Cognitive Psychology category: 3003 books
Pedagogy in (E)Motion
Rethinking Spaces and Relations
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
This personal, creative, critical work from a leading scholar of psychology is rooted in three novel concepts and aims to share critical pedagogy in the spirit of nascent potential found in the context of a colonial Puerto Rico. First comes the idea of ‘pedagogy in (e)motion’, or the emotional...
by Richard W. Byrne
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
'Insight' is not a very popular word in psychology or biology. Popular terms-like "intelligence", "planning", "complexity" or "cognitive"- have a habit of sprawling out to include everyone's favourite interpretation, and end up with such vague meanings that each new writer has to redefine them for...
Coming to Our Senses
Perceiving Complexity to Avoid Catastrophes
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
In Coming to Our Senses, cognitive scientist Viki McCabe argues that prevailing theories of perception, cognition, and information cannot explain how we know the world around us. Using scientific studies and true stories, McCabe shows that the ecological disasters, political paralysis, and economic...
by Carl Stumpf
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
The Origins of Music was first published in German in 1911. In this text Carl Stumpf set out a path-breaking hypothesis on the earliest musical sounds in human culture. Alongside his research in such diverse fields as classical philosophy, acoustics, and mathematics, Stumpf became one of the most...
by Patrick Colm Hogan
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
This book explores how the creations of great authors result from the same operations as our everyday counterfactual and hypothetical imaginations, which cognitive scientists refer to as 'simulations'. Drawing on detailed literary analyses as well as recent research in neuroscience and related fields,...
Gay, Straight, and the Reason Why
The Science of Sexual Orientation
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
What causes a child to grow up gay or straight? Neuroscientist Simon LeVay summarizes a wealth of scientific evidence that points to one inescapable conclusion: Sexual orientation results primarily from an interaction between genes, sex hormones, and the cells of the developing body and brain. LeVay...
by Mike Thomas, Mandy Drake
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
This book uniquely combines CBT with the Department of Health stepped care model to provide the first comprehensive case study-approach textbook. A step-by-step guide to using CBT, the book is structured around case studies of clients who present with the most commonly encountered conditions; from...
Auto Memory
A Neuroscience Handbook on Dreams and Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2015
The human brain is the most complex system in the known universe. This system has developed according to the principles of evolution. Investigating the origins of the brain might lead to more comprehension of its functioning. Memory is the storage, retention and recall of information including past...
Everyday Thinking
Memory, Reasoning, and Judgment in the Real World
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2001
Appropriate as a textbook for courses in cognitive psychology or social cognition, Everyday Thinking reviews the rapidly growing literature on cognition in naturalistic settings. It differs from other textbooks in that, where possible, it focuses on thinking in real-world settings rather than in controlled...
Communication and Social Cognition
Theories and Methods
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2009
Communication and Social Cognition represents the explosion of work in the field of social cognition over the past 25 years. Expanding the contribution made by Social Cognition and Communication, published in 1982, this scholarly collection updates the study of communication from a social cognitive...
Memory, Consciousness and the Brain
The Tallinn Conference
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Memory and consciousness have been objects of fascination to psychologists and other brain scientists for over one hundred years. Because of the complexity of the two topics, however, and despite great efforts spent on their study, the progress in their understanding over most of this time has been rather...
Motivation, Emotion, and Cognition
Integrative Perspectives on Intellectual Functioning and Development
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2004
The central argument of this book is that cognition is not the whole story in understanding intellectual functioning and development. To account for inter-individual, intra-individual, and developmental variability in actual intellectual performance, it is necessary to treat cognition, emotion, and...
The Social Dog
Behavior and Cognition
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Dogs have become the subject of increasing scientific study over the past two decades, chiefly due to their development of specialized social skills, seemingly a result of selection pressures during domestication to help them adapt to the human environment. The Social Dog: Behaviour and Cognition...
Fit to Fly
Cognitive training for Pilots
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Α book about training yourself to the highest state of cognitive fitness you can attain and maintain.