Cognitive Psychology News & Updates – Page 3

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    The Experience of Thinking: How the Fluency of Mental Processes Influences Cognition and Behaviour

    This book brings together the latest research on how such experiences of thinking influence cognition and behavior. The chapters present recent theoretical developments and describe the effects of these influences, as well as the practical implications of this research.

22. 

    Working Memory: The Connected Intelligence

    In this volume, the first in the new Frontiers of Cognitive Psychology Series, leading psychologists review the latest research on working memory and consider what role it plays in development and over the lifespan. It is revealed how a strong working memory is connected with success (academically and acquiring expertise) and a poor working memory is connected with failure (addictive behavior and poor decision-making).

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    Computational Approaches to Reading and Scene Perception

    This special issue of Visual Cognition brings together cutting-edge research from eight research groups around the world whose work is focused on these important topics. The goal of this special issue is to facilitate a constructive convergence of behavioral data and computational modeling to explore the fundamental nature of attention control, and particularly eye movement control, in viewing complex visual input.

24. 

    Visual Perception: An Introduction: Third Edition

    Vision is our most dominant sense. From the light that enters our eyes to the complex cognitive processes that follow, we derive most of our information about what things are, where they are, and how they move from our vision.

25. 

    Seven Views of Mind

    This book examines seven different answers to the question, "What are we talking about when we talk about the mind?" It begins by considering the dualistic view, frequently taken for granted by students, that words like "belief," "anger," and "jealousy" refer to a realm quite distinct from the physical world, and notes the difficulties associated with this view as well as why many find it compelling.

26. 

    Social and Motivational Compensatory Mechanisms for Age-Related Cognitive Decline

    Although many aspects of fluid cognition decline with advancing age, simple observation in the wild suggests that older adults, generally speaking, do very well in their day-to-day life. The study of the orchestration of cognitive, social, and motivational compensatory mechanisms in the service of effective and healthy aging provides a meaningful challenge to traditional ways of examining developmental changes in cognitive performance.

27. Psychology Press congratulates Professor Alan Baddeley!

    Professor Alan Baddeley has received this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award from the British Psychological Society’s Research Board. The Research Board makes this award each year to a psychologist with an outstanding record of personal achievements who has also made significant contributions to the advancement of psychological knowledge.

28. 

    Visual Word Recognition Volume 2: Meaning and Context, Individuals and Development

    Word recognition is the component of reading which involves the identification of individual words. Together the two volumes of Visual Word Recognition offer a state-of-the-art overview of contemporary research from leading figures in the field.

    This second volume examines how research on word recognition has been linked to the study of concepts and meaning, such as how morphemes affect word recognition, how the meaning of words affects their processing and the effect of priming on the processing of words.

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    Visual Word Recognition Volume 1: Models and Methods, Orthography and Phonology

    Word recognition is the component of reading which involves the identification of individual words. Together the two volumes of Visual Word Recognition offer a state-of-the-art overview of contemporary research from leading figures in the field.

    This first volume outlines established theory, new models and key experimental evidence used to investigate visual word recognition: lexical decision and word naming.

30. 

    Extraordinary Memories for Exceptional Events

    Series: Essays in Cognitive Psychology Series

    Not all memories are created equal. Our memories for some very exceptional events seem to stand out in our minds, and as such they may form the very core of who we are.

    This book summarizes theories and data that provide insight into these extraordinary memories for exceptional events. Topics explored include flashbulb memories, the influence of emotion on memory, the bizarre imagery effect, the humor effect, the serial position effect, and the isolation effect.