Essays in Cognitive Psychology
About the Book Series
Essays in Cognitive Psychology is designed to meet the need for rapid publication of brief volumes in cognitive psychology.
Primary topics include perception, movement and action, attention, memory, mental representation, language and problem solving.
Furthermore, the series seeks to define cognitive psychology in its broadest sense, encompassing all topics either informed by, or informing, the study of mental processes. As such, it covers a wide range of subjects including computational approaches to cognition, cognitive neuroscience, social cognition, and cognitive development, as well as areas more traditionally defined as cognitive psychology.
Each volume in the series makes a conceptual contribution to the topic by reviewing and synthesizing the existing research literature, by advancing theory in the area, or by some combination of these missions.
The principal aim is that authors provide an overview of their own highly successful research program in an area.
Volumes also include an assessment of current knowledge and identification of possible future trends in research.
Each book is a self-contained unit supplying the advanced reader with a well-structured review of the work described and evaluated.
Principles of Memory
1st Edition
By Aimée M. Surprenant, Ian Neath
June 23, 2015
In over 100 years of scientific research on human memory, and nearly 50 years after the so-called cognitive revolution, we have nothing that really constitutes a widely accepted and frequently cited law of memory, and perhaps only one generally accepted principle. The purpose of this monograph is ...
Saying, Seeing and Acting: The Psychological Semantics of Spatial Prepositions
1st Edition
By Kenny R. Coventry, Simon C. Garrod
June 23, 2015
Our use of spatial prepositions carries an implicit understanding of the functional relationships both between objects themselves and human interaction with those objects.This is the thesis rigorously explicated in Saying, Seeing and Acting. It aims to account not only for our theoretical ...
Superior Memory
1st Edition
By Elizabeth Valentine, John Wilding
June 23, 2015
This book examines the nature and causal antecedents of superior memory performance. The main theme is that such performance may depend on either specific memory techniques or natural superiority in the efficiency of one or more memory processes.Chapter 2 surveys current views about the structure ...
Superportraits: Caricatures and Recognition
1st Edition
By Gillian Rhodes
June 23, 2015
As Nixon's unpopularity increased during Watergate, his nose and jowls grew to impossible proportions in published caricatures. Yet the caricatures remained instantly recognizable. Caricatures can even be superportraits, with the paradoxical quality of being more like the face than the face ...
Visuo-spatial Working Memory
1st Edition
By Robert H. Logie
June 23, 2015
Representation of the visual and spatial properties of our environment is a pivotal requirement of everyday cognition. We can mentally represent the visual form of objects. We can extract information from several of the senses as to the location of objects in relation to ourselves and to other ...
Visuo-spatial Working Memory and Individual Differences
1st Edition
By Cesare Cornoldi, Tomaso Vecchi
June 23, 2015
In this timely and comprehensive text, Cesare Cornoldi and Tomaso Vecchi describe their recently developed experimental approach to the investigation of visuo-spatial cognition, based upon the analysis of individual differences. A review of the most influential theoretical advances in the study of ...
Anxiety: The Cognitive Perspective
1st Edition
By Michael W. Eysenck
June 08, 2015
Theorists are increasingly arguing that it is fruitful to approach anxiety from the cognitive perspective, and the empirical evidence supports that contention. The cognitive perspective is also adopted in this book, but the approach represents a development and extension of earlier ones. For ...
Emotional Memory Across the Adult Lifespan
1st Edition
By Elizabeth A. Kensinger
May 21, 2015
Though many factors can influence the likelihood that we remember a past experience, one critical determinant is whether the experience caused us to have an emotional response. Emotional experiences are more likely to be remembered than nonemotional ones, and over the past couple of decades there ...
Hypothetical Thinking: Dual Processes in Reasoning and Judgement
1st Edition
By Jonathan St. B. T. Evans
May 07, 2015
Hypothetical thought involves the imagination of possibilities and the exploration of their consequences by a process of mental simulation. In this Classic Edition, Jonathan St B T Evans’ presents his pioneering Hypothetical Thinking Theory; an integrated theoretical account of a wide range of ...
Working Memory: Loss and reconstruction
1st Edition
By Pierre Barrouillet, Valérie Camos
September 26, 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...
Associative Illusions of Memory: False Memory Research in DRM and Related Tasks
1st Edition
By David Gallo
June 09, 2014
The last decade has seen a flurry of experimental research into the neurocognitive underpinnings of illusory memories. Using simple materials and tests (e.g., recalling words or pictures), methods such as the famed Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) task have attracted considerable attention. These ...
Working Memory Capacity
1st Edition
By Nelson Cowan
June 09, 2014
The idea of one's memory "filling up" is a humorous misconception of how memory in general is thought to work; it is actually has no capacity limit. However, the idea of a "full brain" makes more sense with reference to working memory, which is the limited amount of information a person can hold ...