Psychology Press imprint: 2143 books
by Charles P. Thompson, Thaddeus M. Cowan, Jerome Frieman
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
This book describes the first comprehensive experimental research program on an individual who exhibits exceptional memory. Rajan Mahadevan, the subject of these investigations, won a place in the Guinness Book of Records for reciting pi to 31,811 decimal places, can learn matrices up to size 20 X...
Issues in Child Health and Adolescent Health
Handbook of Psychology and Health, Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Published in 1982, Issues in Child Health and Adolescent Health is a valuable contribution to the field of Psychology PP.
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Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
This volume explores the well-documented phenomena of memory distortion in a variety of settings, as well as how it can be ameliorated or prevented altogether. The editors have recruited some of the very best researchers in the applied cognitive field to address these issues. These authors examine...
Working with Brain Injury
A primer for psychologists working in under-resourced settings
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
This book provides a hands-on resource for the development of essential skills and competencies in clinical neuropsychology. On a very practical level it addresses a question frequently asked by students, trainees, interns, and newly qualified psychologists: what do I need to know in order to perform...
Connectionist Models of Development
Developmental Processes in Real and Artificial Neural Networks
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Connectionist Models of Development is an edited collection of essays on the current work concerning connectionist or neural network models of human development. The brain comprises millions of nerve cells that share myriad connections, and this book looks at how human development in these systems...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
This is a collection of chapters by some of the most influential memory researchers. Chapters focus on a wide range of key areas of research. The main emphasis throughout the book is on theoretical issues and how they relate to existing empirical work. The contributions reveal that memory continues...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
The study of mental imagery has been a central concern of modern psychology, but most of what we know concerns visual imagery. A number of researchers, however, have recently begun to explore auditory imagery; this foundation-level volume presents their work. The topics covered are diverse, a reflection...
by Robert C. Bolles
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
A study of hedonism could conceivably operate on a massive scale. This book, however, concentrates specifically on the hedonics of taste. The editor notes some important reasons for limiting the argument in this manner. First of all, this is an area of hedonics in which a handful of experimenters...
Tip-of-the-tongue States
Phenomenology, Mechanism, and Lexical Retrieval
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2001
Tip-of-the-Tongue experiences are one of those illusive oddities of human cognition. Like slips of the tongue, déjà vu, and visual illusions, TOTs dazzle us with their subjective strength, yet, at the same time, puzzle us with our frustrating inability to retrieve the desired word. This book discusses...
Basic and Applied Perspectives on Learning, Cognition, and Development
The Minnesota Symposia on Child Psychology, Volume 28
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Although current views of cognitive development owe a great deal to Jean Piaget, this field has undergone profound change in the years since Piaget's death. This can be witnessed both in the influence connectionist and dynamical system models have exerted on theories of cognition and language, and...
The Emergence of A Discipline
Rochester Symposium on Developmental Psychopathology, Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Compiled from papers presented at the Rochester Symposium on Developmental Psychopathology, this is the first book of its kind devoted to disseminating theory and research in the field of psychopathology. Contributions to this text are unified by their incorporation of developmental principles into...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
This innovative volume provides a state-of-the-art overview of the relationship between language and cognition with a focus on bilinguals. It brings together contributions from international leading figures in various disciplines and showcases contemporary research on the emerging area of bilingual...
Working Memory
Loss and reconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Working memory is the cognitive system in charge of the temporary maintenance of information in view of its on-going processing. Lying at the centre of cognition, it has become a key concept in psychological science. The book presents a critical review and synthesis of the working memory literature,...
Artificial Believers
The Ascription of Belief
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Modeling of individual beliefs is essential to the computer understanding of natural languages. Phenomena at all levels -- syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic -- cannot be fully analyzed in the absence of models of a hearer and of the hearer's model of other believers. The heart of this text is the...