Cognitive Psychology category: 3003 books
by Anonymous
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2014
Get All The Support And Guidance You Need To Understand Your Child's Development! Is the fact that you would like to understand the way your child is developing but just don't know how making your life difficult... maybe even miserable? Ideally all parents should have an idea of what to expect at...
Memory
A History
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
In recent decades, memory has become one of the major concepts and a dominant topic in philosophy, sociology, politics, history, science, cultural studies, literary theory, and the discussions of trauma and the Holocaust. In contemporary debates, the concept of memory is often used rather broadly...
Out of Our Heads
Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2010
Alva Noë is one of a new breed—part philosopher, part cognitive scientist, part neuroscientist—who are radically altering the study of consciousness by asking difficult questions and pointing out obvious flaws in the current science. In Out of Our Heads, he restates and reexamines the problem...
Reading in the Brain
The New Science of How We Read
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2009
A renowned cognitive neuroscientist?s fascinating and highly informative account of how the brain acquires reading
How can a few black marks on a white page evoke an entire universe of sounds and meanings? In this riveting investigation, Stanislas Dehaene provides an accessible account of the...
The Consciousness Instinct
Unraveling the Mystery of How the Brain Makes the Mind
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
“The father of cognitive neuroscience” illuminates the past, present, and future of the mind-brain problem
How do neurons turn into minds? How does physical “stuff”—atoms, molecules, chemicals, and cells—create the vivid and various worlds inside our heads? The problem of consciousness...
by Stuart A. Newman, James Allen Evans, Jeffrey C. Schank
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
Empirical and philosophical perspectives on scaffolding that highlight the role of temporal and temporary resources in development across concepts of culture, cognition, and evolution.
"Scaffolding" is a concept that is becoming widely used across disciplines. This book investigates common...
The Visual (Un)Conscious and Its (Dis)Contents
A microtemporal approach
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014
Visual control of our actions can be unconscious as well as conscious. For example, when a pedestrian steps onto a street and then suddenly steps back, to avoid being hit by an oncoming car, the pedestrian's visual system has been able to detect the car very rapidly. Since the registration of the...
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Think, Act, & Be Happy
How to Use Chicken Soup for the Soul Stories to Train Your Brain to Be Your Own Therapist
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
Noted psychotherapist Dr. Mike Dow uses Chicken Soup for the Soul stories to show you how to be your own therapist. He addresses the key issues that most of his patients have and clearly explains how you can use the same techniques he uses with patients to solve your problems at home. This combination...
Consciousness and the Brain
Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
**WINNER OF THE 2014 BRAIN PRIZE
From the acclaimed author of Reading in the Brain, a breathtaking look at the new science that can track consciousness deep in the brain**
How does our brain generate a conscious thought? And why does so much of our knowledge remain unconscious? Thanks...
Eat To Cheat Dementia
What you eat helps you avoid it or live well with it.
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
As we live longer it’s essential we understand how best to maintain both body and brain so they can help us achieve all we wish for in life. This book is a companion to Ngaire’s ground-breaking book “Eat To Cheat Aging” (Eat To Cheat Ageing in Australia and the UK). It addresses the complexities...
Combining CBT and Medication
An Evidence-Based Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
Combining medication and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) can be challenging but can also enhance patient care. This book reviews the existing literature about the neurobiological and clinical basis in combining CBT and medication for non-psychiatrist mental health clinicians. Filled with case studies...
Creating Consilience
Integrating the Sciences and the Humanities
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2011
Calls for a "consilient" or "vertically integrated" approach to the study of human mind and culture have, for the most part, been received by scholars in the humanities with either indifference or hostility. One reason for this is that consilience has often been framed as bringing...
Constructivist Psychotherapy
Distinctive Features
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2009
Constructivist psychotherapy focuses on the meaning that clients attribute to their world, and the way that this shapes their life and contributes to their difficulties. In this book, Robert A. Neimeyer, a leading figure in the field, provides a clear and accessible explanation of the key features...
CBT for Schizophrenia
Evidence-Based Interventions and Future Directions
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
Informed by the latest clinical research, this is the first book to assemble a range of evidence-based protocols for treating the varied presentations associated with schizophrenia through Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Deals with a wide range of discrete presentations associated with schizophrenia,...