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Essays in Cognitive Psychology

Series Editor: Henry L. Roediger, III, James R. Pomerantz, Alan Baddeley, Vicki Bruce, Jonathan Grainger

Essays in Cognitive Psychology is designed to meet the need for rapid publication of brief volumes in cognitive psychology.

Primary topics include perception, movement and action, attention, memory, mental representation, language and problem solving.

Furthermore, the series seeks to define cognitive psychology in its broadest sense, encompassing all topics either informed by, or informing, the study of mental processes. As such, it covers a wide range of subjects including computational approaches to cognition, cognitive neuroscience, social cognition, and cognitive development, as well as areas more traditionally defined as cognitive psychology.

Each volume in the series makes a conceptual contribution to the topic by reviewing and synthesizing the existing research literature, by advancing theory in the area, or by some combination of these missions.

The principal aim is that authors provide an overview of their own highly successful research program in an area.

Volumes also include an assessment of current knowledge and identification of possible future trends in research.

Each book is a self-contained unit supplying the advanced reader with a well-structured review of the work described and evaluated.

New and Published Books

11-20 of 33 results in Essays in Cognitive Psychology

  1. Hypothetical Thinking

    Dual Processes in Reasoning and Judgement

    By Jonathan St. B. T. Evans

    Series: Essays in Cognitive Psychology

    Hypothetical thought involves the imagination of possibilities and the exploration of their consequences by a process of mental simulation. Using a recently developed theoretical framework called Hypothetical Thinking Theory, Jonathan St. B. T. Evans provides an integrated theoretical account of a...

    Published May 16th 2007 by Psychology Press

  2. Associative Illusions of Memory

    False Memory Research in DRM and Related Tasks

    By David Gallo

    Series: Essays in Cognitive Psychology

    The last decade has seen a flurry of experimental research into the neurocognitive underpinnings of illusory memories. Using simple materials and tests (e.g., recalling words or pictures), methods such as the famed Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) task have attracted considerable attention. These...

    Published August 27th 2006 by Psychology Press

  3. Working Memory Capacity

    By Nelson Cowan

    Series: Essays in Cognitive Psychology

    The idea of one's memory "filling up" is a humorous misconception of how memory in general is thought to work; it is actually has no capacity limit. However, the idea of a "full brain" makes more sense with reference to working memory, which is the limited amount of information a person can hold...

    Published September 15th 2005 by Psychology Press

  4. The Deja Vu Experience

    By Alan S. Brown

    Series: Essays in Cognitive Psychology

    Most of us have been perplexed by a strange sense of familiarity when doing something for the first time. We feel that we have been here before, or done this before, but know for sure that this is impossible. In fact, according to numerous surveys, about two-thirds of us have experienced déj&...

    Published May 19th 2004 by Psychology Press

  5. Saying, Seeing and Acting

    The Psychological Semantics of Spatial Prepositions

    By Kenny R. Coventry, Simon C. Garrod

    Series: Essays in Cognitive Psychology

    Our use of spatial prepositions carries an implicit understanding of the functional relationships both between objects themselves and human interaction with those objects.This is the thesis rigorously explicated in Saying, Seeing and Acting. It aims to account not only for our theoretical...

    Published February 4th 2004 by Psychology Press

  6. Visuo-spatial Working Memory and Individual Differences

    By Cesare Cornoldi, Tomaso Vecchi

    Series: Essays in Cognitive Psychology

    In this timely and comprehensive text, Cesare Cornoldi and Tomaso Vecchi describe their recently developed experimental approach to the investigation of visuo-spatial cognition, based upon the analysis of individual differences. A review of the most influential theoretical advances in the study of...

    Published April 9th 2003 by Psychology Press

  7. Hypothesis-testing Behaviour

    By Fenna H. Poletiek

    Series: Essays in Cognitive Psychology

    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...

    Published December 13th 2000 by Psychology Press

  8. Mental Models and the Interpretation of Anaphora

    By Alan Garnham

    Series: Essays in Cognitive Psychology

    The interpretation of anaphora - how we interpret expressions such as definite pronouns (he, she, it) and verbal elliptical phrases (such as "did so, too") in the course of ordinary conversation or reading - is an important aspect of language comprehension. In this book the author examines the...

    Published November 8th 2000 by Psychology Press

  9. Rationality and Reasoning

    By Jonathon St. B.T. Evans, David E. Over

    Series: Essays in Cognitive Psychology

    This book addresses an apparent paradox in the psychology of thinking. On the one hand, human beings are a highly successful species. On the other, intelligent adults are known to exhibit numerous errors and biases in laboratory studies of reasoning and decision making. There has been much debate...

    Published June 16th 1999 by Psychology Press

  10. Memory for Actions

    By Johannes Engelkamp

    Series: Essays in Cognitive Psychology

    Psychological experiments demonstrate that we remember self-performed actions better and more easily than actions performed by others, which we only perceived, or actions which were only reported to us. In everyday life, we remember whether or not we have already performed certain actions....

    Published November 10th 1998 by Psychology Press

Forthcoming Books

  1. Life-Span Maintenance of Knowledge
    By Harry P. Bahrick, Lynda K. Hall, Melinda K. Baker
    To Be Published May 30th 2013
  2. Rationality and Reasoning
    By Jonathon St. B.T. Evans, David E. Over
    To Be Published May 30th 2013
  3. Space and Sense
    By Susanna Millar
    To Be Published June 19th 2013
  4. Hypothetical Thinking: Dual Processes in Reasoning and Judgement
    By Jonathan St. B. T. Evans
    To Be Published June 19th 2013
  5. Seeing and Looking: Eye Movements and Attention in Scene Perception
    By Geoffrey Underwood, Tom Foulsham
    To Be Published December 31st 2013

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