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Foundations of Evolutionary Psychology

- Edited by Charles Crawford, Dennis Krebs
Published March 18th 2008 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).
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Artificial Psychology

The Quest for What It Means to Be Human
- By Jay Friedenberg
Is it possible to construct an artificial person? Researchers in the field of artificial intelligence have for decades been developing computer programs that emulate human...
Published March 14th 2008 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).
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Aspects of Rationality

Reflections on What It Means To Be Rational and Whether We Are
- By Raymond S. Nickerson
What does it mean to be rational – to reason well and effectively? How does rationality, broadly conceived, relate to the knowledge one acquires, the...
Published November 19th 2007 by Psychology Press.
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Extending Intelligence

Enhancement and New Constructs
- Edited by Patrick C. Kyllonen, Richard D. Roberts, Lazar Stankov
This volume presents research from a variety of perspectives on the enhancement of human intelligence. It is organized around five themes – enhancement via instruction;...
Published October 30th 2007 by Routledge.
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Mental Mechanisms

Philosophical Perspectives on Cognitive Neuroscience
- By William Bechtel
A variety of scientific disciplines have set as their task explaining mental activities, recognizing that in some way these activities depend upon our brain. But,...
Published October 29th 2007 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).
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Intuition in Judgment and Decision Making

- Edited by Henning Plessner, Cornelia Betsch, Tilmann Betsch
The central goal of this volume is to bring the learning perspective into the discussion of intuition in judgment and decision making. The book gathers...
Published October 1st 2007 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).
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Bridging Cognitive Science and Education: Learning, Memory and Metacognition

A Special Issue of the European Journal of Cognitive Psychology
- Edited by Lisa Son, Andre Vandierendonck
The fields of cognitive science and education have worked hard to discover effective principles of learning with the goal of improving educational achievement. And although...
Published September 17th 2007 by Psychology Press.
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Situation Models and Levels of Coherence

Toward a Definition of Comprehension
- By Isabelle Tapiero
The mental representation of what one reads is called a "situation model" or a "mental model." The process of reading causes an interaction of the...
Published July 12th 2007 by Routledge.
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Irony in Language and Thought

A Cognitive Science Reader
- Edited by RAYMOND W. GIBBS JR, Herbert L. Colston
Irony in Language and Thought assembles an interdisciplinary collection of seminal empirical and theoretical papers on irony in language and thought into one comprehensive book....
Published May 30th 2007 by Routledge.
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Arguing About the Mind

- Edited by Brie Gertler, Lawrence Shapiro
Arguing About the Mind is an accessible, engaging introduction to the core questions in the philosophy of mind. This collection offers a selection of thought-provoking...
Published May 14th 2007 by Routledge.
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