Cognition & Cognitive Psychology

Would you ask a honeybee to point at a screen and recognise a facial expression? Or ask an elephant to climb a tree? While humans and non-human spe...

Developmental theorists have struggled with defining the relations among biology, psychology, and sociocultural context, often reducing psychologic...

How do minds make societies, and how do societies change? Paul Thagard systematically connects neural and psychological explanations of mind with m...

Become the master of your world Presents 20 key concepts, or keys, to aid critical thinking Authored by one of the world's most eminent psycholo...

From the team behind Computer Science for Fun (cs4fn), The Power of Computational Thinking shows that learning to think can be fascinating fun.Yes,...

From the team behind Computer Science for Fun (cs4fn), The Power of Computational Thinking shows that learning to think can be fascinating fun.Yes,...

In The Mind within the Brain, David Redish brings together cutting edge research in psychology, robotics, economics, neuroscience, and the new fiel...

We make 3-5 eye movements per second, and these movements are crucial in helping us deal with the vast amounts of information we encounter in our e...

Does your family make you smarter? James R. Flynn presents an exciting new method for estimating the effects of family on a range of cognitive abil...

Our understanding of how the human brain performs mathematical calculations is far from complete, but in recent years there have been many exciting...

Are we really serious about critical thinking? Are we really serious about higher order thinking? And are we serious about teaching students to thi...

Human beings seem to have been always aware of something they called consciousness and have not stopped wondering what it is, what it does, where i...

Cognitive psychologists have been interested in individual differences in complex cognitive processes and intelligence since the cognitive revoluti...

Many people view forgiveness is a pivotal process in avoiding unnecessary conflict and our ability to maintain valued relationships. The chapters i...

This book expands on the primary assumption that the human brain is a sense and purpose producing organ; we use it to understand and guide us throu...

Critical thinking, being a general competency, is usable in different professions and areas of human life. In most professions, the crucial ability...

Motor imagery, the mental rehearsal of a motor act without overt movement, has been shown to improve motor performance in healthy subjects. It is w...

Communication is a complex two-way process, involving the encoding, translation, and decoding of bother verbal and non-verbal cues. The most fundam...

Life is a series of coping with a variety of problems. Major or minor problems arise for us all the time, and our life is filled with them. Thus, w...

Working memory is the executive and attentional aspect of cognition which operates on the data held in short-term memory (which may be thought of a...

In this book, the authors discuss the psychology of loyalty. Topics include the military and political psychology of loyalty; the problem of loyalt...

Language's key function is to enable human social interaction, for which people are motivated to engage by powerful brain mechanisms. This book int...

The Ape that Understood the Universe is the story of the strangest animal in the world: the human animal. It opens with a question: How would an al...

From documentary to art-house cinema - and from an abundance of onscreen images to their complete absence - films that experiment variously with na...

Smart people are not only just as prone to making mistakes as everyone else, they may be even more susceptible to them. This is the intelligence t...

Cognitive Psychology takes students to the forefront of the field and introduces them to key discoveries of cognitive psychology. With accessible a...

Brain and behaviour are intrinsically linked. Animals demonstrate a huge and complex repertoire of behaviours, so how can specific behaviours be ma...

How our ability to learn from each other has been the essential ingredient to our remarkable success as a species Human beings are a very differen...

Finding Your Voice with Dyslexia/SpLD is an essential guide to living with dyslexia and other specific learning difficulties (SpLD). The book provi...

Humans possess an extraordinary capacity for culture, from the arts and language to science and technology. But how did the human mindand the uniqu...

Parents naturally love and care for their children, but parenting requires more than just love. Informed parenting requires knowledge and understan...