Cognition & Cognitive Psychology

Understanding Cognition provides a lively, accessible and thorough introduction to this exciting and rapidly developing brannch of psychology. It...

Designed to present some of the current research on student motivation, cognition, and learning, this book serves as a festschrift for Wilbert J. M...

Volume 16 of "Advances in Motivation and Achievement" is presented in two books. In both books, leading researchers in the field review the current...

This volume offers an updated analysis of the methodology of reading and reading research since 1995, when the landmark book Verbal Protocols of Re...

Since the early 1990s, phenomenology and cognitivism have become two of the most influential approaches to film theory. Yet far from being at odd...

Body and space refer to vital and interrelated dimensions in the experience of sounds and music. Sounds have an overwhelming impact on feelings of ...

Cognitive Risk is a book about the least understood but most pervasive risk to mankind – human decision-making. Cognitive risks are subconscious an...

This is the first study to examine throughly the role of US, Soviet and Cuban Intelligence in the nuclear crisis of 1962 - the closest the world ha...

John Gibbons presents an original account of epistemic normativity. Belief seems to come with a built-in set of standards or norms. One task is to ...

Originally published in 1977, the chapters in this volume derive from a conference on Perceiving, Acting and Knowing held by the Center for Researc...

The term ‘visual perception’ covers a very wide range of psychological functions. This title, originally published in 1970, which provides a broad ...

Understanding Cognition provides a lively, accessible and thorough introduction to this exciting and rapidly developing brannch of psychology. It...

This book takes an in-depth look at the tradition of solving puzzles and considers the psychological cause and effect of the ‘Aha moment’: that fam...

A ground-breaking interdisciplinary study about conceptual origins linking hominid thinking with hominid evolution

Since the early 1990s, phenomenology and cognitivism have become two of the most influential approaches to film theory. Yet far from being at odd...

The aim of this book, originally published in 1984, was to bring together a number of approaches to this important topic. Significant advances had ...

Originally published in 1982, this book examines the current status of expectancy-value models in psychology. The focus is upon cognitive models th...

This introductory text brings together diverse perspectives and research streams on language attrition – forgetting or loss of language proficiency...

This book is about rules, and especially about human capability to create, maintain and follow rules, as a root of what makes us humans different f...

What accounts for the variety of music witnessed across the world? The answer lies in the psychological mechanisms of cultural evolution that combi...

This introductory text brings together diverse perspectives and research streams on language attrition – forgetting or loss of language proficiency...

Multilevel Grounding develops a new approach to musical meaning—Multilevel-Grounded Semantics, addressing the well- known paradox that music seems ...

This text is about doing science and the active process of reading, learning, thinking, generating ideas, designing experiments, and the logistics ...

Known for both its narrative style and scientific rigor, Principles of Behavior is the premier introduction to behavior analysis. Through an explor...

After decades of research most scholars generally agree that language acquisition is a complex and multifaceted process that involves the interacti...

Reflecting the focus of a Jean Piaget Symposium entitled Biology and Knowledge: Structural Constraints on Development, this volume presents many of...

The world is witnessing the rapid evolution of its own nervous system by an unparalleled growth in communication technology. Like the evolution of ...

It is widely recognized that visual processes modulate many social interactions. For example, the eye-gaze of another person is a powerful cue to g...