Macquarie Monographs in Cognitive Science
About the Book Series
The newly launched Macquarie Monographs in Cognitive Science series will publish original monographs dealing with any aspect of cognitive science. Each volume in the series will cover a circumscribed topic, and will provide readers with summary of the current state-of-the-art in that field. A primary aim of volumes is also to advance research and knowledge in the field through discussion of new theoretical and experimental advances.
Published Titles
Routes to Reading Success and Failure: Toward an Integrative Psychology of Aytpical Reading, Nancy Ewald Jackson & Max Coltheart
Cognitive Neuropsychological Approaches to Spoken Word Production, Lyndsey Nickels (Ed.)
Rehabilitation of Spoken Word Production in Aphasia, Lyndsey Nickels (Ed.)
Masked Priming: The State of the Art, Sachiko Kinoshita & Stephen J. Lupker (Eds.)
Inidividual Differences in the Theory of Mind: Implications for Typical and Atypical Development, Betty Repacholi and Virginia Slaughter (Eds.)
Forthcoming Titles
From mating to Mentality: Evaluating Evolutionary Psychology, Kim Sterelny & Julie Fitness (Eds.)
Subsequent volumes are planned on various topics in Cognitive Science including visual cognition and modelling of visual word recognition.
Delusion and Confabulation: A Special Issue of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry
1st Edition
Edited
By Robyn Langdon, Martha Turner
October 14, 2024
People with psychiatric and neurological illness sometimes say and think the most amazing things. They might believe they are dead; claim to see, despite being blind; or "remember" things that never happened. Historical demarcations between academic disciplines dictate that these are distinct ...
Treatment as a tool for investigating cognition
1st Edition
Edited
By Lyndsey Nickels, Saskia Kohnen, Brenda Rapp
November 11, 2019
Cognitive neuropsychological research studies of people with cognitive deficits have typically been directed either at investigating methods of intervention, or at furthering our understanding of normal and impaired cognition. This book reports on research that combines these goals, using studies ...
Cognitive Neuropsychology Twenty Years On: A Special Issue of Cognitive Neuropsychology
1st Edition
Edited
By MAX COLTHEART, Alfonso Caramazza
January 22, 2019
The journal Cognitive Neuropsychology began publication in 1984. In 2004 a special symposium was held at the annual European Workshop on Cognitive Neuropsychology at Bressanone to take stock of the developments in cognitive neuropsychology represented by the first twenty volumes of the journal...
Tutorials in Visual Cognition
1st Edition
Edited
By Veronika Coltheart
October 11, 2016
In the late-1980s, visual cognition was a small subfield of cognitive psychology, and the standard texts mainly discussed just iconic memory in their sections on visual cognition. In the subsequent two decades, and especially very recently, many remarkable new aspects of the processing of...
From Mating to Mentality: Evaluating Evolutionary Psychology
1st Edition
Edited
By Kim Sterelny, Julie Fitness
August 11, 2015
Covering a range of topics, from the evolution of language, theory of mind, and the mentality of apes, through to psychological disorders, human mating strategies and relationship processes, this volume makes a timely and significant contribution to what is fast becoming one of the most prominent ...
Delusion and Self-Deception: Affective and Motivational Influences on Belief Formation
1st Edition
Edited
By Tim Bayne, Jordi Fernández
June 25, 2015
This collection of essays focuses on the interface between delusions and self-deception. As pathologies of belief, delusions and self-deception raise many of the same challenges for those seeking to understand them. Are delusions and self-deception entirely distinct phenomena, or might some forms ...
Rehabilitation of Spoken Word Production in Aphasia: A Special Issue of Aphasiology
1st Edition
Edited
By Lyndsey Nickels
June 25, 2015
This volume focuses on the remediation of impairments of word production in aphasia. It is restricted to studies focusing on single word production and comprises papers by some of the researchers most active in this field worldwide. The scope of the papers is broad and includes many relatively ...
Speech Production: Models, Phonetic Processes, and Techniques
1st Edition
Edited
By Jonathan Harrington, Marija Tabain
June 10, 2014
Speech Production: Models, Phonetic Processes and Techniques brings together researchers from many different disciplines - computer science, dentistry, engineering, linguistics, phonetics, physiology, psychology - all with a special interest in how speech is produced. From the initial neural ...
Masked Priming: The State of the Art
1st Edition
Edited
By Sachiko Kinoshita, Stephen J. Lupker
July 09, 2013
Masked priming has a short and somewhat controversial history. When used as a tool to study whether semantic processing can occur in the absence of conscious awareness, considerable debate followed, mainly about whether masked priming truly tapped unconscious processes. For research into other ...
Individual Differences in Theory of Mind: Implications for Typical and Atypical Development
1st Edition
Edited
By Betty Repacholi, Virginia Slaughter
May 07, 2013
Over the last fifteen years, developmentalists, cognitive scientists, philosophers, educators and clinicians have considered the acquisition of a theory of mind - the capacity to predict and explain behavior on the basis of internal, subjective mental states - to be one of the crucial cognitive ...
Routes To Reading Success and Failure: Toward an Integrated Cognitive Psychology of Atypical Reading
1st Edition
By Nancy E. Jackson, Max Coltheart
November 30, 2012
Fundamental to this book is an attempt to understand the nature of individual differences in word and nonword reading by connecting three literatures that have developed largely in isolation from one another: the literatures on acquired dyslexia, difficulties in learning to read, and precocious ...
Emotions, Imagination, and Moral Reasoning
1st Edition
Edited
By Robyn Langdon, Catriona Mackenzie
January 11, 2012
This volume brings together philosophical perspectives on emotions, imagination and moral reasoning with contributions from neuroscience, cognitive science, social psychology, personality theory, developmental psychology, and abnormal psychology. The book explores what we can learn ...