Cognitive Psychology category: 3003 books

Bringing together neurological assessments of reading and cognition, this provocative volume, originally published in 1985, presents eight major and sometimes controversial studies on the parts and patterns of the reading process. With comprehensive coverage ranging from psycholinguistics and education...

Scientists currently study memory from many different perspectives: neurobiological, ethological, animal conditioning, cognitive, behavioral neuroscience, social, and cultural. The aim of this book is to help initiate a new science of memory by bringing these perspectives together to create a unified...

A child with developmental dyslexia or an adult with a reading disorder following brain damage might read the word shoe as ‘show’, why does this happen? Most current information processing models of reading distinguish between two alternative procedures for the pronunciation of a printed...

Dans la vie de tous les jours, nous faisons constamment des prévisions, échaffaudons des hypothèses, tirons des conclusions, comme Raoul et Pétunia, les deux héros de cet ouvrage. Nous cherchons à étayer nos points de vue, ou nos décisions, sur des raisonnements fiables, tout en étant hantés...

Psychologues praticiens et chercheurs en psychologie s'intéressent de plus en plus à l'intelligence et aux moyens possibles pour l'améliorer. Mais peut-on éduquer l'intelligence ? L'auteur donne des éléments de réponse en mettant d'abord en lumière les apports de la psychologie cognitive :...

Peut-on, dans la communication, opposer une expression spontanée des émotions reposant sur des structures cérébrales primitives, et des modes plus contrôlés de comportement, sous la dépendance de structures néocorticales ? Existe-t-il une compréhension intuitive d'autrui, laquelle serait...

From the bestselling author of Learned Optimism and Authentic Happiness comes “a relentlessly optimistic guidebook on finding and securing individual happiness” (Kirkus Reviews). With this unprecedented promise, internationally esteemed psychologist Martin Seligman begins Flourish, his...

Over one billion people use the Internet globally. Psychologists are beginning to understand what people do online, and the impact being online has on behaviour. It's making us re-think many of our existing assumptions about what it means to be a social being. For instance, if we can talk, flirt,...

The goal of Advances in Clinical Child Psychology is to provide clinicians and researchers in clinical child psychology, child psychiatry, and relat­ ed mental health disciplines with an annual compilation of statements that summarize the new data, concepts, and techniques that advance our ability...

Why psychology is in peril as a scientific discipline—and how to save it Psychological science has made extraordinary discoveries about the human mind, but can we trust everything its practitioners are telling us? In recent years, it has become increasingly apparent that a lot of research...

In Psychology of Music: From Sound to Significance (2nd edition), the authors consider music on a broad scale, from its beginning as an acoustical signal to its different manifestations across cultures. In their second edition, the authors apply the same richness of depth and scope that was a hallmark...

Human psychology is deeply rooted in the culture in which people live. Introduction to Computational Cultural Psychology introduces a revolutionary approach for studying cultural psychology. Drawing on novel computational tools and in-depth case studies, Professor Yair Neuman offers thought-provoking...

This book, first published in 2007, is an international overview of the state of our knowledge in sociocultural psychology - as a discipline located at the crossroads between the natural and social sciences and the humanities. Since the 1980s, the field of psychology has encountered the growth of...

This book takes as a starting point, John Dewey's article, The Reflex Arc Concept in Psychology, in which Dewey was calling for, in short, the utilisation of systems theories within psychology, theories of behaviour that capture its nature as a vastly-complex dynamic coordination of nested coordinations....