Cognitive Psychology Arena

Basic and Applied Memory Research

Volume 1: Theory in Context; Volume 2: Practical Applications

• Edited by Douglas J. Herrmann, Cathy McEvoy, Chris Hertzog, Paula Hertel, Marcia K. Johnson

Basic researchers unlock the secrets of nature; applied researchers unlock the means by which those secrets of nature can change people's lives. Neither basic nor...

Published September 1st 1996 by Psychology Press.

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The Nature of Mathematical Thinking

• Edited by Robert J. Sternberg, Talia Ben-Zeev

Why do some children seem to learn mathematics easily and others slave away at it, learning it only with great effort and apparent pain? Why...

Published September 1st 1996 by Routledge.

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Aging and Skilled Performance

Advances in Theory and Applications

• Edited by Wendy A. Rogers, Arthur D. Fisk, Neff Walker

The term "skill" encompasses an array of topics and issues. For example, individuals are skilled in a variety of domains such as chess, typing, air...

Published September 1st 1996 by Psychology Press.

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Learning As Self-organization

• Edited by Karl H. Pribram, Joseph S. King

A year before his death, B.F. Skinner wrote that "There are two unavoidable gaps in any behavioral account: one between the stimulating action of the...

Published September 1st 1996 by Psychology Press.

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Proceedings of the 1996 World Congress on Neural Networks

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Centered around major topic areas of both theoretical and practical importance, the World Congress on Neural Networks provides its registrants -- from a diverse background...

Published September 1st 1996 by Psychology Press.

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Theories of Mathematical Learning

• Edited by Leslie P. Steffe, Pearla Nesher, Paul Cobb, Bharath Sriraman, Brian Greer

Chemists, working with only mortars and pestles, could not get very far unless they had mathematical models to explain what was happening "inside" of their...

Published August 1st 1996 by Routledge.

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Reading Comprehension Difficulties

Processes and Intervention

• Edited by Cesare Cornoldi, Jane V. Oakhill

Recognizing the characteristics of children with learning disabilities and deciding how to help them is a problem faced by schools all over the world. Although...

Published August 1st 1996 by Routledge.

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Pragmatics and Natural Language Understanding

• By Georgia M. Green

This book differs from other introductions to pragmatics in approaching the problems of interpreting language use in terms of interpersonal modelling of beliefs and intentions....

Published August 1st 1996 by Routledge.

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Human Abilities

Their Nature and Measurement

• Edited by Ian Dennis, Patrick Tapsfield

This volume brings together many of the leading researchers on human intelligence and cognition to address issues including definition, measurement, and instructional design. Its publication...

Published July 1st 1996 by Psychology Press.

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Mathematical Perspectives on Neural Networks

• Edited by Paul Smolensky, Michael C. Mozer, David E. Rumelhart

Recent years have seen an explosion of new mathematical results on learning and processing in neural networks. This body of results rests on a breadth...

Published June 1st 1996 by Psychology Press.

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