Cognitive Psychology Books

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31. Symbol Use and Symbolic Representation

    Developmental and Comparative Perspectives

    Edited by Laura Namy

    Series: Emory Cognition Project Series

    Symbol Use and Symbolic Representation: Developmental and Comparative Perspectives is the proceedings of a workshop held at Emory University in 2002 to discuss the difficult and age-old issue of what makes a symbol symbolic. The issue shifts towards exploring the relation between apparent symbolic...

    Published June 19th 2013 by Psychology Press
32. Scientific and Technological Thinking

    Edited by Michael E. Gorman, Ryan D. Tweney, David C. Gooding, Alexandra P. Kincannon

    At the turn of the 21st century, the most valuable commodity in society is knowledge--particularly new knowledge that may give a culture, company, or laboratory an adaptive advantage. Knowledge about the cognitive processes that lead to discovery and invention can enhance the probability of making...

    Published June 19th 2013 by Psychology Press
33. Psychology of Reasoning

    Theoretical and Historical Perspectives

    Edited by Ken Manktelow, Man Cheung Chung

    This collection brings together a set of specially commissioned chapters from leading international researchers in the psychology of reasoning. Its purpose is to explore the historical, philosophical and theoretical implications of the development of this field. Taking the unusual approach of...

    Published June 19th 2013 by Psychology Press
34. Applied Neuropsychology of Attention

    Theory, Diagnosis and Rehabilitation

    Edited by Michel Leclercq, Peter Zimmermann

    The concept of attention in academic psychology has been treated with varying degrees of importance over the years. From playing a key role in the 19th century, it was discarded in the first half of the 20th century, as clinical psychologists claimed it was superfluous to the essential subconscious...

    Published June 19th 2013 by Psychology Press
35. Automaticity and Control in Language Processing

    Edited by Antje Meyer, Linda Wheeldon, Andrea Krott

    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...

    Published June 19th 2013 by Psychology Press
36. Working Memory and Neurodevelopmental Disorders

    Edited by Tracy Packiam Alloway, Susan E. Gathercole

    Short-term or working memory - the capacity to hold and manipulate information mentally over brief periods of time - plays an important role in supporting a wide range of everyday activities, particularly in childhood. Children with weak working memory skills often struggle in key areas...

    Published June 19th 2013 by Psychology Press
37. The World in Your Head

    A Gestalt View of the Mechanism of Conscious Experience

    By Steven M. Lehar

    The World In Your Head: A Gestalt View of the Mechanism of Conscious Experience represents a bold assault on one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in science: the nature of consciousness and the human mind. Rather than examining the brain and nervous system to see what they tell us about the...

    Published June 19th 2013 by Psychology Press
38. The Role of Communication in Learning To Model

    Edited by Paul Brna, Michael Baker, Keith Stenning, Andree Tiberghien

    In this book, a number of experts from various disciplines take a look at three different strands in learning to model. They examine the activity of modeling from disparate theoretical standpoints, taking into account the individual situation of the individuals involved. The chapters seek to bridge...

    Published June 19th 2013 by Psychology Press
39. Unified Social Cognition

    By Norman Anderson

    Series: Scientific Psychology Series

    This eagerly awaited volume presents Anderson's cumulative progress in unified social psychology. The research is grounded in the three fundamental laws of information integration theory. Research shows these laws to apply to topics in social and personality psychology such as person cognition,...

    Published June 19th 2013 by Psychology Press
40. Methods of Thought

    Individual Differences in Reasoning Strategies

    Edited by Elizabeth Newton, Maxwell Roberts

    Series: Current Issues in Thinking and Reasoning

    How do people make inferences? How do their reasoning processes differ and why? Methods of Thought attempts to answer these questions by looking in detail at the different reasoning strategies people apply, how these are acquired, how they are selected and how use of these strategies is influenced...

    Published June 19th 2013 by Psychology Press