Cognition & Cognitive Psychology

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...