Cognition & Cognitive Psychology

Basic researchers unlock the secrets of nature; applied researchers unlock the means by which those secrets of nature can change people's lives. Ne...

What is the impact of the family environment on us, particularly with regard to our intellectual functioning? Does the role of early family environ...

Recently, research on the ways in which goals, affect, and self-regulation influence one another has enjoyed an upsurge. New findings are being pub...

This volume collects recent studies conducted within the area of medical education that investigate two of the critical components of problem-based...

Validation in Language Assessment contributes to the variety of validation approaches and analytical and interpretive techniques only recently adop...

One of the most active fields of educational research in recent years has been the investigation of problem-solving performance. Two opposing views...

This volume presents a state-of-the-science review of the most promising current European research -- and its historic roots of research -- on comp...

Proposing a new paradigm for Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), this ground-breaking book presents a research agenda for developing and te...

Excellence and the highest levels of performance in the arts and sciences, sports, and games have always been an object of fascination to both scie...

The term "skill" encompasses an array of topics and issues. For example, individuals are skilled in a variety of domains such as chess, typing, air...

The educational use of television, film, and related media has increased significantly in recent years, but our fundamental understanding of how me...

This update of the 1981 classic on neural networks includes new commentaries by the authors that show how the original ideas are related to subsequ...

This volume describes the theoretical and empirical results of a seven year collaborative effort of cognitive scientists to develop a computational...

There is a need for general theoretical principles describing/explaining effective design -- those which demonstrate "unity" and enhance comprehens...

This volume presents a theoretical framework for understanding consciousness and learning. Drawing on work in cognitive psychology and philosophy, ...

During the past two or three decades, research in cognitive science and psychology has yielded an improved understanding of the fundamental psychol...

This book's two primary objectives are to present theory and research on the role of learners' achievement-related perceptions in educational conte...

First published in 1991. The impetus for this book and the conference upon which it was based stemmed from the authors’ observation that the interr...

First published in 1978. In 1963, John Flavell posed one of the truly basic questions underlying the study of children’s thinking; his question was...

This volume explores higher level, critical, and creative thinking, as well as reflective decision making and problem solving -- what teachers shou...

This book presents a new approach to understanding the family unit and how and why it functions as it does. The approach focuses on the cognitions ...

This volume offers a comprehensive view of posters presented at the VIIth International Conference on Event Perception and Action. Arranged in orde...

This volume presents a state-of-the-science review of the most promising current European research -- and its historic roots of research -- on comp...

Much work has been done on cognitive processes and creativity, but there is another half to the picture of creativity -- the affect half. This book...