Cognitivism, Cognitive Theory

Intractability is a growing concern across the cognitive sciences: while many models of cognition can describe and predict human behavior in the la...

Brain and behaviour are intrinsically linked. Animals demonstrate a huge and complex repertoire of behaviours, so how can specific behaviours be ma...

Abstract concepts are often embodied through metaphor. For example, we talk about moving through time in metaphorical terms, as if we were moving t...

Whenever you get dressed, carry objects, write, draw, or gesture, you express knowledge about how to get things done with your hands. Ironically, t...

From self-help to medication, therapy, and cognitive neuroscience, this book traces the uses and limits of psychology. Offering a systematic explor...

Why do some surprises delightthe endings of Agatha Christie novels, films like The Sixth Sense, the flash awareness that Pips benefactor is not (an...

Combining the study of animal minds, artificial minds, and human evolution, this book examine the advances made by comparative psychologists in exp...

Many philosophers believe they can gain knowledge about the world from the comfort of their armchairs, simply by reflecting on the nature of things...

Despite American educations recent mania for standardized tests, testing misses what really matters about learning: the desire to learn in the firs...

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Memory is essential for every day life. The understanding and study of memory has continued to grow over the years, thanks to well controlled labor...

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Imagination: A Very Short Introduction explores imagination as a cognitive power and an ess...

In this concise guide, Cory F. Newman and Danielle A. Kaplan offer an evidence-based approach to supervising practitioners of cognitivebehavioral t...

Poetry puts intent into words; singing lengthens words--this is one of the earliest Chinese comments on artistic expression. Poetic language extend...

Scientific knowledge is the most solid and robust kind of knowledge that humans have because of the self-correcting character inherent in its own p...

Why do we love music? What enables us to create it, perceive it, and enjoy it? In From Perception to Pleasure, Robert Zatorre provides answers to t...

Knowing where things are seems effortless. Yet our brains devote tremendous computational power to figuring out the simplest details about spatial ...

Experimental research by social and cognitive psychologists has established that cooperative groups solve a wide range of problems better than indi...

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

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In recent years there has been a growing interest in cognition within sociology and other social sciences. Within sociology this interest cuts acro...