Memory Books

New and Published Books – Page 1

1. An Emergence Approach to Speech Acquisition

   Doing and Knowing

   By Barbara L. Davis, Lisa M. Bedore

   The central assertion in this volume is that the young child uses general skills, scaffolded by adults, to acquire the complex knowledge of sound patterns and the goal-directed behaviors for communicating ideas through language and producing speech. A child’s acquisition of phonology is seen...

   Published May 12th 2013 by Psychology Press
2. Attributes of Memory (Psychology Revivals)

   By Peter Herriot

   Series: Psychology Revivals

   First published in 1974, Attributes of Memory rejected the prevalent stress on the structure of memory. It suggests that the view of memory as a sequence of stores through which information passes is mistaken. Instead, the author emphasizes the coding process of memory by which the nominal stimulus...

   Published March 18th 2013 by Psychology Press
3. The Development of Autobiographical Memory

   By Hans J. Markowitsch, Harald Welzer

   Autobiographical memory constitutes an essential part of our personality, giving us the ability to distinguish ourselves as an individual with a past, present and future. This book reveals how the development of a conscious self, an integrated personality and an autobiographical memory are all...

   Published March 4th 2013 by Psychology Press
4. 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
5. Working Memory

   The Connected Intelligence

   Edited by Tracy Packiam Alloway, Ross G. Alloway

   Series: Frontiers of Cognitive Psychology

   Working memory – the conscious processing of information – is increasingly recognized as one of the most important aspects of intelligence. This fundamental cognitive skill is deeply connected to a great variety of human experience – from our childhood, to our old age, from our...

   Published December 6th 2012 by Psychology Press
6. Current Issues in Applied Memory Research

   Edited by Graham M. Davies, Daniel B. Wright

   Series: Current Issues in Memory

   Research on applied memory is one of the most active, interesting and vibrant areas in experimental psychology today. This book provides descriptions of cutting-edge research and applies them to three key areas of contemporary investigation: education, the law and neuroscience. In the area of...

   Published October 21st 2012 by Psychology Press
7. Cognitive Development and Working Memory

   A Dialogue between Neo-Piagetian Theories and Cognitive Approaches

   Edited by Pierre Barrouillet, Vinciane Gaillard

   The intellectual development of human beings from birth to adulthood is a fascinating phenomenon. Understanding the constraints that limit children’s intelligence, as well as discovering methods to improve it, has always been a challenging undertaking for developmental psychologists. This book...

   Published October 21st 2012 by Psychology Press
8. Memory, Aging and the Brain

   A Festschrift in Honour of Lars-Göran Nilsson

   Edited by Lars Bäckman, Lars Nyberg

   Series: Psychology Press Festschrift Series

   This book brings together some of the best known experts in their fields to offer a cross-disciplinary summary of current research on human memory. More than this however, the book pays tribute to the work of Lars-Göran Nilsson and his many contributions to the psychology of human memory. The book...

   Published October 21st 2012 by Psychology Press
9. Cognitive Illusions

   A Handbook on Fallacies and Biases in Thinking, Judgement and Memory

   Edited by Rüdiger F Pohl

   Cognitive Illusions investigates a wide range of fascinating psychological effects in the way we think, judge and remember in our everyday lives. At the beginning of each chapter, leading researchers in the field introduce the background to phenomena such as illusions of control, overconfidence...

   Published August 27th 2012 by Psychology Press
10. Computational, Geometric, and Process Perspectives on Facial Cognition

    Contexts and Challenges

    Edited by Michael J. Wenger, James T. Townsend

    Series: Scientific Psychology Series

    Within the last three decades, interest in the psychological experience of human faces has drawn together cognitive science researchers from diverse backgrounds. Computer scientists talk to neural scientists who draw on the work of mathematicians who explicitly influence those conducting behavioral...

    Published August 15th 2012 by Psychology Press