Cognitivism, Cognitive Theory

Imagery, Language and Visuo-Spatial Thinking discusses the remarkable human ability to use mental imagery in everyday life: from helping plan actio...

One problem confronting instructors in cognitive psychology courses is covering such diverse topics as pattern recognition, attention, memory, lang...

This book provides a thrilling description of preliterate children's developing ideas about writing and numerals, and it illustrates well the many ...

This book is a practical guide to building computational models of high-level cognitive processes and systems. High-level processes are those centr...

Combining cognitive and evolutionary research with traditional humanist methods, Nancy Easterlin demonstrates how a biocultural perspective in theo...

Science writer David DiSalvo distills the latest research on how our brains work into easy-to-understand lessons that will give average readers ins...

The relationship between brain and mind is one of the most baffling problems in science but potentially one of the most interesting. First publishe...

The empirical and theoretical analysis of executive control processes, dormant for many years, has grown to become one of the most fertile areas of...

This collection of essays by leading scholars in the field of childhood development focus on the critical issues and questions that need to be addr...

"The question for me is how can the human mind occur in the physical universe? We now know that the world is governed by physics. We now understand...

The cognitive foundations of geometry have puzzled academics for a long time, and even today are mostly unknown to many scholars, including mathema...

The ways we know, think and believe about a whole variety of key areas - different forms of discourse, psychotherapy as well as religion - have muc...

Teleosemantics seeks to explain meaning and other intentional phenomena in terms of their function in the life of the species. This volume of new e...

In Exploring Robotic Minds: Actions, Symbols, and Consciousness as Self-Organizing Dynamic Phenomena, Jun Tani sets out to answer an essential and ...

The battle between religion and science, competing methods of knowing ourselves and our world, has been raging for many centuries. Now scientists t...

'The question for me is how can the human mind occur in the physical universe. We now know that the world is governed by physics. We now understand...

Over the past two decades, a new picture of the cognitive unconscious has emerged from a variety of disciplines that are broadly part of cognitive ...

Leading philosophers and psychologists join forces to investigate a set of problems to do with agency and self-awareness, in seventeen specially wr...

Poetry is the most complex and intricate of human language used across all languages and cultures. Its relation to the worlds of human experience h...

What distinguishes humankind from other species? A leading candidate is our facility at mutual understanding ("theory of mind"), our ability to asc...

Traditional theories of associative learning have found no place for the possibility that the way in which events are perceived might change as a r...

What distinguishes humankind from other species? A leading candidate is our facility at mutual understanding ("theory of mind"), our ability to asc...

Over the last twenty years, theories and research relating to visuospatial cognition have been of central interest to a broad range of psychologist...