Distinguished Lecture Series
Mechanisms of Age-cognition Relations in Adulthood
1st Edition
By Timothy A. Salthouse
September 30, 2021
This monograph is the written version of a series of talks delivered as recent MacEachran Lectures at the University of Alberta. The informal style of the lectures, and the inclusion of a relatively large number of figures, has been preserved in order to keep the monograph faithful to the concept ...
Brain Plasticity and Behavior
1st Edition
By Bryan Kolb
February 27, 2017
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 include extensive discussions of behavior. The first to try to address the relationship between recovery from brain damage and changes in the brain ...
The Decline and Fall of Hemispheric Specialization
1st Edition
By Robert Efron
June 14, 2016
Providing a personal overview of hemispheric differences in human cognitive activity, Professor Efron is selective in his presentation of significant issues. To ensure a balanced overview, references are made to many books, review articles, and research reports that present opposing positions. ...
How Children Discover New Strategies
1st Edition
By Robert Siegler, Eric A. Jenkins
May 26, 2016
This well-documented book divides the process of constructing new problem-solving strategies into two parts: discovery of the new strategy, and its generalization to new contexts. By using a trial-by-trial analysis, the authors are able to identify the exact trial on which the new strategy is first...
Human and Machine Thinking
1st Edition
By Philip N. Johnson-Laird
October 12, 2015
This book aims to reach an understanding of how the mind carries out three sorts of thinking -- deduction, induction, and creation -- to consider what goes right and what goes wrong, and to explore computational models of these sorts of thinking. Written for students of the mind -- psychologists, ...
Cognition and Communication: Judgmental Biases, Research Methods, and the Logic of Conversation
1st Edition
By Norbert Schwarz
August 12, 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 ...
The Symbolic Foundations of Conditioned Behavior
1st Edition
By Charles R. Gallistel, John Gibbon
August 28, 2013
The goal of this book is to persuade students of animal learning that cognitive theorizing is essential for an understanding of the phenomena revealed by conditioning experiments. The authors also hope to persuade the cognitive psychology community that conditioning phenomena offer such a strong ...
Synthesizing Nature-nurture: Prenatal Roots of Instinctive Behavior
1st Edition
By Gilbert Gottlieb
March 01, 1997
This volume provides a primarily nontechnical summary of experimental and theoretical work conducted over the course of 35 years which resulted in a developmental framework capable of integrating causal influences at the genetic, neural, behavioral, and ecological levels of analysis. It describes ...
Brain and Perception: Holonomy and Structure in Figural Processing
1st Edition
By Karl H. Pribram
June 01, 1991
Presented as a series of lectures, this important volume achieves four major goals: 1) It integrates the results of the author's research as applied to pattern perception -- reviewing current brain research and showing how several lines of inquiry have been converging to produce a paradigm shift ...
Sex Differences in Social Behavior: A Social-role interpretation
1st Edition
By Alice H. Eagly
April 01, 1987
In presenting an innovative theory of sex differences in the social context, this volume applies social-role theory and meta-analytic techniques to research in aggression, social influence, helping, nonverbal, and group behavior. Eagly's findings show that gender stereotypic behavior results from ...
Stories, Scripts, and Scenes: Aspects of Schema Theory
1st Edition
By J. M. Mandler
August 01, 1984
First published in 1984. This book is an expansion of three lectures on schema theory given at the University of Alberta in the fall of 1983 as part of the MacEachran Memorial Lecture Series....
Visual Form Detection in Three-dimensional Space
1st Edition
By W. R. Uttal
June 01, 1983
Published in the year 1982, Visual Form Detection in Three-dimensional Space is a valuable contribution to the field of Cognitive Psychology....