Cognitive Psychology category: 3003 books
by Wolfgang Schneider
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2014
Based on decades of established research findings in cognitive and developmental psychology, this volume explores and integrates the leading scientific advances into infancy and brain-memory linkages as well as autobiographical and strategic memory. In addition, given that the predominantly classic...
by Wolfgang Schneider, Michael Pressley
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Memory development has been a central topic in developmental psychology for the past 30 years. This volume summarizes the research achievements during that era and relates those achievements to work on memory development conducted throughout the 20th century. An abridgement of Schneider and Pressley's...
Neurotheology
How Science Can Enlighten Us About Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
Religion is often cast in opposition to science. Yet both are deeply rooted in the inner workings of the human brain. With the advent of the modern cognitive neurosciences, the scientific study of religious and spiritual phenomena has become far more sophisticated and wide-ranging. What might brain...
Saying, Seeing and Acting
The Psychological Semantics of Spatial Prepositions
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
Our use of spatial prepositions carries an implicit understanding of the functional relationships both between objects themselves and human interaction with those objects.
This is the thesis rigorously explicated in Saying, Seeing and Acting. It aims to account not only for our theoretical comprehension...
Dynamic Thinking
A Primer on Dynamic Field Theory
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
Dynamic Thinking: A Primer on Dynamic Field Theory introduces the reader to a new approach to understanding cognitive and neural dynamics using the concepts of Dynamic Field Theory (DFT). Dynamic Neural Fields are formalizations of how neural populations represent the continuous dimensions of perceptual...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
The nature of memory for everyday events, and the contexts that can affect it, are controversial topics being investigated by researchers in cognitive, social, clinical, and developmental/lifespan psychology today. This book brings many of these researchers together in an attempt to unpack the contextual...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
The 17 original essays of this volume explore the relevance of the phenomenological approach to contemporary debates concerning the role of embodiment in our cognitive, emotional and practical life. The papers demonstrate the theoretical vitality and critical potential of the phenomenological tradition...
Natural Philosophy
From Social Brains to Knowledge, Reality, Morality, and Beauty (Treatise on Mind and Society)
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2019
Paul Thagard uses new accounts of brain mechanisms and social interactions to forge theories of mind, knowledge, reality, morality, justice, meaning, and the arts. Natural Philosophy brings new methods for analyzing concepts, understanding values, and achieving coherence. It shows how to unify the...
Affect-Language Interactions in Native and Non-Native English Speakers
A Neuropragmatic Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2016
This volume provides an up-to-date and evaluative review of theoretical and empirical stances on emotion and its close interaction with language and cognition in monolingual and bilingual individuals. Importantly, it presents a novel methodological approach that takes into account contextual information...
The Consciousness Paradox
Consciousness, Concepts, and Higher-Order Thoughts
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2011
A defense of a version of the higher-order thought (HOT) theory of consciousness with special attention to such topics as concepts and animal consciousness.
Consciousness is arguably the most important area within contemporary philosophy of mind and perhaps the most puzzling aspect of the world....
by Marcus Taft
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Over the last twenty years a major area of cognitive psychology has developed centred upon research into the issues of how visually presented words are processed so that they can be read and understood. The focus has been on how words are stored in the mental lexicon and retrieved during the reading...
Metaphor Wars
Conceptual Metaphors in Human Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
The study of metaphor is now firmly established as a central topic within cognitive science and the humanities. We marvel at the creative dexterity of gifted speakers and writers for their special talents in both thinking about certain ideas in new ways, and communicating these thoughts in vivid,...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2009
The ability to communicate through spoken and written language is one of the defining characteristics of the human race, yet it remains a deeply mysterious process. The young science of psycholinguistics attempts to uncover the mechanisms and representations underlying human language. This interdisciplinary...
Before Consciousness
In Search of the Fundamentals of Mind
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Without consciousness we would not have the experientially flavoured world we have, but without the non-conscious we would not have it at all; for we would not be able to breathe, eat, move, walk, feel, mimic, gesture, laugh, etc., and even see, talk, remember, reason, understand, think, imagine, and...