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81. Practicing Perfection

    Memory and Piano Performance

    By Roger Chaffin, Gabriela Imreh, Mary Crawford

    Series: Expertise: Research and Applications Series

    The memory feats of famous musicians seem almost superhuman. Can such extraordinary accomplishments be explained by the same principles that account for more ordinary, everyday memory abilities? To find out, a concert pianist videotaped her practice as she learned a new piece for performance, the...

    Published August 15th 2012 by Psychology Press
82. Semantic Priming

    Perspectives from Memory and Word Recognition

    By Timothy P. McNamara

    Series: Essays in Cognitive Psychology

    Semantic priming has been a focus of research in the cognitive sciences for more than thirty years and is commonly used as a tool for investigating other aspects of perception and cognition, such as word recognition, language comprehension, and knowledge representations. Semantic Priming:...

    Published August 15th 2012 by Psychology Press
83. Intelligence and Personality

    Bridging the Gap in Theory and Measurement

    Edited by Janet M. Collis, Samuel J. Messick, Ulrich Schiefele

    This volume brings together leading researchers in a major new effort to bridge the historical gap between the domains of ability and personality. The result is a remarkable collection of chapters analyzing critical issues at the interface--style, structure, process, and context. Contributors...

    Published August 15th 2012 by Psychology Press
84. The Development of Social Cognition and Communication

    Edited by Bruce D. Homer, Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda

    For young children, two of the most important tasks they face are learning how to communicate and learning how to think about themselves and the social world around them. The premise of this book is that these two tasks are inherently linked. The communicative routines and language that children...

    Published August 15th 2012 by Psychology Press
85. Tip-of-the-tongue States

    Phenomenology, Mechanism, and Lexical Retrieval

    By Bennett L. Schwartz

    Tip-of-the-Tongue experiences are one of those illusive oddities of human cognition. Like slips of the tongue, déjà vu, and visual illusions, TOTs dazzle us with their subjective strength, yet, at the same time, puzzle us with our frustrating inability to retrieve the desired word. This...

    Published August 15th 2012 by Psychology Press
86. Seven Views of Mind

    By Lise Wallach, Michael A Wallach

    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...

    Published August 12th 2012 by Psychology Press
87. The Evolution of Intelligence

    Edited by Robert J. Sternberg, James C. Kaufman

    How is one to understand the nature of intelligence? One approach is through psychometric testing, but such an approach often puts the "cart before the horse"--the test before the theory. Another approach is to use evolutionary theory. This criterion has been suggested by a number of individuals in...

    Published August 8th 2012 by Psychology Press
88. Visual Word Recognition Volumes 1 and 2

    Edited by James Adelman

    Series: Current Issues in the Psychology of Language

    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...

    Published August 1st 2012 by Psychology Press
89. The Neural Basis of Human Belief Systems

    Edited by Frank Krueger, Jordan Grafman

    Series: Contemporary Topics in Cognitive Neuroscience

    Is the everyday understanding of belief susceptible to scientific investigation? Belief is one of the most commonly used, yet unexplained terms in neuroscience. Beliefs can be seen as forms of mental representations and one of the building blocks of our conscious thoughts. This book provides an...

    Published July 11th 2012 by Psychology Press
90. Parenting and the Child's World

    Influences on Academic, Intellectual, and Social-emotional Development

    Edited by John G. Borkowski, Sharon Landesma Ramey, Marie Bristol-Power

    Series: Monographs in Parenting Series

    Stimulated by the publication of The Nurture Assumption by Judith Rich Harris, Parenting and the Child's World was conceived around the notion that there are multiple sources of influence on children's development, including parenting behavior, family resources, genetic and other biological factors...

    Published June 27th 2012 by Psychology Press