lives. In recent years, thanks to the development of eye tracking technology, there has been a growing interest in monitoring and measuring these...
Insight
On the Origins of New Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
Research on insight problem solving examines how new ideas are generated to solve problems that initially resist the application of prior knowledge or analogue solutions. In the laboratory, insight problems are designed to create an impasse; overcoming the impasse is sometimes accompanied by a distinctive...
The Two Selves
Their Metaphysical Commitments and Functional Independence
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
The Two Selves takes the position that the self is not a "thing" easily reduced to an object of scientific analysis. Rather, the self consists in a multiplicity of aspects, some of which have a neuro-cognitive basis (and thus are amenable to scientific inquiry) while other aspects are best construed...
Working Memory and Second Language Learning
Towards an Integrated Approach
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
This book introduces an approach to understanding and measuring working memory components and functions in second language learning, processing and development. It presents comprehensive, thorough and updated reviews of relevant literatures from cognitive sciences and applied linguistics. Drawing...
by Patrick Colm Hogan
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2011
Literature provides us with otherwise unavailable insights into the ways emotions are produced, experienced and enacted in human social life. It is particularly valuable because it deepens our comprehension of the mutual relations between emotional response and ethical judgment. These are the central...
Beauty and Sublimity
A Cognitive Aesthetics of Literature and the Arts
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
Recent decades have witnessed an explosion in neuroscientific and related research treating aesthetic response. This book integrates this research with insights from philosophical aesthetics to propose new answers to longstanding questions about beauty and sublimity. Hogan begins by distinguishing...
by Paolo, Legrenzi
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 1, 2011
«Stupido è chi lo stupido fa» diceva con incrollabile candore Forrest Gump. Per Carlo M. Cipolla invece gli stupidi esistono davvero: sono una categoria di persone dalle caratteristiche inconfondibili e incorreggibili sulle quali si è divertito a infierire nelle pagine di «Allegro ma non troppo»....