Cognition & Cognitive Psychology

Our understanding of how the human brain performs mathematical calculations is far from complete, but in recent years there have been many exciting...

Are we really serious about critical thinking? Are we really serious about higher order thinking? And are we serious about teaching students to thi...

Human beings seem to have been always aware of something they called consciousness and have not stopped wondering what it is, what it does, where i...

Cognitive psychologists have been interested in individual differences in complex cognitive processes and intelligence since the cognitive revoluti...

Many people view forgiveness is a pivotal process in avoiding unnecessary conflict and our ability to maintain valued relationships. The chapters i...

This book expands on the primary assumption that the human brain is a sense and purpose producing organ; we use it to understand and guide us throu...

Critical thinking, being a general competency, is usable in different professions and areas of human life. In most professions, the crucial ability...

Motor imagery, the mental rehearsal of a motor act without overt movement, has been shown to improve motor performance in healthy subjects. It is w...

Communication is a complex two-way process, involving the encoding, translation, and decoding of bother verbal and non-verbal cues. The most fundam...

Life is a series of coping with a variety of problems. Major or minor problems arise for us all the time, and our life is filled with them. Thus, w...

Working memory is the executive and attentional aspect of cognition which operates on the data held in short-term memory (which may be thought of a...

In this book, the authors discuss the psychology of loyalty. Topics include the military and political psychology of loyalty; the problem of loyalt...

Language's key function is to enable human social interaction, for which people are motivated to engage by powerful brain mechanisms. This book int...

The Ape that Understood the Universe is the story of the strangest animal in the world: the human animal. It opens with a question: How would an al...

From documentary to art-house cinema and from an abundance of onscreen images to their complete absence films that experiment variously with narr...