Cognitive Psychology Books

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51. Category Specificity in Brain and Mind

    Edited by Emer Forde, Glyn Humphreys

    Series: Brain, Behaviour and Cognition

    Some of the most fascinating deficits in neuropsychology concern the failure to recognise common objects from one semantic category, such as living things, when there is no such difficulty with objects from another, such as non-living things. Over the past twenty years, numerous cases of these '...

    Published December 6th 2012 by Psychology Press
52. Technology, Literacy, and the Evolution of Society

    Implications of the Work of Jack Goody

    Edited by David R. Olson, Michael Cole

    Inspired by the seminal work of Jack Goody, a historical anthropologist specializing in the study of social structure and change, Technology, Literacy, and the Evolution of Society gathers diverse perspectives of 20 distinguished historians, anthropologists, psychologists, and educators to address...

    Published December 4th 2012 by Psychology Press
53. Inferred Functions of Performance and Learning

    By Siegfried Engelmann, Donald Steely

    This ambitious, highly theoretical book provides a capstone for the careers of two very distinguished scholars. It begins with an analysis of what functions and systems must exist for any organism or machine to perform an unlearned act, that is, with an analysis of what must be "wired into" the...

    Published December 4th 2012 by Psychology Press
54. The Experience of Thinking

    How the Fluency of Mental Processes Influences Cognition and Behaviour

    Edited by Christian Unkelbach, Rainer Greifeneder

    When retrieving a quote from memory, evaluating a testimony’s truthfulness, or deciding which products to buy, people experience immediate feelings of ease or difficulty, of fluency or disfluency. Such "experiences of thinking" occur with every cognitive process, including perceiving, processing,...

    Published November 29th 2012 by Psychology Press
55. Visual Attention and Consciousness

    By Jay Friedenberg

    Consciousness is perhaps one of the greatest mysteries in the universe. This ambitious book begins with a philosophical approach to consciousness, examining some key questions such as what is meant by the term "conscious," and how this applies to vision. The book then explores major visual...

    Published November 28th 2012 by Psychology Press
56. Developmental Perspectives on Embodiment and Consciousness

    Edited by Willis Overton, Ulrich Mueller, Judith Newman

    Series: Jean Piaget Symposia Series

    Until recently, the body has been largely ignored in theories and empirical research in psychology, particularly in developmental psychology. Recently however, several conceptions of the relation between body and mind have been developed. Common among these conceptions is the idea that the body...

    Published November 27th 2012 by Psychology Press
57. Emotion Lateralisation Through the Lifespan

    Edited by Victoria Bourne, Dawn Watling, Lance Workman

    Series: Special Issues of Laterality

    A wide range of research explores patterns of lateralisation for processing emotion. Yet, relatively little explores how emotion lateralisation changes across the lifespan. This special issue addresses this gap in our understanding, focusing on what might influence the development of laterality for...

    Published November 20th 2012 by Psychology Press
58. Computational Approaches to Reading and Scene Perception

    Edited by John Henderson

    Series: Special Issues of Visual Cognition

    What we see and understand about the visual world is tightly tied to where we direct our eyes. High-resolution visual information is acquired from only a very limited region of the scene surrounding the fixation point, with the quality of visual input falling off precipitously from central vision...

    Published November 18th 2012 by Psychology Press
59. Dyslexia, Reading and the Brain

    A Sourcebook of Psychological and Biological Research

    By Alan Beaton

    Despite the wealth of literature available on the subject of dyslexia, there is little that explores the subject beyond a single theoretical framework. The need for a comprehensive review of the literature by both researchers and practitioners from different fields and theoretical backgrounds is...

    Published November 14th 2012 by Psychology Press
60. Reading and Dyslexia in Different Orthographies

    Edited by Nicola Brunswick, Sine McDougall, Paul de Mornay Davies

    This book provides a unique and accessible account of current research on reading and dyslexia in different orthographies. While most research has been conducted in English, this text presents cross-language comparisons to provide insights into universal aspects of reading development and...

    Published November 14th 2012 by Psychology Press