Cognition & Cognitive Psychology

Metacognition - cognitive processes that apply to themselves - is becoming increasingly recognized as a fundamental aspect of human psychology. In ...

"This book provides an introduction to conversation analysis as an approach and a method for studying social interaction usable not only for invest...

At every point in the life span, individual differences in a sense of control are strong predictors of motivation, coping, success, and failure in ...

Praise for the First Edition `In Britain, few people can have contributed more to the development of a personal construct approach than Fay Fran...

`In this remarkably economical, clear and informed book, Mike Howe... sets about unravelling the formidable semantic, logical and empirical knots i...

This book won the Canadian Crime Writers' Arthur Ellis Award for the Best Genre Criticism/Reference book of 1991. This collection of essays is an a...

The Handbook of Cognition provides a definitive synthesis of the most up-to-date and advanced work in cognitive psychology in a single volume. The ...

Praise for the First Edition `In Britain, few people can have contributed more to the development of a personal construct approach than Fay Fran...

An interdisciplinary study of issues of language manipulation, this book explores the interpretation stage of critical discourse analysis (CDA) for...

Thomas Reid (1710-96) is increasingly being seen as a highly significant philosopher and a central figure in the Scottish Enlightenment. This editi...

`This is surely the ultimate expression of the top-down approach to consciousness, written with Sommerhoff′s characteristic clarity and precision. ...

`Folk Psychology′ - our everyday talk of beliefs, desires and mental events - has long been compared with the technical language of `Cognitive Scie...

Language Processing in Atypical Populations is an up-to-date presentation of language use and communication skills in alternative populations. It i...

Can lost memories of abuse be found in the brain? Can cognitive neuroscience illuminate the nature of traumatic memories? How reliable are delayed ...

Expertise, Pedagogy and Practice takes as its focus recent work on situated and embodied cognition, the concepts of expertise, skill and practice, ...

The issue of complexity, as applied to the way we gather information and learn, is a hallmark of this information age. The sheer amount of data, in...

This volume investigates secret diplomacy with the aim of understanding its role in shaping foreign policy.Recent events, including covert intellig...

The Nature of Concepts examines a central issue for all the main disciplines in cognitive science: how the human mind creates and passes on to othe...

This is Volume XIV of thirty-eight in a series on the General Psychology. Originally published in 1960, this study offers A Comprehensive Phenomeno...

Slow Looking provides a robust argument for the importance of slow looking in learning environments both general and specialized, formal and inform...

Richard Kearney has produced a new and revised paperback edition of his classic book Poetics of Imagining. This volume offers an accessible account...

This book closely examines what is involved in driving. It identifies the aspects of perception, attention, learning, memory, decision making and a...

This book defends and outlines the key issues surrounding the philosophy of content as demonstrated in Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations....