Physiological & Neuro-psychology, Biopsychology

Based on the First Biannual Lifespan Development Conference, this volume offers a multidisciplinary and multidimensional approach to the study of l...

This book, a companion to William R. Uttal’s earlier work on macrotheories theories of mind-brain relationships, reviews another set of theories—th...

Neuropsychologists are being increasingly called upon to demonstrate the value of their services. This edited book introduces clinical neuropsychol...

This book brings together scholarship that contributes diverse and new perspectives on childhood amnesia – the scarcity of memories for very early ...

Kids' Club Letters provides an innovative approach to group psychotherapy for school-aged children who experience a range of social and emotional p...

The Handbook of Stress: Neuropsychological Effects on the Brain is an authoritative guide to the effects of stress on brain health, with a collecti...

Research on touch and blindness has undergone rapid transformation in recent years, with dramatic developments in technology designed to provide as...

A Neuropsychologist's Guide to Training Psychometrists: Promoting Competence in Psychological Testing provides a framework for busy neuropsychologi...

Since the emergence of Western philosophy and science among the classical Greeks, debates have raged over the relative significance of biology and ...

Originally published in 1988, in several respects this book is a tribute to the outstanding career of the late Donald B. Lindsley (1907-2003) who, ...

This fully updated edition of Developmental Neuropsychology: A Clinical Approach addresses key issues in child neuropsychology with a unique emphas...

Since the problems of race relations are worldwide, the international origins and perspectives of this excellent and timely book are especially adv...

Over the past decade, the integration of psychology and fine art has sparked growing academic interest among researchers of these disciplines. The ...

Neuropsychologists and other non-physician healthcare professionals who work in the field of neurology often struggle to develop a strong command o...

Originally published in 1987, this title intended to historically reveal, through tracing Gibson’s development, the substance of his views and how ...

Infants learn to communicate through everyday social interaction with their caregivers in a multisensory world involving sight, hearing, touch and ...

Originally published in 1974, this volume examines the behavioural similarities of obese humans and animals whose so-called feeding centre (the ven...

Originally published in 1988, neuropsychology had evolved considerably in the decade prior to publication. Methods of research had changed, new top...

Cerebellum and Cerebrum in Homeostatic Control and Cognition presents a ground-breaking hybrid-brain psychology, proposing that the cerebellum and ...

In the World Library of Psychologists series, international experts present career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces - ...

For the 25 years before publication a form of therapy known as the ‘Doman-Delacato Techniques’ had been applied to children with disabilities. The ...

Classical Greece was permeated by a spirit of rivalry. Games and sports, theatrical performances, courtroom trials, recitation of poetry, canvassin...

Offering the broadest review of psychological perspectives on human expertise to date, this volume covers behavioral, computational, neural, and ge...

Cognitive aging is a flourishing area of research. A significant amount of new data, a number of new theoretical notions, and many new research iss...

Originally published in 1980, this book contains the proceedings from a memorial conference held in honour of George A. Talland, who made a signifi...

There are few books devoted to the topic of brain plasticity and behavior. Most previous works that cover topics related to brain plasticity do not...

The purpose of this book is to provide a comprehensive overview of the way in which the two hemispheres of the brain interact. Some chapters addres...

This book describes a unique combination of research programs based on a striking variety of hypotheses and procedures directed toward understandin...

This volume describes research and theory concerning the cognitive neuroscience of attention. Filling a key gap, it emphasizes developmental change...

Reveals how meditation can be used for emotional growth, releasing trauma, and accessing inner wisdom Drawing on her 25 years of research into brai...

Since its first edition, An Introduction to Theories of Learning has provided a uniquely sweeping review of the major learning theories from the 20...

This valuable compendium advances the understanding of mental health case law, making it highly accessible to practicing forensic professionals. Di...

“A daring book to have cast into the midst of the world’s excitements, for it will itself breed new excitements. . . . It is not a book to be misse...

Connectionist Models in Cognitive Psychology is a state-of-the-art review of neural network modelling in core areas of cognitive psychology includi...

This book brings together chapters from investigators on the leading edge on this new research area to explore on the leading edge on this new rese...

This book is intended to provide an introduction to the basic structure and function of the brain and nervous system, emphasizing relationships wit...

Vision allows us to do many things. It enables us to perceive a world composed of meaningful objects and events. It enables us to track those event...

Many parts of the athlete’s body are important for performance, such as strong muscles and bones; healthy lungs and heart; and several sensory syst...

How can it be that rational adults suddenly find themselves making obscene gestures at drivers who just cut them off? Why do people react with tear...

For the past three decades theorizing and research on the relationship between culture and emotion has tended to concentrate on the seemingly strai...

This valuable compendium advances the understanding of mental health case law, making it highly accessible to practicing forensic professionals. Di...

Emotional intelligence has emerged as an area of intense interest in both scientific and lay circles. Yet while much attention has been given to th...

Capturing the complexities of working with abused children, Heineman explores the intrapsychic worlds of these youngsters and examines many of the ...

Empathic inference, or "everyday mind reading," is a form of complex psychological inference in which observation, memory, knowledge, and reasoning...