Cognitivism, Cognitive Theory

Implicit learning is said to occur when a person learns about a complex stimulus without necessarily intending to do so, and in such a way that the...

The everyday capacity to understand the mind, fancifully dubbed 'mindreading', plays an enormous role in our lives. In the latter half of the 20th ...

Music offers a unique opportunity to better understand the organization of the human brain. Like language, music exists in all human societies. Lik...

How could a poet who worked in an oral tradition maintain the momentum of his song? How could a poet such as Homer weave a tale which filled an eve...

Music offers an opportunity to better understand the organization of the human brain. Like language, music exists in all human societies. Like lang...

This is the first comprehensive account of the phonology of Hungarian to have been published in English. Hungarian is a Uralic (Finno-Ugric) langua...

This book explores a new approach to understanding the human mind - rational analysis - that regards thinking as a facility adapted to the structur...

From childhood, each of us develops our own personal set of theories and beliefs about the world in which we live. Given the impossibility of knowi...

The brain is a cognitive organ, and regions of the brain that traverse brainstem and cortical sites orchestrate the expression of bodily sensibilit...

Contains articles by eminent scholars who examine the processes involved in visual attention and the underlying physiological mechanisms that may b...

Is jealousy eliminable? If so, at what cost? What are the connections between pride the sin and the pride insisted on by identity politics? How can...

Recreative Minds develops a philosophical theory of imagination that draws upon recent theories and results in psychology. Ideas about how we read ...

The purpose of this contribution to the Counterpoints series is to compare and contrast different conceptions of working memory. This is one of the...

Implicit knowledge, a term coined by Reber in 1965, is acquired independent of conscious attempts to learn, and generally without the capacity to c...

Wertsch argues against reductionist accounts of human cognition and proposes a sociocultural perspective, which moves beyond the isolated individua...

Although much human action serves as proof that irrational behaviour is remarkably common, certain forms of irrationality–most incontinent action a...

Sexual harassment in the workplace, date rape, and domestic violence dominate the headlines and have recently sparked scholarly debates about the n...

This volume provides the first comprehensive examination of deaf children's development. In examining its role from the pre-natal period to adultho...

This work presents a systematic analysis of the psychological phenomena associated with the concept of mental representations--also referred to as ...

Thau maintains that our conception of consciousness begins with and depends upon a few fundamental errors. He elucidates these errors by discussing...

Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart invites readers to embark on a new journey into a land of rationality that differs from the familiar territory...

This book provides both a review of the literature and a theoretical framework for understanding the development of visual attention from infancy t...

Implicit memory refers to a change in task performance due to an earlier experience that is not consciously remembered. The topic of implicit memor...

Judgments Under Stress presents a new and exciting approach to understanding the effects of stressful conditions on judgment and decision making --...