Cognition & Cognitive Psychology

This book provides a thoughtful and balanced look at some of the hot topics generating headlines, such as media violence, body image, social repres...

Contemporary research has found that memory is much more than the process for recalling information that has been learned and retainedit is a rich,...

Why does intelligence continue to fascinate us? Is there only one kind of intelligence, or are there multiple intelligences? Is intelligence innate...

In this volume, Ray Jackendoff and Jenny Audring embark on a major reconceptualization of linguistic theory as seen through the lens of morphology....

In today's digital age, where we are bombarded with more information than ever before, the power to influence has never been more important. whatev...

This two volume set provides the complete proceedings of the 1990 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks held in Washington, D.C. Comple...

Music and dance can change our sense of time. Both rely on synchronizing our attention and actions with sounds and with other people, both involve ...

Music and dance can change our sense of time. Both rely on synchronizing our attention and actions with sounds and with other people, both involve ...

This book offers a contemporary philosophy of life drawing upon Buddhist resources from the Vimalakirti Sutra. Among the major themes in this Mahay...

Ageing and Memory are two cultural processes that establish their own relationships with time. They affect our ways of living, in the present, and ...

The Importance of Being Rational systematically defends a novel reasons-based account of rationality. The book's central thesis is that what it is ...

Remembering Histories of Trauma compares and links Native American, First Nation and Jewish histories of traumatic memory. Using source material fr...

Cognitive Archaeology is a relatively young though fast growing discipline. The intellectual heart of cognitive archaeology is archaeology, the dis...

A core philosophical project is the attempt to uncover the fundamental nature of reality, the limited set of facts upon which all other facts depen...

It's time for a story of human evolution that goes beyond describing ape-men and talks about what women and children were doing. In a few decades,...

For years, What the Face Reveals has been a singular collection of previously published original research using the Facial Action Coding System (FA...

When we feel broken we look to be fixed, we consume books, have therapy, diet, whatever it takes! BUT true self development is not about being 'fix...

[This book] is solid in its topic coverage and deliveryñ Readers will glean a multitude of new ideas from the theories and approaches presented in ...

A fast-food chain once tried to compete with McDonalds quarter-pounder by introducing a third-pound hamburgeronly for it to flop when consumers tho...

Is the human eye like a camera? What makes your ears pop on a plane? Why did women in the Middle Ages put belladonna into their eyes? This fully u...

Is the human eye like a camera? What makes your ears pop on a plane? Why did women in the Middle Ages put belladonna into their eyes? This fully u...

Cognitive Science provides a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the study of the mind. The authors examine the mind from the perspective ...