Psychology Press imprint: 2143 books
The Believer's Brain
Home of the Religious and Spiritual Mind
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
About 90% of people have faith in a supreme being, but our yearning for the divine, and whatever it promises, involves a large divergence in mental states and behaviors. Some adhere to doctrine, supplication, and fastidious religious practices; others have a strong sense they are part of something...
Cognition and Communication
Judgmental Biases, Research Methods, and the Logic of Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Psychological research into human cognition and judgment reveals a wide range of biases and shortcomings. Whether we form impressions of other people, recall episodes from memory, report our attitudes in an opinion poll, or make important decisions, we often get it wrong. The errors made are not trivial...
Aversion, Avoidance, and Anxiety
Perspectives on Aversively Motivated Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Based on a conference held at the University of Umea, Sweden, these papers discuss the scientific status of the field of aversive learning from historical, affective, clinical, neurobiological, cognitive, neuroethological, and conceptual perspectives. Aversion, Avoidance, Anxiety carries readers...
Social Neuroscience
Key Readings
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Neuroscientists and cognitive scientists have collaborated for more than a decade with the common goal of understanding how the mind works. These collaborations have helped unravel puzzles of the mind including aspects of perception, imagery, attention and memory. Many aspects of the mind, however,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Infancy is a time of rapid growth, when brain plasticity is at a maximum. Event-related potentials (ERPs) are one of the few methods that can easily and safely be used to study this process, and have led to exciting discoveries about human brain functioning and the neural basis of cognition.
Over...
Attention in Action
Advances from Cognitive Neuroscience
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2004
Over the past forty years much work has assessed how attention modulates perception, but relatively little work has evaluated the role of attention in action. This is despite the fact that recent research indicates that the relation between attention and action is a crucial factor in human performance....
Applied Neuropsychology of Attention
Theory, Diagnosis and Rehabilitation
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
The concept of attention in academic psychology has been treated with varying degrees of importance over the years. From playing a key role in the 19th century, it was discarded in the first half of the 20th century, as clinical psychologists claimed it was superfluous to the essential subconscious...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Spatial cognition is a broad field of enquiry, emerging from a wide range of disciplines and incorporating a wide variety of paradigms that have been employed with human and animal subjects. This volume is part of a two- volume handbook reviewing the major paradigms used in each of the contributors'...
by Vesna Mildner
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
This is a book about speech and language. It is primarily intended for those interested in speech and its neurophysiological bases: phoneticians, linguists, educators, speech therapists, psychologists, and neuroscientists. Although speech and language are its central topic, it provides information...
Understanding Developmental Language Disorders
From Theory to Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2008
Developmental language disorders (DLD) occur when a child fails to develop his or her native language often for no apparent reason. Delayed development of speech and/or language is one of the most common reasons for parents of preschool children to seek the advice of their family doctor. Although...
Social Science, Technical Systems, and Cooperative Work
Beyond the Great Divide
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
This book is the first to directly address the question of how to bridge what has been termed the "great divide" between the approaches of systems developers and those of social scientists to computer supported cooperative work--a question that has been vigorously debated in the systems...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Over the last decade research into design processes utilizing ideas and models drawn from artificial intelligence has resulted in a better understanding of design -- particularly routine design -- as a process. Indeed, most of the current research activity directly or indirectly deals only with routine...
Mathematical Reasoning
Patterns, Problems, Conjectures, and Proofs
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2011
The development of mathematical competence -- both by humans as a species over millennia and by individuals over their lifetimes -- is a fascinating aspect of human cognition.
This book explores when and why the rudiments of mathematical capability first appeared among human beings, what its...
Pathways To Number
Children's Developing Numerical Abilities
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
This volume celebrates the 50th anniversary of the famous and influential work of Jean Piaget and Alina Szeminska, The Child's Conception of Number. It is a tribute to those two authors as well as to the entire Geneva school that pioneered the genetic study of cognitive structures in children. Dealing...