Cognition & Cognitive Psychology

Using a concise question and answer format, The Perception of Time: Your Questions Answered examines basic temporal processes and the ways in which...

Vision is the most precise and precious sense we possess in biological terms, it functions close to the speed of light and is directly or indirectl...

Speech perception has been the focus of innumerable studies over the past decades. While our abilities to recognize individuals by their voice stat...

How the extraordinary multisensory phenomenon of synesthesia has changed our traditional view of the brain. A person with synesthesia might feel...

Why do we like the foods that we do? What happens when we eat not for nutrient intake but for sensory pleasure? How far are our food preferences de...

Risk perception is the subjective judgement that people make about the characteristics and severity of a risk. The phrase is most commonly used in ...

'Packed end to end with ways to see the world in new ways' Mike Krieger, cofounder, Instagram 'Designed to spark creativity, help solve problems, f...

WINNER OF THE NEAVE BOOK PRIZE 2022LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2021'One of the best books ever written about intelligence...

Scholars across the humanities and social sciences who study public memory study the ways that groups of people collectively remember the past. One...

The study of risk perception started when experts in these matters figured out that common people often disagreed about how they envisage risk, eve...

Why do things look blurry underwater? Why do people drive too fast in fog? How do you high-pass filter a cup of tea? What have mixer taps to do wit...

Does your memory change as you get older? It's common to be concerned about memory lapses, but how do you know if memory difficulties are normal or...

With a new reading of Thomas Reid on primary and secondary qualities, Christopher A. Shrock illuminates the Common Sense theory of perception. Shro...

'[A] fascinating, incisive account of how the human brain evolved to keep us orientated . . . Beautifully written and researched.' Isabella Tree, a...

How collective intelligence can transform business, government, and our everyday livesA new field of collective intelligence has emerged in recent ...

Witty, sharp and enlightening . . . This book will make you smarter' Adam Rutherford, author of A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever LivedWhat if ...

The neurological condition synaesthesia (the mixing of the senses) has for over a century provoked thought about new ways of artistic seeing. In ...

A new field of collective intelligence has emerged in the last few years, prompted by a wave of digital technologies that make it possible for orga...

Our extraordinary capacity to reason and solve problems sets us aside from other animals, but our evolved thinking processes also leave us suscepti...

You could be a genius . . . In The Genius Within, award-winning science writer David Adam reveals how frontier neuroscience can enhance your intell...