Cognition & Cognitive Psychology

In the 1970s, the behavioral psychologist Herbert S. Terrace led a remarkable experiment to see if a chimpanzee could be taught to use language. A ...

Groping around a familiar room in the dark, or learning to read again after a traumatic brain injury; navigating a virtual landscape through an ava...

History of Cognitive Neuroscience documents the major neuroscientific experiments and theories over the last century and a half in the domain of co...

Blindfolding children from birth. Playing a piano made of live cats. Using tobacco to cure drowning. Wearing flea-coloured clothes. These actions s...

Straightening the Bell Curve offers a new way of looking at the distressingly persistent subject of intelligence research as it relates to race and...

Life can be demanding enough without us causing ourselves greater upset because we dont feel happy. Instead, lets welcome all our feelings of distr...

The chapters in this book have their origins in papers presented at one of two conferences organised by the Global Science and Technology Forum (GS...

Sensation and Perception covers in detail the perceptual processes related to vision and hearing, taste and smell, touch and pain as well as the ve...

Learn how to make real, lasting changes in your lifeWe all have bad habits - whether it's a weakness for junk food, a smartphone addiction or a lac...

We are all aging, yet most adults say they don't feel all that old. Our age is an important number, but it can also be deceiving. After the age of ...

How do infants learn a language? Why and how do languages evolve? How do we understand a sentence? This book explores these questions using recent ...

This fresh, new textbook provides a thorough and student-friendly guide to the different techniques used in cognitive neuroscience. Given the bread...

This fresh, new textbook provides a thorough and student-friendly guide to the different techniques used in cognitive neuroscience. Given the bread...

Learn how to end the self-destructive behaviours that stop you from living your best life with this breakthrough programme. Do you Put the needs ...

Previously published as Careful!The modern world can be a dangerous place, filled with fast cars, smart phones, drugs and extreme sports. Meanwhile...

This book is about computational models of reading, or models that explain (and often simulate) the mental processes that allow us to convert the m...

The world expert in multisensory perception on the remarkable ways we can use our senses to lead richer lives''Spence does for the senses what Mari...

'Highly accessible, content-rich and eminently readable . . . Fascinating and informative . . . popular science at its best.' - The ObserverHave yo...

This book was conceived as a tribute to one of the founders of the psychological study of the sense of smell, Professor Trygg Engen. The book is di...