Perception

The scientific story of first impressions--and why the snap character judgments we make from faces are irresistible but usually incorrect We make ...

Is it possible to learn something without being aware of it? How does emotion influence the way we think? How can we improve our memory?Fundamental...

A recent study indicates that 20 million people in the United States have significant sensorineural hearing loss. Approximately 95% of those people...

A thoughtful exploration of time and how we make it do our bidding

This book tells the amazing story of perception -- how experiences are created by your senses and how you use these experiences to interact with th...

In the late-1980s, visual cognition was a small subfield of cognitive psychology, and the standard texts mainly discussed just iconic memory in the...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE PHYSICS WORLD BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019'One of the deepest and most original thinkers of his generation of cognitive scientists. Hi...

This book celebrates the pioneering work and contributions of Helen J. Neville, who conducted seminal neuroimaging work using electroencephalograph...

Sensory perception: mind and matter aims at a deeper understanding of the many facets of sensory perception and their relations to brain function a...

Why Science Needs Art explores the complex relationship between these seemingly polarised fields. Reflecting on a time when art and science were co...

Smell and taste are our most misunderstood senses. Given a choice between losing our sense of smell and taste, or our senses of sight and hearing, ...

This authoritative reference provides a comprehensive examination of the nature and functions of attention and its relationship to broader cognitiv...

In this two volume festschrift, contributors explore the theoretical developments (Volume I) and applications (Volume II) in traditional cognitive ...

Philosopher Ned Block argues in this book that there is a joint in nature between perception and cognition and that by exploring the nature of that...

Sensation and Perception is a cutting edge and highly readable account of modern sensation and perception from both a cognitive and neurocognitive ...

This book offers a contemporary philosophy of life drawing upon Buddhist resources from the Vimalakirti Sutra. Among the major themes in this Mahay...

A core philosophical project is the attempt to uncover the fundamental nature of reality, the limited set of facts upon which all other facts depen...

Is the human eye like a camera? What makes your ears pop on a plane? Why did women in the Middle Ages put belladonna into their eyes? This fully u...

Is the human eye like a camera? What makes your ears pop on a plane? Why did women in the Middle Ages put belladonna into their eyes? This fully u...

Are humans effective thinkers? How do we decide what is right? Can we avoid being duped by fake news? Thinking and Reasoning is the study of how hu...

Are humans effective thinkers? How do we decide what is right? Can we avoid being duped by fake news? Thinking and Reasoning is the study of how hu...

Speech Perception and Spoken Word Recognition features contributions from the fields leading scientists, and covers recent developments and current...

This volume contains articles most of which present empirical studies in the field of systematic musicology. Contributions in particular deal with ...