Experimental Psychology

Philosophers since Aristotle have explored emotion, so the new emphasis on emotion in Anglo-American philosophy is the rediscovery of a discipline ...

Response times are a fascinating source of information on how the mind is organized - the time taken to carry out an action tells us something abou...

Challenging problems both attract and repel us. They frustrate us, accelerate our pulses, cause ulcers, and may even curtail our lifespans. But the...

Executive functions are a set of cognitive processes we use to act on information, manage resources, and plan and monitor our own behaviour, all wi...

The creation and consolidation of a memory can rest on the integration of any number of possibly disparate features and contexts - colour, sound, e...

Musical Excellence offers performers, teachers, and researchers, new perspectives and practical guidance for enhancing performance and managing the...

We grow up thinking there are five senses, but we forget about the ten neglected senses of the body that both enable and limit our experience. E...

Making a Machine That Sees Like Us explains why and how our visual perceptions can provide us with an accurate representation of the external world...

The Origins of Music was first published in German in 1911. In this text Carl Stumpf set out a path-breaking hypothesis on the earliest musical sou...

Attention and learning are two of the most important topics in contemporary cognitive psychology and behavioural neuroscience. Of even more interes...

Metacognition refers to the awareness an individual has of their own mental processes (also referred to as ' thinking about thinking'). In the past...

Human behaviour is marvellous in its complexity, variability and unpredictability. Understanding it, however, is not solely the role of psychologis...

Common sense would suggest that we are in complete control of the actions we perform - that all our actions are the result of considered and consci...

Mitchell S. Green presents a systematic philosophical study of self-expression - a pervasive phenomenon of the everyday life of humans and other sp...

The scientific study of the human mind and brain has come of age with the advent of technologically advanced methods for imaging brain structure an...

For many years the Handbook of Methods in Nonverbal Behavior Research (Scherer & Ekman, 1982) has been an invaluable text for researchers looki...

Our ability to attend selectively to our surroundings - taking notice of the things that matter, and ignoring those that don't - is crucial if we a...

It is plausible that evolution could have created the human skeleton, but it is hard to believe that it created the human mind. Yet, in six or seve...

The phenomenon of hypnosis provides a rich paradigm for those seeking to understand the processes that underlie consciousness. Understanding hypnos...

The nature of attention is one of the oldest and most central problems in psychology. A huge amount of research has been produced on this subject i...

Careful data collection and analysis lies at the heart of good research, through which our understanding of psychology is enhanced. Yet the student...

'Working Memory, Thought, and Action' is the magnum opus of one of the most influential cognitive psychologists of the past 50 years. This new volu...