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Series: Carnegie Mellon Symposia on Cognition Series
The research on human expertise and complex skill acquisition that Wlliam G. Chase performed in the decade between publication of the classic chess studies he conducted with Herb Simon in 1973 and his untimely and tragic death has proven profoundly influential and enduring. Its impact spans...
To Be Published May 22nd 2013 by Psychology Press
Series: Studies in Cognition
Connectionist Models in Cognitive Psychology is a state-of-the-art review of neural network modelling in core areas of cognitive psychology including: memory and learning, language (written and spoken), cognitive development, cognitive control, attention and action. The chapters discuss neural...
To Be Published June 19th 2013 by Psychology Press
Series: Essays in Cognitive Psychology
How do we perceive the space around us, locate objects within it, and make our way through it? What do the senses contribute? This book focuses on touch in order to examine which aspects of vision and touch overlap in spatial processing. It argues that spatial processing depends crucially on...
To Be Published June 19th 2013 by Psychology Press
Series: Studies in Developmental Psychology
How are the experiences of childhood incorporated into the structures of the developing brain, and how do these changes in the brain influence behaviour? This is one of the many questions motivating research in the relatively new field of developmental cognitive neuroscience. This book provides an...
To Be Published June 19th 2013 by Psychology Press
Series: Advances in Behavioural Brain Science
The use of language is a fundamental component of much of our day-to-day life. Language often co-occurs with other activities with which it must be coordinated. This raises the question of whether the cognitive processes involved in planning spoken utterances and in understanding them are...
To Be Published June 19th 2013 by Psychology Press
Series: Current Issues in Memory
Memory and forgetting are inextricably intertwined. In order to understand how memory works we need to understand how and why we forget. The topic of forgetting is therefore hugely important, despite the fact that it has often been neglected in comparison with other features of memory. This...
To Be Published June 19th 2013 by Psychology Press
Series: Routledge Research in Music
This book studies the effects of repetitive musical rhythm on the brain and nervous system, and in doing so integrates diverse fields including ethnomusicology, psychology, neuroscience, anthropology, religious studies, music therapy, and human health. It presents aspects of musical rhythm and...
To Be Published June 30th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Explorations in Cognitive Psychology
How does the brain piece together the information required to achieve object recognition, figure-ground segmentation, object completion in cases of partial occlusion and related perceptual phenomena? This book focuses on principles of Gestalt psychology and the key issues which surround them,...
To Be Published August 5th 2013 by Psychology Press
Series: Psychology Press Classic Editions
Cognitive neuropsychology seeks to understand impairments of specific cognitive functions in relation to a model of normal cognitive processing. The conclusions drawn from the study of abnormal processes are in turn used in the development and testing of theories of normal cognition. First...
To Be Published August 6th 2013 by Psychology Press
Series: Routledge Studies in Linguistics
This book presents a study of meaning relations, linking the philosophical tradition of conceptual analysis with recent theories and methodologies in cognitive semantics. Its main concern is the extent to which analyzing meaning relations between cognate words reveal the infrastructure of the...
To Be Published September 3rd 2013 by Routledge
