Cognition & Cognitive Psychology

This book presents the reader with a set of diverse, carefully developed and clearly specified systems of transcription and coding, arising from co...

A portrait in subjectivity theories and its relevance to debates in contemporary culture What am I referring to when I say "I"? This little word is...

In Volume 3, Eliot R. Smith of Purdue University proposes that social cognition theorists have placed excessive emphasis on the role of schemata, p...

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

Here, several leading experts in the area of cognitive science summarize their current research programs, tracing Herbert A. Simon's influence on t...

The burgeoning of research on signed language during the last two decades has had a major influence on several disciplines concerned with mind and ...

This book is unique in that its stress is not on the mastery of a programming language, but on the importance and value of interactive problem solv...

This book achieves a goal that was set 25 years ago when the HAM theory of human memory was published. This theory reflected one of a number of the...

This book works through some of the theoretical issues that have been accumulating in informal logic over the past 20 years. At the same time, it d...

The contribution of this volume to the literature on peer learning is its focus on approaches that reflect a common concern with cognitive processe...

Play is a paradox. Why would the young of so many species--the very animals at greatest risk for injury and predation--devote so much time and ener...

Among the many conceits of modern thought is the idea that philosophy, tainted as it is by subjective evaluation, is a shaky guide for human affair...

Metacognition is a term that spans many sub-areas in psychology and means different things to different people. A dominant view has been that metac...

This book focuses on how statistical reasoning works and on training programs that can exploit people's natural cognitive capabilities to improve t...

This book offers a comprehensive review and integration of the most recent research and theories on the role of affect in social cognition and feat...

This volume is an attempt to synthesize the understandings we have about reading to learn. Although learning at all ages is discussed in this volum...

Regression periods play a central role in the psychological development of the human baby. Studies of infants have identified 10 periods of regress...

Research on human cognitive abilities has a long history in psychology and education, and has been widely applied to practical problems in schools,...

Written for teachers, trainers, and instructional designers -- anyone who is responsible for designing or preparing instruction -- this book begins...

This volume presents in-depth investigations of the processes of meaning-making during reading at both local (discourse) and global (general knowle...

This book offers a comprehensive review and integration of the most recent research and theories on the role of affect in social cognition and feat...

Written by a group of developmental scientists, this book debates cognitive achievements in early infancy from a multidisciplinary perspective. The...

How do young children bridge the gap between "writing" a story with pictures and writing with words? How children learn to use written words to tel...

This volume presents a series of studies that expand laws, invariants, and principles of psychophysics beyond its classical domain of sensation. Th...

The chapters in this new book span the range of reading processes from early visual analysis to semantic influences on word identification, thus pr...

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...

Play is a paradox. Why would the young of so many species--the very animals at greatest risk for injury and predation--devote so much time and ener...

This festschrift represents the proceedings of a conference held in honor of Bennet B. Murdock, one of the foremost researchers and theoreticians o...

Focusing on the principles and applications of chaotic thinking, this text seeks to promote a more general understanding and acceptance of this cog...

Until recently, most theory and research in social information processing has focused attention on the cognitive activity that underlies responses ...

Why do police officers, investigators, prosecutors, judges, and others with an interest in eliciting accurate memory-based testimony need to inform...

This important volume examines the phenomena of cognition from an adaptive perspective. Rather than adhering to the typical practice in cognitive p...

What is text understanding? It is the dynamic process of constructing coherent representations and inferences at multiple levels of text and contex...

This detailed look at the development of microgenetic theory provides a comprehensive and coherent model of cognitive processing in the brain, base...

For nearly four centuries, our understanding of human development has been controlled by the debate between nativism and empiricism. Nowhere has th...

This book differs from other introductions to pragmatics in approaching the problems of interpreting language use in terms of interpersonal modelli...