Cognitive Psychology Books

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31. The Self in Time

    Developmental Perspectives

    Edited by Chris Moore, Karen Lemmon, Karen Skene

    Human reasoning is marked by an ability to remember one's personal past and to imagine one's future. Together these capacities rely on the notion of a temporally extended self or the self in time. Recent evidence suggests that it is during the preschool period that children first construct this...

    Published February 13th 2013 by Psychology Press
32. Language, Literacy, and Cognitive Development

    The Development and Consequences of Symbolic Communication

    Edited by Eric Amsel, James P. Byrnes

    Series: Jean Piaget Symposia Series

    Language, Literacy, and Cognitive Development addresses the impact of language and literacy on cognitive development. Top researchers examine the cognitive significance of the growth in children's ability to express themselves symbolically, whether that involves communicating linguistically,...

    Published February 13th 2013 by Psychology Press
33. The General Factor of Intelligence

    How General Is It?

    Edited by Robert J. Sternberg, Elena L. Grigorenko

    This edited volume presents a balanced approach to the ongoing debate of just how general the "general factor" of intelligence is. To accomplish this goal, the editors chose a number of distinct approaches to the study of intelligence--psychometric, genetic-epistemological, cognitive, biological,...

    Published February 13th 2013 by Psychology Press
34. Model Systems and the Neurobiology of Associative Learning

    A Festschrift in Honor of Richard F. Thompson

    Edited by Joseph E. Steinmetz, Mark A. Gluck, Paul R. Solomon

    This volume contains a collection of papers written by former students, postdoctoral fellows, and colleagues of Richard Thompson and represent written versions of papers presented at the Festschrift symposium. The Festschrift provided an excellent opportunity for the participants to recount their...

    Published February 12th 2013 by Psychology Press
35. Interesting Times

    An Encounter With the 20th Century 1924-

    By George Mandler

    This book is an autobiographical account of George Mandler--born in 1924--who grew up in a middle class Jewish family in Vienna. It details the fears and attempts to find a safe haven when Austria was invaded and absorbed into Nazi Germany in 1938, followed by Mandler's escape to England and...

    Published February 12th 2013 by Psychology Press
36. From Orthography to Pedagogy

    Essays in Honor of Richard L. Venezky

    Edited by Thomas R. Trabasso, John P. Sabatini, Dominic W. Massaro, Robert Calfee

    From Orthography to Pedagogy pays tribute to Richard L. Venezky's work and influence on reading, linguistics, and computer science. This book catalogs findings related to speech and language development, reading and spelling's role in infant speech development, and the present and future advances...

    Published February 4th 2013 by Psychology Press
37. Human Spatial Memory

    Remembering Where

    Edited by Gary L. Allen

    The chapters in Human Spatial Memory: Remembering Where present a fascinating picture of an everyday aspect of mental life that is as intriguing to people outside of academia as it is to scientists studying human cognition and behavior. The questions are as old as the study of mind itself: How do...

    Published January 28th 2013 by Psychology Press
38. The Psychology of Evaluation

    Affective Processes in Cognition and Emotion

    Edited by Jochen Musch, Karl C. Klauer

    The affective connotations of environmental stimuli are evaluated spontaneously and with minimal cognitive processing. The activated evaluations influence subsequent emotional and cognitive processes. Featuring original contributions from leading researchers active in this area, this book reviews...

    Published January 28th 2013 by Psychology Press
39. Figurative Language Comprehension

    Social and Cultural Influences

    Edited by Herbert L. Colston, Albert N. Katz

    Figurative language, such as verbal irony, metaphor, hyperbole, idioms, and other forms is an increasingly important subfield within the empirical study of language comprehension and use. Figurative Language Comprehension: Social and Cultural Influences is an edited scholarly book that ties...

    Published January 28th 2013 by Routledge
40. Psychology of Music

    From Sound to Significance

    By Siu-Lan Tan, Peter Pfordresher, Rom Harré

    Why are some disturbances of air molecules heard as 'noise' while others are perceived as music? What happens at the level of the sound wave, the ear, and the brain when we perform or listen to music? How do musical abilities emerge and develop, and become refined as one acquires musical expertise?...

    Published January 14th 2013 by Psychology Press