Cognitive Psychology category: 3003 books
Brain-Mind
From Neurons to Consciousness and Creativity (Treatise on Mind and Society)
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2019
How do brains make minds? Paul Thagard presents a unified, brain-based theory of cognition and emotion with applications to the most complex kinds of thinking, right up to consciousness and creativity. Neural mechanisms are used to explain mental operations for analogy, action, intention, language,...
Epistemic Entitlement
The Right to Believe
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2014
What entitles you to claims about your perceivable environment? Matthiessen suggests that it is neither your experience, nor the reliability of your cognitive processes, but rather your being in the right kind of perceptual situation.
The Structure of Thinking
A Process-Oriented Account of Mind
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Analytic philosophers and cognitive scientists have long argued that the mind is a computer-like syntactical engine, and that all human mental capacities can be described as digital computational processes. This book presents an alternative, naturalistic view of human thinking, arguing that computers...
Theoretical Issues in Psychology
Proceedings of the International Society for Theoretical Psychology 1999 Conference
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Theoretical Issues in Psychology is published as the discipline of psychology enters its (at least) third century. The year 2001 brings with it millennial reflections, as well as the strange sense of deja vu that we derive from the Kubrick movie. As to the former, a glance at the contents list of...
by M. Koehler
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012
By identifying a pervasive cultivation of attention as a perceptual and cognitive state in eighteenth-century poetry, this book explores overt themes of attention and demonstrate techniques of readerly attention.
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Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2012
Our ability to speak, write, understand speech and read is critical to our ability to function in today's society. As such, psycholinguistics, or the study of how humans learn and use language, is a central topic in cognitive science. This comprehensive handbook is a collection of chapters written...
The Conscious Brain
How Attention Engenders Experience
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
The problem of consciousness continues to be a subject of great debate in cognitive science. Synthesizing decades of research, The Conscious Brain advances a new theory of the psychological and neurophysiological correlates of conscious experience. Prinz's account of consciousness makes two main claims:...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
This groundbreaking collection represents the broad scope of cutting-edge research in Cultural Linguistics, a burgeoning field of interdisciplinary inquiry into the relationships between language and cultural cognition. The materials surveyed in its chapters demonstrate how cultural conceptualisations...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012
We perceive and understand our environment using many sensory systems-vision, touch, hearing, taste, smell, and proprioception. These multiple sensory modalities not only give us complementary sources of information about the environment but also an understanding that is richer and more complex than...
Psychophysics
A Practical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
Psychophysics: A Practical Introduction, Second Edition, is the primary scientific tool for understanding how the physical world of colors, sounds, odors, movements, and shapes translates into the sensory world of sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell; in other words, how matter translates into...
The Self and its Defenses
From Psychodynamics to Cognitive Science
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
This book presents a theory of the self whose core principle is that the consciousness of the self is a process of self-representing that runs throughout our life. This process aims primarily at defending the self-conscious subject against the threat of its metaphysical inconsistence. In other words,...
by Anonymous
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
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by Earl Hunt
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010
This book is a comprehensive survey of our scientific knowledge about human intelligence, written by a researcher who has spent more than 30 years studying the field, receiving a Lifetime Contribution award from the International Society for Intelligence. Human Intelligence takes a non-ideological...
Visual Experience
Sensation, Cognition, and Constancy
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012
'Seeing' happens effortlessly and yet is endlessly complex. One of the most fascinating aspects of visual perception is its stability and constancy. As we shift our gaze or move about the world, the light projected onto the retinas is constantly changing. Yet the surrounding objects appear stable...