New Books from Psychology Press and Routledge

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

Expertise and Skill Acquisition

The Impact of William G. Chase

Edited by James J. Staszewski

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...

Published May 19th 2013 by Psychology Press

Language and Action in Cognitive Neuroscience

Edited by Yann Coello, Angela Bartolo

Series: Contemporary Topics in Cognitive Neuroscience

This book collates the most up to date evidence from behavioural, brain imagery and stroke-patient studies, to discuss the ways in which cognitive and neural processes are responsible for language processing. Divided into six sections, the edited volume presents arguments from evolutionist,...

Published November 4th 2012 by Psychology Press

Life-Span Maintenance of Knowledge

By Harry P. Bahrick, Lynda K. Hall, Melinda K. Baker

Series: Essays in Cognitive Psychology

This volume describes how well we maintain the knowledge we acquire throughout life. Research traditionally focuses on memory for events that are retained over short time periods that can be accommodated in experiments. This book, by contrast, uniquely describes the evolution of methods suitable...

Published May 27th 2013 by Psychology Press

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

The Philosophy of Psychology

Edited by Jose Luis Bermudez, Brandon Towl

Series: Critical Concepts in Philosophy

The study of human behaviour, and the minds that produce that behaviour, has been an occupation of scholars, artists, and philosophers for millennia. But it was not until the turn of the twentieth century that psychology came into its own as a distinct field of study—and, more importantly, as a...

Published November 29th 2012 by Routledge

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

Visual Perception

An Introduction, 3rd Edition

By Nicholas Wade, Mike Swanston

Does the world appear the same to everyone? Does what we know determine what we see? Why do we see the world as we do? Vision is our most dominant sense. From the light that enters our eyes to the complex cognitive processes that follow, we derive most of our information about what things are,...

Published October 23rd 2012 by Psychology Press

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

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