Cognitive Psychology Arena

on Human Memory

Evolution, Progress, and Reflections on the 30th Anniversary of the Atkinson-shiffrin Model

• Edited by Chizuko Izawa

The model of human memory proposed in 1968 by Atkinson and Shiffrin has the distinction of having revolutionized information-processing theory. It catapulated a whole generation...

Published April 1st 1999 by Psychology Press.

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Human Differences

• By Lewis R. Aiken

This text reviews the mass of information concerning the ways in which individuals and groups differ from each other. Reviews of research findings and interpretations...

Published April 1st 1999 by Psychology Press.

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Who Is Rational?

Studies of individual Differences in Reasoning

• By Keith E. Stanovich

Integrating a decade-long program of empirical research with current cognitive theory, this book demonstrates that psychological research has profound implications for current debates about what...

Published March 1st 1999 by Psychology Press.

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Early Social Cognition

Understanding Others in the First Months of Life

• Edited by Philippe Rochat

In recent years, much stimulating research has emerged on children's theories of mind, construed as the understanding of others' intentions, beliefs, and desires. In this...

Published March 1st 1999 by Psychology Press.

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The Emergence of Language

• Edited by Brian MacWhinney

For nearly four centuries, our understanding of human development has been controlled by the debate between nativism and empiricism. Nowhere has the contrast between these...

Published February 1st 1999 by Psychology Press.

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Development of Mental Representation

Theories and Applications

• By Kathleen Tyner, Kathleen Tyner
• Edited by Irving E. Sigel

There is a general and extensive literature in the development of representational thought and symbolic processes because of its centrality in human evolution. However, the...

Published January 1st 1999 by Psychology Press.

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Generating Natural Language Descriptions With Integrated Text and Examples

• By Vibhu O. Mittal

This book discusses issues in generating coherent, effective natural language descriptions with integrated text and examples. This is done in the context of a system...

Published December 1st 1998 by Psychology Press.

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Psychology and Cognitive Science

Special Issue of the International Journal of Psychology

• By Michel Denis

This special issue includes revised versions of papers presented at the IUPsyS Symposium "Psychology and Cognitive Science", held during the XXVIth International Congress of Psychology...

Published November 17th 1998 by Psychology Press.

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The Construction of Mental Representations During Reading

• Edited by Herre van Oostendorp, Susan R. Goldman

This volume presents in-depth investigations of the processes of meaning-making during reading at both local (discourse) and global (general knowledge) levels. It considerably extends our...

Published November 1st 1998 by Psychology Press.

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Knowledge Representation

• By Arthur B. Markman

Knowledge representation is fundamental to the study of mind. All theories of psychological processing are rooted in assumptions about how information is stored. These assumptions,...

Published November 1st 1998 by Psychology Press.

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