Cognitive Psychology category: 3003 books
Gaining Control
How human behavior evolved
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
'Gaining control' tells the story of how human behavioral capacities evolved from those of other animal species. Exploring what is known about the psychological capacities of other groups of animals, the authors reconstruct a fascinating history of our own mental evolution. In the book, the authors...
The Artificial Life Route to Artificial Intelligence
Building Embodied, Situated Agents
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Originally published in 1995, this volume is the direct result of a conference in which a number of leading researchers from the fields of artificial intelligence and biology gathered to examine whether there was any ground to assume that a new AI paradigm was forming itself and what the essential...
by Fenna H. Poletiek
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
How do people search evidence for a hypothesis? A well documented answer in cognitive psychology is that they search for confirming evidence. However, the rational strategy is to try to falsify the hypothesis. This book critically evaluates this contradiction. Experimental research is discussed against...
In Order to Learn
How the Sequence of Topics Influences Learning
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2007
Order affects the results you get: Different orders of presenting material can lead to qualitatively and quantitatively different learning outcomes. These differences occur in both natural and artificial learning systems. In Order to Learn shows how order effects are crucial in human learning, instructional...
Well-Being
Positive Development Across the Life Course
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2003
This volume derived from original presentations given at a conference in Atlanta, Georgia, under the auspices of the Center for Child Well-Being. Scholars, practitioners, public health professionals, and principals in the child development community convened to address a science-based framework for...
Distributed Creativity
Thinking Outside the Box of the Creative Individual
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
This book challenges the standard view that creativity comes only from within an individual by arguing that creativity also exists ‘outside’ of the mind or more precisely, that the human mind extends through the means of action into the world. The notion of ‘distributed creativity’ is...
by James Reason
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 1990
Human Error, published in 1991, is a major theoretical integration of several previously isolated literatures. Particularly important is the identification of cognitive processes common to a wide variety of error types. Technology has now reached a point where improved safety can only be achieved...
The Nature of Language
Evolution, Paradigms and Circuits
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
The Nature of Language addresses one of the most fundamental questions of mankind: how did language evolve, and what are the neurobiological and cognitive foundations of language processing? These questions are explored from different perspectives to discuss the building blocks of language evolution...
4E Cognition and Eighteenth-Century Fiction
How the Novel Found its Feet
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2019
When the novel broke into cultural prominence in the eighteenth century, it became notorious for the gripping, immersive style of its narratives. In this book, Karin Kukkonen explores this phenomenon through the embodied style in Eliza Haywood's flamboyant amatory fiction, Charlotte Lennox's work...
Causal Models
How People Think About the World and Its Alternatives
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2005
Human beings are active agents who can think. To understand how thought serves action requires understanding how people conceive of the relation between cause and effect, between action and outcome. In cognitive terms, how do people construct and reason with the causal models we use to represent our...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2008
Since its inception some fifty years ago, cognitive science has seen a number of sea changes. Perhaps the best known is the development of connectionist models of cognition as an alternative to classical, symbol-based approaches. A more recent - and increasingly influential - trend is that of dynamical-systems-based,...
Unusual Productions in Phonology
Universals and Language-Specific Considerations
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
The universalist view that acquisition of phonology is guided by universal principles has been the dominant position for decades. More recently, an alternative view has brought into focus the relationship between developmental markedness and language-specific input frequencies. With entirely original...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
Inferencing is defined as 'the act of deriving logical conclusions from premises known or assumed to be true', and it is one of the most important processes necessary for successful comprehension during reading. This volume features contributions by distinguished researchers in cognitive psychology,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
This book brings together ancient spiritual wisdom and modern science and philosophy to address age-old questions regarding our existence, free will and the nature of conscious awareness.
Stuart Hameroff MD
Professor, Anesthesiology and Psychology, and Director, Center for Consciousness Studies
The...