Cognition & Cognitive Psychology

Now available in paper, The Architecture of Cognition is a classic work that remains relevant to theory and research in cognitive science. The new ...

Every day in classrooms, teachers and students think about and with text. Their beliefs about what text is, who created it, and how to evaluate it ...

The examination and evaluation of folk psychology and lay cognition has been carried out predominantly in two domains: personality and social psych...

Planning is defined as formulating an organized method for action in advance. Although people do not plan all the time and planning does not occur ...

Research by cognitive psychologists and mathematics educators has often been compartmentalized by departmental boundaries. Word Problems integrates...

The need for synthesis in the domain of implicit processes was the motivation behind this book. Two major questions sparked its development: Is the...

Based on the formal concept of "knowledge structures" originally proposed by Jean-Claude Falmagne and Jean-Paul Doignon, this book contains descrip...

Within the last three decades, interest in the psychological experience of human faces has drawn together cognitive science researchers from divers...

The problems of studying families arise from the difficulty in studying systems where there are multiple elements interacting with each other and w...

Since its publication in 1949, D.O. Hebb's, The Organization of Behavior has been one of the most influential books in the fields of psychology and...

The theory of information integration provides a unified, general approach to the three disciplines of cognitive, social, and developmental psychol...

This book explores the nature of one of the most ancient tools for nonverbal communication: drawings. They are naturally adaptable enough to meet a...

This book combines the wonder and awe of human creativity with the complexity of its study. The authors advance the ?biopsychosocial' perspective a...

Basic researchers unlock the secrets of nature; applied researchers unlock the means by which those secrets of nature can change people's lives. Ne...

Excellence and the highest levels of performance in the arts and sciences, sports, and games have always been an object of fascination to both scie...

To define better techniques of mathematics education, this book combines a knowledge of cognitive science with mathematics curriculum theory and re...

The power of odors to unlock human memory is celebrated in literature and anecdote, but poorly documented by science. Odors -- perhaps more than ot...

Recognizing the characteristics of children with learning disabilities and deciding how to help them is a problem faced by schools all over the wor...

Bernard Lonergan (1904-1984) was a noted Canadian philosopher and theologian. He devoted his life to articulating a generalized method of inquiry a...

In this volume, Berkowitz develops the argument that experiential and behavioral components of an emotional state are affected by many processes: s...

Introduced one hundred years ago, film has since become part of our lives. For the past century, however, the experience offered by fiction films h...

For nearly 25 years, expertise has been considered an important testing ground for theories of cognition. Cognitive scientists have examined expert...

The term "skill" encompasses an array of topics and issues. For example, individuals are skilled in a variety of domains such as chess, typing, air...