Cognition & Cognitive Psychology

Why are we influenced by the behaviour of complete strangers? Why does the brain register similar pleasure when I perceive something as 'fair' or w...

A radical reinterpretation of how your mind works - and why it could change your life 'An astonishing achievement. Nick Chater has blown my mind' T...

Do newborns think? Do they know that three is greater than two? Do they prefer right to wrong? What about emotions--can newborns recognize happines...

Epistemological discussions of perception usually focus on something other than knowledge. They consider how beliefs arising from perception can be...

This book explores the life and experiences of one of the world's most renowned and well-respected experts in bilingualism. François Grosjean takes...

Neuropsychiatric problems after critical illness are receiving increasing attention, particularly in the critical care medicine literature, but men...

Episodic memory is a major area of research in psychology. Initially viewed as a distinct store of information derived from experienced episodes, e...

The continuities between human and animal minds are increasingly well understood. This has led many people to make claims about consciousness in an...

Evidence Based Treatment with Older Adults: Theory, Practice, and Research provides a detailed examination of five research-supported psychosocial ...

In an ideal world, our beliefs would satisfy norms of truth and rationality, as well as foster the acquisition, retention, and use of other relevan...

Since its discovery in the 1960s, a vast and wide-ranging body of research has accumulated about the dopaminergic system. Life's Rewards: Linking D...

This book, the first of its kind, puts forward a novel, unified cognitive account of skeptical doubt. Historically, most philosophers have tried to...

This textbook provides a comprehensive, but tutorial, introduction to robotics, computer vision, and control. It is written in a light but informat...

How the scientific study of magic reveals intriguing-and often unsettling-insights into the mysteries of the human mind. What do we see when we ...

'One of the most original writers around. He has profoundly influenced my thinking.' Hannah Fry Why thinking in pictures? Short answer: because th...

Nev Bourne is a hotshot programmer for the latest and greatest tech invention out there: SavePoint, the brain implant that rewinds the seconds of a...

Whilst most research concentrates on the imagined future of robotics, this book brings together a group of international researchers to explore the...

Sensory Individuals: Unimodal and Multimodal Perspectives provides an interdisciplinary, well-balanced, and comprehensive look at different aspects...