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...

This book brings together psychometric, cognitive science, policy, and content domain perspectives on new approaches to educational assessment -- i...

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 volume presents a theoretical framework for understanding consciousness and learning. Drawing on work in cognitive psychology and philosophy, ...

This volume is a festschrift dedicated to James J. Jenkins, a pioneer in many areas of experimental psychology. It has three major goals: to provid...

One of the most profound insights of the dynamic systems perspective is that new structures resulting from the developmental process do not need to...

This volume explores higher level, critical, and creative thinking, as well as reflective decision making and problem solving -- what teachers shou...

There are many ways to approach the understanding of consciousness. Questions about these ways have occupied philosophers and metaphysicians for ce...

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

Uniting scientists who study music, child language, human psychoacoustics, and animal acoustical communication, this volume examines research on th...

In recent years, educators have become increasingly concerned with students' attempts to manage their own learning and achievement efforts through ...

First published in 1987. This book is about the processing of information. The central domain of interest is face-to-face communication in which th...

This book presents a theory of learning new causal relationships by making use of perceived regularities in the environment, general knowledge of c...

This unique volume focuses on computing systems that exhibit intelligent behavior. As such, it discusses research aimed at building a computer that...

This text focuses on two major issues: the nature of scientific inquiry and the relations between scientific disciplines. Designed to introduce the...

Some of the best current work on the development of motivation is presented in this fortieth volume of the Nebraska Symposium on Motivation. The di...

A presentation of current work that systematically explores and articulates the nature, origin and development of reasoning, this volume's primary ...

Animal Intelligence is a consolidated record of Edward L. Thorndike's theoretical and empirical contributions to the comparative psychology of lear...

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Does the capacity to learn increase or decrease over time? How does the sense of self and identity change over the adult years? What are the educat...

Intuitive Imagery puts the discoveries of modern science to work through a simple, proven technology to meet the challenges of our fast-paced chang...

Now in Paperback "This remarkable set of essays defines the role of imagination ingeneral education, arts education, aesthetics, literature, and t...

This book provides a sustained and penetrating critique of a wide range of views in modern cognitive science and philosophy of the mind, from Turin...

These essays cover: assessment systems now in place in Britain, the USA, Germany and Australia; the bureaucratic dynamics of analysis and assessmen...

As a fully documented study of a Second World War Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) operative, Our Man in Yugoslavia is absolutely unique. Its subj...