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.
Life-Span Maintenance of Knowledge
1st Edition
By Harry P. Bahrick, Lynda K. Hall, Melinda K. Baker
May 28, 2013
This volume describes how well we maintain the knowledge we acquire throughout life. Research traditionally focuses on memory for events that are retained over short time periods that can be accommodated in experiments. This book, by contrast, uniquely describes the evolution of methods suitable ...
Space, Objects, Minds and Brains
1st Edition
By Lynn C. Robertson
December 05, 2012
Lynn Robertson has been studying how brain lesions affect spatial abilities for over 20 years, and her work has revealed some surprising facts about space and its role in visual perception. In this book she combines evidence collected in her laboratory with findings from others to explore the ...
The Creativity Conundrum: A Propulsion Model of Kinds of Creative Contributions
1st Edition
By Robert J. Sternberg, James C. Kaufman, Jean E. Pretz
November 28, 2012
This book challenges traditional notions of creativity as a trait, and brings forward ideas of multiple types of creativity, along with the possibility of development of creativity....
Semantic Priming: Perspectives from Memory and Word Recognition
1st Edition
By Timothy P. McNamara
August 16, 2012
Semantic priming has been a focus of research in the cognitive sciences for more than thirty years and is commonly used as a tool for investigating other aspects of perception and cognition, such as word recognition, language comprehension, and knowledge representations. Semantic Priming: ...
The Tip of the Tongue State
1st Edition
By Alan S. Brown
July 20, 2011
This book brings together the body of empirical findings and theoretical interpretations of the tip of the tongue (TOT) experience – when a well-known or familiar word cannot immediately be recalled. Although research has been published on TOTs for over a century, the experience retains its ...
Rationality and Reasoning
1st Edition
By Jonathon St. B.T. Evans, David E. Over
June 17, 1999
This book addresses an apparent paradox in the psychology of thinking. On the one hand, human beings are a highly successful species. On the other, intelligent adults are known to exhibit numerous errors and biases in laboratory studies of reasoning and decision making. There has been much debate ...
Affect, Cognition and Change: Re-Modelling Depressive Thought
1st Edition
By Philip Barnard, John Teasdale
February 27, 1995
This text, a collaboration between a clinical psychologist and a cognitive psychologist, offers a cognitive account of depression....
Reading and the Mental Lexicon
1st Edition
By Marcus Taft
December 07, 1993
Over the last twenty years a major area of cognitive psychology has developed centred upon research into the issues of how visually presented words are processed so that they can be read and understood. The focus has been on how words are stored in the mental lexicon and retrieved during the ...
Working Memory and Language
1st Edition
By Susan E. Gathercole, Alan D. Baddeley
September 06, 1993
This book evaluates the involvement of working memory in five central aspects of language processing: vocabulary acquisition, speech production, reading development, skilled reading, and comprehension. The authors draw upon experimental, neuropsychological and developmental evidence in a ...