Cognitive Psychology category: 3003 books
Consciousness and Cognition
Fragments of Mind and Brain
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2011
What were the circumstances that led to the development of our cognitive abilities from a primitive hominid to an essentially modern human? The answer to this question is of profound importance to understanding our present nature. Since the steep path of our cognitive development is the attribute...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2005
The study of object category development is a central concern in the field of cognitive science. Researchers investigating visual and auditory perception, cognition, language acquisition, semantics, neuroscience, and modeling have begun to tackle a number of different but centrally related questions...
Content and Consciousness Revisited
With Replies by Daniel Dennett
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2015
What are the grounds for the distinction between the mental and the physical? What is it the relation between ascribing mental states to an organism and understanding its behavior? Are animals and complex systems vehicles of inner evolutionary environments? Is there a difference between personal and...
Beyond Nature-Nurture
Essays in Honor of Elizabeth Bates
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2004
Beyond Nature-Nurture: Essays in Honor of Elizabeth Bates is a very special tribute to the University of California at San Diego psycholinguist, developmental psychologist, and cognitive scientist Elizabeth Ann Bates, who died on December 14, 2003 from pancreatic cancer. Liz was a force of nature;...
Memory, Attention, and Aging
Selected Works of Fergus I. M. Craik
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
Memory, Attention, and Aging is a collection of some of the most influential journal articles previously published by Fergus Craik and his collaborators, with new introductory material unifying the research of this noted cognitive psychologist. The reprinted articles are grouped into six sections...
by Robert H. Logie
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Representation of the visual and spatial properties of our environment is a pivotal requirement of everyday cognition. We can mentally represent the visual form of objects. We can extract information from several of the senses as to the location of objects in relation to ourselves and to other objects...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
The Wiley Handbook on the Cognitive Neuroscience of Learning charts the evolution of associative analysis and the neuroscientific study of behavior as parallel approaches to understanding how the brain learns that both challenge and inform each other.
Covers a broad range of topics while maintaining...
Processing of Medical information in Aging Patients
Cognitive and Human Factors Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1999
This volume focuses on understanding the impact of age-related decline in cognitive abilities on medical decisions and compliance with medical instructions. It examines how medical information and the medical environment can be restructured to accommodate the decreased cognitive function associated...
Can Science Explain Religion?
The Cognitive Science Debate
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
The "New Atheist" movement of recent years has put the science-versus-religion controversy back on the popular cultural agenda. Anti-religious polemicists are convinced that the application of the new sciences of the mind to religious belief gives them the final weapons in their battle against irrationality...
Mathematical Models of Perception and Cognition Volume II
A Festschrift for James T. Townsend
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
In this two volume festschrift, contributors explore the theoretical developments (Volume I) and applications (Volume II) in traditional cognitive psychology domains, and model other areas of human performance that benefit from rigorous mathematical approaches. It brings together former classmates,...
Intelligence and Human Progress
The Story of What was Hidden in our Genes
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Written by James R. Flynn of the "Flynn effect" (the sustained and substantial increase in intelligence test scores across the world over many decades), Intelligence and Human Progress examines genes and human achievement in all aspects, including what genes allow and forbid in terms of...
Human Abilities
Their Nature and Measurement
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
This volume brings together many of the leading researchers on human intelligence and cognition to address issues including definition, measurement, and instructional design. Its publication is a result of the Inaugural Spearman Seminar recently held at the University of Plymouth -- a seminar that...
The Mind in Action
A Personal View of Cognitive Science
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Cognitive science – which draws on ideas from psychology, philosophy, linguistics and artificial intelligence (AI) – attempts to explain our mental life within a scientific framework. Its goal is, thus, to remove the last major obstacle to a unified scientific account of the natural world. In...
Mind and Religion
Psychological and Cognitive Foundations of Religion
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2005
Recent cognitive approaches to the study of religion have yielded much understanding by focusing on common psychological processes that all humans share. One leading theory, Harvey WhitehouseOs modes of religiosity theory, demonstrates how two distinct modes of organizing and transmitting religious...